A PC is pretty much a space heater these days. Which is not great when it gets all hot and humid outside.
Many suggest just getting a small AC but why not remove the heat from it’s source and put it outside?
I imagine the vent being much smaller than the big AC tube pictured.
In summer, it takes energy to dehumidify and chill the air inside your home. You’re talking about using a vent to blow conditioned air from inside your home to outside your home. Every cubic foot of air you push out of that vent is replaced by a cubic foot of outside air leaking in from the environment.
Unless you have a second vent to bring in external air to your case, isolating it from your interior air entirely, you will be burning energy in the form of lost, conditioned air. Depending on how much best you’re producing and how much air you’re moving, you migh use less power with the vent closed than with swapping interior and exterior air.
If I were considering this, I’d consider water cooling. Two little pipes going through the wall instead of a large vent.
Warning about this is airflow, condensation, I would be afraid the moisture outside would destroy my oc or the fans wouldn’t work well enough and would overheat anyways
Humidity really isn’t a huge issue for modern electronics. Actually, dry air is more dangerous. And that could be solved with a computer fan at the window.
I whouln’t replace the existing PC cooling or connect the air pump directly to it. Just something to suck out the hot air behind it. Even just a vent on the desk above the area might work.
Like a box fan above the computer connected to the tube that goes outside… Wait that actually sounds really easy and cheap.
Yhea
You can get inline duct fans for not too much, but they do make duct adapters for the fan holes in the case.
I’d recommend running some stress tests with just the tubing to see if it’s sufficient to cool your system. You don’t want so much airflow that you’re causing your AC to run more often.
