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xSnowmaNx

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If I had watercooling, would I be able to reduce the ambient temperatures in my room? I have an air setup and I can definitely feel my computer pumping out a lot of heat. But my thinking says no this is not possible because the heat must be disappated from the components to somewhere else, and that somewhere else is the water and the radiator then eventually passed on through to the air. Would this be correct?
 
xSnowmaNx said:
If I had watercooling, would I be able to reduce the ambient temperatures in my room? I have an air setup and I can definitely feel my computer pumping out a lot of heat. But my thinking says no this is not possible because the heat must be disappated from the components to somewhere else, and that somewhere else is the water and the radiator then eventually passed on through to the air. Would this be correct?
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Your H20 cooling will be directly affected by your ambient room temps. Your computer may not pump out as much heat because your system will be cooler. As your room temps drop so do the temps in your system.
 
I am not too concerned with how my ambient room temperatures affect computer temperatures, I'm more concerned about the other way around. So if I had watercooling, there would be slightly less heat released from the computer to affect my room? That doesn't really make sense though.
 
xSnowmaNx said:
I am not too concerned with how my ambient room temperatures affect computer temperatures, I'm more concerned about the other way around. So if I had watercooling, there would be slightly less heat released from the computer to affect my room? That doesn't really make sense though.
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Ambient affects everything in the computer. If your ambient room temp is 85F good luck with any cooling except phase change.
 
xSnowmaNx said:
I am not too concerned with how my ambient room temperatures affect computer temperatures, I'm more concerned about the other way around. So if I had watercooling, there would be slightly less heat released from the computer to affect my room? That doesn't really make sense though.
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Same heat just different places.
 
I think a more efficient power supply or underclocking/volting your cpu/gpu would decrease the ammount of heat your box puts out. My working area seems a little cooler after changing my old PS for a Seasonic.

Watercooling gets the heat away from your processors quicker and more efficiently, but it's still the same ammount of heat.
 
That's what I thought. Because watercooling doesn't have any real active cooling element, it just moves the heat from one place to another but I have heard from some of my friends that 'Oh your room would be cooler if you had water cooling'. But that didn't make much sense to me. Thanks for clearing that up.
 
xSnowmaNx said:
That's what I thought. Because watercooling doesn't have any real active cooling element, it just moves the heat from one place to another but I have heard from some of my friends that 'Oh your room would be cooler if you had water cooling'. But that didn't make much sense to me. Thanks for clearing that up.
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I hate to be a smartass, 2+2 =4
 
xSnowmaNx said:
That's what I thought. Because watercooling doesn't have any real active cooling element, it just moves the heat from one place to another but I have heard from some of my friends that 'Oh your room would be cooler if you had water cooling'. But that didn't make much sense to me. Thanks for clearing that up.
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I think your friends were implying that your room would be Kooler. ;)
 
xSnowmaNx said:
Because watercooling doesn't have any real active cooling element, it just moves the heat from one place to another
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Active cooling element eh?
Where can I get one of these magic cold-makers!
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Sorry for being a smartass but comeon, basic physics here? Any type of cooling is just moving heat around.
 
About the only way to cool your computer and not affect your ambient temperature is to vent the hot air out of the room as part of the cooling process. In a water cooled environment, the perfect solution would be to have a continous stream of water from say a well passing through the waterblock and then being routed back outside. I have actually seen this in action once....seems to be the only way to have a totally computer heat free ambient room temp.

....and 2+2=4 is correct.....heat is heat is heat no matter how it is disbursed.
 
It will actually probably be warmer. Everyone forgets that the pump is adding to the total heat. Phase changes aswell. That heat goes somewhere, and that somewhere is into the air in the room.
 
your room 'would' be cooler is you watercooled the system and used geo-thermal cooling ( i know some people who cool reef tanks with over 10,000w of lighting and pumps dumping in them to 78F using this method. )

but this is not easly done as you have to do alot of digging , need a large pump and its not exactly easy
 
I believe some of us here are missing the first law of thermodynamics, conservation of energy. Watercooling doesn't magically make the heat disappear, it just dumps it somewhere else (component to water and water to air). Being that watercooling is more efficient at this than air cooling, you're going to have higher room temps. You're just going to have to find a way to dump the heat somewhere else outside the room as a refrigerator or AC unit does....
 
MajorDomo said:
About the only way to cool your computer and not affect your ambient temperature is to vent the hot air out of the room as part of the cooling process. In a water cooled environment, the perfect solution would be to have a continous stream of water from say a well passing through the waterblock and then being routed back outside. I have actually seen this in action once....seems to be the only way to have a totally computer heat free ambient room temp.
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Open-loop watercooling is fantastic especially if you can get glacier cool water.
 
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