Re: will water cooling help lower ambient room temps? good systems for a newbie?

On Sep 29, 9:08 pm, "John Weiss" <jrwe...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"markm75" <markm...@xxxxxxx> wrote...
I have a problem with heat in my small 9x12' office space.. 3 lcds
(24") kick off heat.. my thermal take armor series case has the p5e3
board with q9650 3.0ghz cpu, 1600mhz ocz ram.. icy dock sas/sata bays
x 4 (12 removable drive bays worth), then my dual 4870 cards, and the
psu is an 850watt unit..

Typically its 79 to 85 degrees in this room, at the elevation of my
shelf with my system..

I have an arctic cooler on this, its too hot (cpu), i was going to
replace that with a 100CFM 120mm air cooled fan / sink, but i think a
water cooler may be better.. its 114F behind the exhaust on the video
cards..

Would adding a water cooler to this system help the ambient temps any?
I actually dont think it will, it will just draw the heat out?

Heat is heat.  You can move it around by various means, but the amount of energy
in it is the same.

Hopefully, your GPU fans exhaust outside the case.  If not, more/bigger case
fans are in order, or the CPU coolers just have more hot air to work with..

If you move more heat out of the case, it will go into the room.  If the water
system is more efficient at moving it out of the case (i.e., the radiator is
outside the case and has a good fan directing the hot air away from the case
intake fans), it may stabilize at a slightly lower case temp and a slightly
higher room temp.

OTOH, if the heating/cooling system is relatively efficient at keeping the temp
constant in that room, the case will benefit from the greater amount of heat
transferred to the room, the furnace will have to work less, and the air
conditioner will have to work more.

So, what are your current CPU core and GPU temps?- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

Gpu temps on the 4870's are about 70 and 60.. but when i set them to
60% fan, about 60 and 55..

CPU temps with case side off on thermaltake armor series seem to be
about 55C idle.. but i'm putting in a Xigmatek HDT-S1283 cooler in
place of the arctic cooler, hoping it will help, with retention
brackets..

.

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