[Trahn_Lee_Liao]

Rigged this up the other day.. Made a HUGE difference....Cost me $20.00 and about an hour of my time..

I still need to clean up the odds and ends and re-run the cables and tie wrap things up nice again.. but hey! It works.. I am hooked into the central air of the house through a wall vent.. Granted the air does not run 24/7 in the house, but I can run the suplemental fan and pull cool/cold air in from the basement where the furnace/ca system draws its air from.. When the CA does kick on.. Things just run that much cooler.

I went from 40 celcuis at idle down to 16/17 celcuis.. Under load temps dropped as well.. From 60's down to around 30+/- a few degrees. I am running an amd 64 3700+ cpu.. We all know those run hot.. but I have a Zalman cooler on it as well.. (Thanks SSP Redy - I heard you say you got great results with one on teamspeak.. so I tried it and it is great.)

Here is the machine. The wall plate is affixed over the vent.. Then I used a 4" adjustable elbow adapter into the wall plate.. From there 4" flexible duct tubing that connects to aother 90 degree adjustable elbow.. into a 4" adapter that is affixed to the side of the case.

[Bonez]

friend of mine is running a dual ducting hose, one in front of his case the other out the back(120mm fan hole in the back, custom 5 1/4 drive cover, takes up two slots) and has it rigged to a board that fits inside a window sil, with filters at each end. case is also airtight(more or less).

case temp in winter fans off(depends on outside weather)= -10degrees
case temp in summer with fans on = 5degrees

[Trahn_Lee_Liao]

I am sure with a window unit piping into it.. Hell Yeah, you could get better temps.. The distance from my CA unit to the area where I have my computer has got to be 50 or 60 feet if not farther... There is certainly to be some thermal loss in that distance..Therefore, not as efficient as a window unit 10 feet away or less.

Oh..and I could put a window unit in behind the wall that is behind my computer.. There is plenty of space.. However, I don;t think I would see much benefit on doing that.

[Bonez]

no this is just air, it's cold here, so he's using the relatively cool outside temprature.

basically a natural cooler.

what he has is a peice of plywood that has the filters and pipe ends attached to it.

[Drayu]

my only concern with that bonez is that it would be pulling in LOTS of moisture, and that ain't good.

[Bonez]

Originally Posted by Drayu

my only concern with that bonez is that it would be pulling in LOTS of moisture, and that ain't good.

hense filters.

[Drayu]

filters for moisture? or is it filters for moisture? Cause I would think that you would need a dehumidifier to do that. But hey, what do I know

[Trahn_Lee_Liao]

With Central Air. The air that comes in through the vents is dry. With just piping in outside air.. I would think that would be more moist. Since any water in it is not condensed out.

I don't know of any filter out there that removes moisture....

[Drayu]

That is what I was talking about Trahn

[EricDraven]

haha trahn that is awesome, definetly worth a tech tv(old tech tv) interview