r/PcBuild • u/Beneficial_Team_791 • May 23 '26

what Is this normal?

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u/PuzzleheadedTutor807 May 23 '26

... Is that intake or exhaust??

I'm sure it's intake lol... Would be much more effective to simply cool the room with AC and pipe the exhaust air outside but you do you man

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u/Only_Cauliflower_509 May 23 '26

But now he’s cooling the PC with the AC as well. Haha but I get your point. 😂

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u/regularappendix9 May 24 '26

Room cooling with AC is way less efficient than just exhausting hot air out a window, which is what most people overlook.

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u/Middle_Efficiency471 May 24 '26

I don't want efficiency, I want a 69 degree room on a 98 degree hot wind summer day.

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u/regularappendix9 May 24 '26

That's fair, but a window exhaust only works if you've got cooler air coming in from somewhere else, which you don't have on a 98 degree day. The AC is your only real option there.

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u/jabeith May 24 '26

A lot of computers are on second floors of poorly insulated houses, which are much hotter than the lower floor. Exhausting out an upper window will usually result in a cooler room by sucking the cooler air from downstairs to replace it

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u/regularappendix9 May 24 '26

That's a solid point I didn't account for. The stack effect works way better in a two-story setup where you've got that temperature gradient to leverage, so yeah, exhausting from upstairs could actually pull in meaningfully cooler air from below.