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morriswindgate · 06-05-2004, 04:27 PM

AIr conditioners act as de-humidifiers so the cool air stream is moderately dry, however as the case gets cooler you will end up with condensation all over the place. To correct this you will need to have some sort of dehydrating chemical (like the little packs you get in shoes and other products) and this will need to be changed often.
But the truth is that you do not need this type of thing on your computer, unless you are overclocking by a huge amount. The fact is that computers are not fragile or subject to problem with heat as long as they have good ventilation and properly installed heatsinks. Nor will you get any better performance, unless of course you take the temps down with something like liquid nitrogen in order to get it toward super-conducting status.
I am presently sitting in a control room with 8 control computers, 2 PCs, a server rack, telephone system, and in the next room is 6 dual control system computers which run the plant. All of these computers are air cooled, but are the rooms are kept at 70 degrees F. And believe me these computer put out a lot more heat than any PC ever will. But at the same time we have had air conditioner failures where all we did was open the door, and never did we have any problems even though the Control system computer room was above 90 degrees F. (yes I was worried about failure, but they ran this way for over 24 hours without problems until the air was fixed)
So do what you want, but you are really asking for a lot of work and more problems to solve if you do this.

06-05-2004, 04:27 PM	#10
morriswindgate Banned Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: Bakersfield,CA Posts: 7,761	AIr conditioners act as de-humidifiers so the cool air stream is moderately dry, however as the case gets cooler you will end up with condensation all over the place. To correct this you will need to have some sort of dehydrating chemical (like the little packs you get in shoes and other products) and this will need to be changed often. But the truth is that you do not need this type of thing on your computer, unless you are overclocking by a huge amount. The fact is that computers are not fragile or subject to problem with heat as long as they have good ventilation and properly installed heatsinks. Nor will you get any better performance, unless of course you take the temps down with something like liquid nitrogen in order to get it toward super-conducting status. I am presently sitting in a control room with 8 control computers, 2 PCs, a server rack, telephone system, and in the next room is 6 dual control system computers which run the plant. All of these computers are air cooled, but are the rooms are kept at 70 degrees F. And believe me these computer put out a lot more heat than any PC ever will. But at the same time we have had air conditioner failures where all we did was open the door, and never did we have any problems even though the Control system computer room was above 90 degrees F. (yes I was worried about failure, but they ran this way for over 24 hours without problems until the air was fixed) So do what you want, but you are really asking for a lot of work and more problems to solve if you do this.