how did I bring my amd 2000 to 13C....or should I worry?

[Dr.Mhz]

Ok I am in Montreal and in the winter here we go from -10C
to -30C.

Now because of the cold ,I hv double stack windows(6ft by 5),so i hv to open 2 glass to get outside.

So i put a dryer tube in between the windows and attach it to my side case fan,,,
and i made it travel a long way ,so its not too cold or wet,.....

result in -10 weather = case 22C and cpu 25C
result in -25 weather =case 16 and cpu 22c

if bring the tube over the cpu fan then I get

cpu 13C at -25(outside) if i open the outside at the other extre of the window then I get " 1C " but i thout it was too cold for a NAtural cooler

condensation shoudl I worry?????????????
...only outgoing air fan power supply


thk

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LOL thk for your great advices...

And abut the summer,well to keep quite I guess Ill hv a 2200xp in winter and a 2000xp in the summer..

but the best games are in winter
and the OC on a amd 1.67ghz can it run higher then 1800mhz?

or i am close to the fried zone?

[bushmaster]

Just make sure a wayward pigeon doesnt get sucked into your PC case looking for a free place to warm up. That or a couple of adventurous squirrels LOL

[NDD]

[tony_j15]

Condensation can be an issue. Check the case regularly to make sure there is no moisture. If you put a piece of foam in the pipe, it would catch the water and still let the air through.

[Grentarc]

nice... now OC that CPU!!!!

oh, about that condensation issue - place some bags of silica (you know the lil packets that come in HDD bags and the like) they will absorb the moisture out of the air.. just need to replace them every now and then.

[OpK Chowdy]

How do those bags work? Do you place them in the general vacinity of something that'd be affected by condensation? Or would you put it on the thing that needs to be dry?

[Grentarc]

well... they draw moisture from the air.
if you were sending moisture laden air down a tube.. then put them in the tube to catch the water as it pases by... if you were worried about a CPU then uhh.. i dunno if you could put it on the cpu.....

[Bovon]

Originally posted by Grentarc
well... they draw moisture from the air.

Yes they do...but not quick enough to remove moisture from moving air. It would help, but would not be the complete answer.

[OpK Chowdy]

you could always buy a moisture alarm?

[SLX]

You can install your cpu like a peltier watercooled machine, except you dont need the pelter water cooled machine. There is a web site out some were.

BTW... what happens when you hit summer?

[Dr.Mhz]

LOL thk for your great advices...

And abut the summer,well to keep quite I guess Ill hv a 2200xp in winter and a 2000xp in the summer..

but the best games are in winter
and the OC on a amd 1.67ghz can it run higher then 1800mhz?

or i am close to the fried zone?

[causticVapor]

You can run it at 1.8GHz in the winter and the summer, with adequate cooling and a good motherboard that delivers stable voltage.

[chubtub]

If you have alot of air moving through the box then you should be fine or if you have some length on the tube. So that the moisture will form or freeze before it hits that comp.

Athough I would hate to see your heating bill after cooling it that way considering it was -30F last night. I just spent $70 to seal my dryer outlet on my house because air was coming in.

[Max Cat]

So I'm not the only one trying to utillize the bitter cold outside, I live in Wisconson, and set up a fan duct to the window. It's working pretty good too with simular results as Dr Hrz.

About the condensation its pretty dry in the house this time of year but if your running a humidifier I would keep it out of the same room as your computer. For the snow/rain problem I put a drip loop in the duct, you know, like the water trap under your sink, with a small drain hole at the bottom, and if it's really wet outside I pull the duct inside. All though that hasn't been a problem since the east coast is getting all the snow, WI has gotten little to nothing, I'm glad I sold that snowmobile.

[missiveusa]

If you're really serious about filtering out moisture, you could attach a moisture trap from an airbrush set up. It looks like a test tube with a filter element inside and a small drainage button on the bottom. It's designed to trap out moisture from air compressor to paint reservoir when airbrushing. Not sure how you could attach it to you air intake....but hey, you've gone this far, might as well go that extra kilometer...