I want to see if I can bring down the temperature in my room a little bit. I have central AC in the house. It is set at 72 F and it works, but my room still gets warm because of the computers especially after I have been gaming for a few hours. I have two vents that bring in cool air and one that takes the hot air out. I also have two box fans and I was wondering if I could use these to cool the room down more? If the mods feel a need to move this to another forum if it is not meant for here please do it.
With A/C, there are booster inline ducts made for such purposes. However, there are some simple things you can do: o Power off CRT monitors when not in use ---- eg, don't run overnight o Deal with solar gain ---- more dependent on which way your window faces ---- however a simple roller window blind can help considerably o You have 2 cool-air intake & 1 hot-air exhaust ---- depending on design it could be the exhaust that is restrictive However, before you go sticking fans on your exhaust intake... o They need to be higher cfm than that already moving thro it o PC fans are terrible at static pressure - ie, moving air thro ducts Thus PC fans are not a particularly good solution here. That is unless your hot-air duct out is 6" to free air (I doubt it). If machines are not used intensely, it can be worth using a power-saving program - for laptops there is "Rain". I can't recall if a similar program exists for desktop CPUs - suspect it does since CPU-throttling is not just mobile specific. Hotter rooms reduce your cooling system effectiveness thro reducing the temperature delta between heatsinks & air-temp. So reducing the room temperature has benefits to equipment. PC fans are not the same as A/C (duct) fans however A low-noise PC fan produces 0.1-0.2" of water-pressure, a good duct fan produces orders of magnitude greater pressures.
