Minnesota + Overclocking

[yoink23]

I was just thinkin. I live in Minnesota, and in the winter it is often near zero degrees F. I was just drooling thinking of water cooling with a tank outside in that. (Actually it's pretty cool inside then too!:D ) Well its been fun thinking about winter when it is 100 degree heat index right now. Stupid power keeps goin out! Anyway, have any of you done watercooling and used the great outdoors as you personal refrigerator?

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Yoink23
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Welcome to the forums! I live near Chicago, and was thinking the same thing today. I was thinking have a radiator in the front of the case (like many people do), and have a duct going from the window to there, then another duct exhausting from the case out the window. I'd have to keep the drives outside the case though, they don't fancy the low temps. Some people put their entire case outside, but personally, I don't like that idea.

[wildbilly2k]

well i live in phoenix arizona and it gets bout 115 degrees here in the summer so i half to relie on my air cooling cause i can aford watercooling and it wouldnt work ut here anywayz cause it is so hot!!!!!!!!!!

[SickBoy]

Hey neighbor! I haven't tried the outside thing - no watercooling to do that with. Joe put up an article on the frontpage last winter about ducting air from a crawlspace onto a CPU - and it works pretty well, you just gotta filter it. I imagine putting a radiator in the crawlspace would work just as well. I'd keep the fans blowing through it though. I might try the ducting thing this winter.

SickBoy

[Thelemac]

I remember there being lots and lots of mosquitoes in Minnesota. Bloody land of 10,000 lakes, a mosquito breeding ground every one of 'em!

You could do a search for "Dirt Cheap Supercooling", last winter a Canadian stuck her computer outside.

You'd probably also just want to make sure you had some anit-freeze in there (I'm sure you're saying "No ****, Sherlock)...

I can't wait for winter, myself. An overclockers season, winter is. :)

[brennan77]

My family may be moving to Minnesota. I'll have to try it out. Louisiana is pretty bad for overclocking

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[IAMCanadian]

ooooo great white north canada is great I plan on doing that too with my water cooling rig but also ducting the cold air into the case tofor other chips and such. I was able to hit the 0 degrees celcius with a chrome orb last winter so i assum it would be much the same this year ^^.