Installed a vent into the desk with a high powered fan underneath.
Figured we joked about it enough, but this thing keeps my office snug & warm throughout winter without having to expend a single extra cent in heating.
I’m unclear on what this accomplishes, genuinely interested to understand though and possibly misunderstanding the entire setup. What’s the difference between this and just having the machine vent into the room as usual?
Hot air gets trapped under the desk, which decreases cooling efficiency. The vent and the fan spread the hot air upwards, where it was already going anyway. So in terms of heat output into the room, not much has changed, but the ‘feel’ of where the hot air is certainly has. It now feels a lot cozier in there and my cpu stays a bit frostier.
Air will stagnate in a confined space - even with the PC fans, as they’re designed to move air, not generate pressure.
I find it really annoying that pc makers defaulted to fans instead of compressor wheels, which can move the same volume of air with less noise, in my experience… Technically regular fans are less noisy for the same CFM but I’ve found in most PC’s you need far more fan to achieve the airflow needed because they lack static pressure.
When we getting home inference AI water heaters as GPU coolers?
Need to train a LoRA for a long hot shower.
Ah, it’s always good to see a fellow Logitech Z-5500D owner in the wild!
And what do you do in the summer?
Leave the door open and point (another) fan at it from outside for circulation. It helps that it’s basement level. Stays nice & cool in the summer unless it’s 30°C+ for weeks on end.
And yes, I’m an actual basement dweller. No, I don’t live with my parents.
Nice! I would’ve done it high on a side/back wall, just to not interfere with desktop space.
In fact, I put a compressor fan in the top back of a desk cabinet for the same reason, and wired it to a USB plug so it ran from the power on the back of the PC.
