Is outside air a good Idea to use for cooling...?

[Angry]

I am wondering on this, but also thinking I may just very well answer my own question.

In my room I have one and only one rather large window. Right now the weather is very cold outside, but I leave my window open cause for some reson my room gets very hot if I dont, either from my TV, 2 monitors (soon to be 3) and lights. Or just lack of ventalation. So..Since the air is cold outside and you can feel it seeping into the room, Im going to rearange my room in a few days and was thinking if I moved the PC's in front of the window to grab the cold air, it would help to get them running cooler. But, will I have to worry about the components in the PC's drawing moister?
The one pc has alot of fans, actuay working on it as I type this, but the other is ASUS A7V-133 1.05 isnt even in a case, just sits on a table, its down right now cause I fried the original proc for it and have a 1.2gig in layaway.

Heatsink setups..1.2gig will have a 7200rpm fan on a aluminum heatsink.
Slot A Athlon 550 has large fans on its hunk of aluminum heatsink that push more air that I think is really needed as they are as loud as the 7200rpm fan.
I may come back later and post a pic of the arrangement of my room.

That is if I dont chop another one of my fingernails off...

[flounder43]

My experience is so long as your parts in your pc are warmer than the air you are sucking in, there will be no condensation. Condensation requires something being cooling than than the air, like a cold can of beer, for example.

Here is my winter cooling duct results...

[Angry]

Ah okay, Was checking cause, well no one wants to slowly torture a pc...or is there? ;)

Man...this gonna be somework...

[seeker]

Hey Angry,

I agree with flounder, putting cool air on warm components will not produce condensation. It's when you put warm air on cool components that you get that effect. Just make sure that you leave all the fans /equipment turned on for maybe 20 minutes or so after you close the window so everything can get back to ambient and not collect moisture from the warmer air. my .02
P.S. I leave my front door open sometimes when it gets chilly down here and the machine loves it. Then my ole lady gets up and yells she's freezin:)
I'm gonna buy her some warm jammies

[NeoMoses]

If you check out my other post 33C Full Load AIRCOOLED!!! (http://forums.overclockers.ws/vb/showthread.php?threadid=59778) you will see that is what I have done. It works extremely well! I lowered my load temps 20C!!!:D Also, cold air doesn't hold nearly as much moisture as warm air, so I doubt if condensation will be a problem.

[Rooster]

I made a board the same height as my window and as wide as a dryer duct. then shut the window on the board. ran the duct to the back of puter. fan blowing cold air right on cpu. did wonders for temps. mainly ai night when its like 10 outside.

[CrystalMethod]

I'm still hesitant to do it. It's not the CPU I'm worried about, it's all the other components, that I don't use all the time, so they have time to hit room temp or just above. My CD-RW is one example. It's being powered, but it's cold to the touch. If I went to burn a CD, I'd be worried about the condensation.

[FerrariF50]

Originally posted by CrystalMethod
I'm still hesitant to do it. It's not the CPU I'm worried about, it's all the other components, that I don't use all the time, so they have time to hit room temp or just above. My CD-RW is one example. It's being powered, but it's cold to the touch. If I went to burn a CD, I'd be worried about the condensation.


Yeah I know what you mean...like few days ago it was -7 C outside...Yeah I had the air duct right over my PII 450 LOL but the rest of my stuff got very cold like my Cd Writer and My Dvd Rom drive...I got a little worried so I stoped..