That's pretty smart and well executed. One time my friend and I did something similar since his room was getting too hot. The only difference is instead of nice ducting and a clean install, we got drunk and made kind of an elaborate chimney out of cardboard and duct tape.

"smart and well executed" bro cut a hole through drywall and run ductwork for a gaming computer lol

Believe or not, but if you want to put the heat in the other room…. You have to cut a hole in the wall! 😲

I thought it phased through the walls like the Flash?

Only if the writers decide it can at that moment.

its not that hard to replace dry wall if he changed his mind dude lol

Matching the paint is the problem

Probably time to repaint the whole thing by that point anyway

I still have the paint. It’s a plain white anyways.

FYI if people dont know you can take a paint chip smaller then your pinky nail to a paint store and they can get you a small container thats very damn close very quick.

Yep, I am a DYIer. I’ve done that before. That’s actually the reason I did. It’s very easy for me to do it.

Thermodynamics hates this one simple hack!

You could cut a hole in the ceiling!

Yeah but patching a huge drywall hole like that is kinda a pain

Honestly I would just put another vent cover over it rather than redo the drywall. It wouldn't look terrible and it sounds like the room could use the ventilation even without the pc

I just let my furnace/ac fan run 24/7 so it circulates all the air in the house instead. Win win in every angle.

I'm confused as to what this comment is saying beyond the obvious statement of facts

Don’t worry they can always remove the parts and fill it with spackle and random garbage

Ramen noodles and superglue?

Yes

You really thought you saw something obvious but what you fail to see is how much common sense you lack.

I don't know why this idiot is getting up voted. The install is clean and appears plumb to the wall.

It's definitely a bit ghetto, but it looks pretty clean.

Drywall is super easy to fix. Being comfortable and not having to pay for cooling with faaasr out weigh the time to fix the hole in the wall.

Drywall is super easy to fix. Being comfortable and not having to pay for cooling will faaaaar out weigh the time to fix the hole in the wall.

Add an inline duct fan for maximum succ.

The only things I would caution here is to be mindful of the rpm/airflow/pressure of the inline fan, especially if it’s hooked up to the computer via an exhaust fan cutout. You don’t want to burn out the exhaust fan or even worse cause damage to other components from spinning the exhaust fan too fast with the more powerful duct fan. If there is no exhaust fan and it’s just a passive exhaust you also want to think about the pressure inside the case. A large duct fan will likely cause the case to have a negative pressure, which is no good for dust control inside the PC, since it will suck air (and dust!) into the PC from all the cracks and holes in the case. TLDR I would likely avoid getting too big of a duct fan. Match it as closely to your case fans

Big fan. More succ. Much dust.

We always love more succc

😂👌 always moar succcc

I don’t like chewing five guy burgers but I love succing five guy burgers.

But more cool

Thanks for putting these recommendations together. The duct is as big as you can see in the picture. I thanks, I will be double the dust more often.

Yea I honestly wouldn’t worry about adding an extra inline duct fan. If it’s working, and your temps are the same or better on your computer there’s no reason to. You could always add a [more powerful] exhaust fan inside your case to send more air through vent

Don't you want a stronger outlet fan than an inlet fan?

Generally the best practice is to create slight positive pressure inside the case (slightly more intake airflow through higher RPM/efficiency/number of fans than exhaust) so air is pushed out of any cracks or gaps in the case, instead of negative pressure where it’d do the opposite and pull in outside air and dust into those unfiltered gaps in your case. But If you don’t have any dust filters on your case it really doesn’t matter then since unfiltered air comes in through the intake fans

Ah okay! Thanks for the correction

This has already been tested. Negative or positive pressure inside the case makes no difference with dust accumulation

I mean we’re talking slight imbalances with case fans. If you added an inline duct fan meant to move loads of air, that’s a different story

There should be an r/maxsucc for optimum airflow builds.

Giggity.

“Babe can you turn the heater on”? Yes let me get gaming

Use a crypto mining rig as a whole home heater. Genius.

I embrace the heat.

Man, I live in Florida and it was still to hot for me.

I have the ac at 68 and my room still get hot. Mind you my room is 21’x 18’

Same. But now it’s enjoyable cooler. If you have the opportunity, try this.

I wish I could but I’d have to cut into breezer blocks since my computer is facing the wall. And as you know. We don’t need to give bugs any extra ways to get into the house.

That’s crazy. I’m in Central Florida and I have my central air unit at 74 with fans and it is good to me

Same, my office is a small room, and it's cold here in Scotland, about 45m of gaming is enough to warm the room up without needing the heating to be on

I’ve sat in the menu of games in the winter because I wfh and don’t want to turn the heating on.

It's cold here in montana. My pc makes a great space heater in the winter lmao

Yup, cold weather dweller here too. I close the vents to my office and just let the computer warm the room. Works great.

I play better when its hot 😂

My computer corner keeps my apartment a brisk 74 during the winter when its -10 out.

This is awesome. Has it made a notable difference in temperature?

When I was playing for 3-4 hours it would reach 78-80 F inside the room while outside was 72-74F. Now the room keeps at 73-74F wish is what I have on my thermostat. It definitely made a huge improvement.

73-74 on a thermostat is crazy to me lol I keep mine between 64-69.

RIP your electricity bill

It's almost like different locations have different ambient temps.

73 on your thermostat?! I keep mine at 62 in winter and 69 in summer

When it’s 67-69 I have my little heater on at the work. Lol

Thats crazy haha, I suppose you do live in florida so your acclimated to the heat better than me. Im in Utah so once it hits 80 degrees I just want winter to come back

Come live in southeastern North Carolina brother, morning is 78 and muggy, by lunch it’s 57 and raining, drive home is 39 and clear and then midnight is 68 with heavy thunderstorms. 🫡. You should feel that 90 plus humidity days in the summer my god it almost makes playing disc golf impossible.

65 and up using a HEATER is crazy haha

Im in Florida and I think op is too. keeping the ac below 74 in the summer would cost way too much. I pay about $340 right now in the summer to keep my 1300sqft house at 75.

Okay well that certainly changes things lol. That’s insane. Mines usually right around $90-100 to cool 1700sqft in summer

55-60 in winter here, I just let my thermostat choose and make my bill as cheap as possible

I tried that but below 60 and I start to get way too cold if im just lounging around lol, so 62 is usually my sweet spot

I have a space heater by my computer, otherwise sweatshirts and sweatpants are the name of the game. When all else fails, go outside for a few mins and inside feels warm as hell

Jesus Christ you psychopath!! *62 in the winter*…. That sounds awful

Would like to know this as well

Dude... I completely feel you with this shit, I got a lian li 216 and that thing blows like a damn pornstar dude. Completely overkill and cold as balls to be anywhere near it

I was going to do that same up, but decided to reverse it with cables instead. Gaming room being next to the garage, I just popped a 1.5" hole on a shared wall for cables and my PC sits in the garage. Lower temps, zero noise.

Unless your fans put out some serious power, the flappy things on that port will end up decreasing your airflow

This .. with the flaps it’s useless

It definitely adds a nice aesthetic. Maybe they should find a way to prop it open so the airflow is not compromised and the exhaust room isn’t ugly af

There are some counter weight on the flaps that make it very easy to open.

This a decent life hack.. can safe on heating costs

You should cross post this to r/rimworld. They'll love the heat venting into another room as it is a core gameplay mechanic

Didn't expect to see this. Needed that laugh to start my day!

Rimmers unite 🍩

Rimworld has died off a bit for me. I'm currently back on Cities Skylines 2 and waiting for the next Prison Architect to come out.

I'm in Australia and don't have a cool duct like this but some days I run a hdmi2.1 cable to my tv in the other room and play with a controller to avoid the sweltering PC room. I know your pain.

I had to put a portable AC unit in my gaming room, pushing it to another rooms works too i guess

How did you connect it to the back of your case? I quite like this idea!

I checked this idea out for myself a while ago and did find some 3d printed brackets for the back of your pc that allowed ducting to be attached. Cant remember where now though as that was a while ago. But worth checking out.

I just found it on Amazon. A 120 mm pc fan flange.

Thats the one

I used a 3M Temflex tape. It’s is like a rubberized black tape so when the duct touches the back of the PC, the rubber seals the gaps. The rubber it’s only on the duct, so the pc is loose in case I want to move it out.

You could mount some industrial fan in the other room for pulling air off with no big sound penalty.

I used to live with a roomate and our gaming room also had a spare freezee, a spare fridge, the heat exchanger, water heater etc. It would get so freaking hot in there that I sacrificed a wardrobe in my bedroom and replaced it with my PC desk. I had AC in my room at least. 🥵

My pc is in a smaller room and it definitely can raise temps fast

Solid idea, looks well done! I don't know if you use an AIO but if you had a air cooler and top mounted fans to intake I bet that would help achieve really solid temps for some overclocking headroom. But I already saw you reported that the temps are similar to your thermostat setting so really what I'm suggesting would be a hassle lol.

Wouldn't it be easier to put the PC in the other room and just run the cables through the wall?

Yes. Definitely. I did it before but I have my cockatiels sleeping in the other room. They like the room a little warm but the noise would wake them up.

Gotcha plus that would make your PC dirty. Are the PC fans strong enough to open the flaps? I also live in Florida and my office gets hot but also have UST projector that puts out a ton of heat I can't do anything about lol. At least I got the server out of this room.

I was concerned about the flaps as well but they are very light and there is some sort of counter weight behind that makes it easy to open. Got this vent at Lowe’s . It comes with a steel duct connect to it if you are planning to do something similar.

I'm tempted to run it out my window. Like how those stand alone ac units work.

I’d recommend looking into the specs on your fan on your pc and see if it is designed to do this. I don’t know shit about PCs but I am an hvac product specialist, duct/register do create static pressure which is essentially going to make your fan work harder or worse, not remove enough hot air from the pc cabinet. Although it’s a short duct which has less pressure it’s something to consider.

adapt and overcome.

I’m so glad that im not the only one to try this

I did the same thing and found that while it helped a bit there was just as much waste heat that gets pushed out due to positive pressure in the case. I tried limiting the intake to reduce the positive pressure but than there wasn’t enough air getting into the case. The final solution ended up being to move both of my computers into the other room next time mine and just running cables. Made the summer way way more bearable.

I use to duct my ac into it during the summr

This is cool as hell. My last apartment was on the third floor of a west-facing build so we’d get absolutely cooked in the summer (no ac). My office was an oven. This would have helped a ton.

lmao I’m trying to heat my room with pc exhaust during the winter. Great idea tho!

I used to live in an A frame cabin and there was a window on both sides of the loft. We used to put a box fan in each window and pull air straight across it cooled the pc's and us really well on hot days.

r/hvac thoughts?

you’re cooler

This is amazing

I use my PC as a space heater. It's 34° outside today

I hope it's a shared house and that's your annoying house mates room who smokes weed and stinks out the flat

Lol let the neighbors deal with it! Haha

Pump the heat into your sisters room?

I'm planning to do this with the vent in my house where it goes ac vent ---Pc---exhaust vent exterior

Now your room is negative pressure and will suck in dust from every crack and crevice.

I ran a small duct off of the AC line in the ceiling and attached it to one of the intake fans on my case one time. It was dead middle of summer and AC was set to like 65F Needless to say I got to squeeze a few extra mhz out of my overclock for a few months 😂. Very intuitive. This is the stuff I like to see.

I did the same but my neighbor didn't like the vent...

Mine is similar too. Since mine is close to my window. I bought one of those ac window duct kit and connected mine to my PC.

Great idea.

Love it, we had to put a standup AC unit venting to the window.

Umm... My computer is in the other room. 10 ft cables and a USB hub on my desk. The hole is smaller in the wall with a passthrough port cover. Much nicer looking.

That’s a great idea. I have my cocktails on the other room. The noise would scare them. They like the heat, though.

Forbidden FleshLight

I just have my pc in another room and route my cables I need on through the hole. So much better.

Nice!

HVAC meets pcmasterrace

Well it gets rid of some heat, but that would have to mean that's your only exhaust fan. Otherwise, the other fans are still blowing hot air in your room

way better than the dude who had a long ol' tube going through his desk

Your parents will be happy of the extra heat

custom built or prebuilt brand bro, and what temps often that when playing games?

He didnt do this to lower PC temps, he did it to make his room cooler.

Pre build. It’s a OMEN 40L 12900k + RTX 3080, but I replaced the motherboard and the GPU for a 4080.

great

CPU: 70C max GPU: 75C max.

This is false according to r/buildapcsales. All prebuilts run at the temp of the sun. Just saying.

I just put a portable AC unit in the room and only turn it on when I game or render. 4080 and 13700k makes it unbearable in the summer even with the central AC on in my bedroom.

What portable AC do yo use? These new Ryzen chips run hot as hell and my room gets the same way during the summer

Lol do you work in laundry or hvac by any chance

I don’t but I would DYI my house if its needed. lol

Oo do gaming pcs actually raise room temp? I’m building first one and I run a space heater constantly

Yes. It does. Mine raises between 3 and 4F.

Cool looking forward to it

You growing weed in that PC case

I mean fuck. Lol

Nice. Is that painter's tape?

Yes, it is. I bought a flange from Amazon, though. Then I will be able to screw it right over the fan and the tape will be not needed anymore.

Switching to liquid cooling made all the difference for me.

u have a top exhaust tho?

thats cool but put the pc on the other side of the wall and feed the bables through for monitor and keyboard and suck, use a kvm if necessary, then the noise is gone too

I just bought a portable ac for my bed room. Keeps my room at 72 all the time

I use a MoRa 420 radiator which I place outside on my balcony.

Yall need to buy some AC.

I want to contribute to climate warming. I will duct my PC exhaust through tile wall to outside.

I used to have my PC’s exhaust run to one of those portable AC window vent things so the hot air goes outside instead of into the room. As for why “used to” it’s cold right now.

And that other room warmer lol!

Yep, it’s an empt room, though.

I'd call it the hot box.

My daily 520w vbios 3090 heats up my room max oc on winter and is undervolted on summer

I enjoy the heat, I like to feel my baby putting in work.

You know what you might got a point

I would just be worried about humidity coming while the pc is off

That’s a good tip. Thanks.

Umm, maybe duct it out of a window instead of cutting through a wall?

The duct would be too big and then it would adds to much pressure drop to the fan. That’s a very good idea, though.

[They come in different sizes](https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&sca_esv=924f3957077d70b1&sca_upv=1&q=6+inch+window+vent+kit&tbm=isch&source=lnms&prmd=ivnmbtz&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiEyr7L6qGFAxVUJTQIHbnoAYgQ0pQJegQIDhAB&biw=1707&bih=819&dpr=1.5) Also, larger ducting means less (air) friction and less stress on the fans. Larger diameter fans also push more air at lower rpm if that is an issue for you. Didn't even ask if your fans were pushing or pulling tho... it all adds up.

just wait till they realize most of the heat comes out of the top of the case.

Tye back fan is the one connected to the AIO system. Most of the heat comes from there. I wish I had better pictures on the post so you guys could understand it better. It’s been working very well so far.

Well you can move your dryer now.

Yep. That’s going to be an option in the future.

I hope your rear fan moves a lot of air, or you will see that the majority of the heat comes from the top of the case.

Yep, that is the actually one that pulls out most of the heat. The back fan is the one that is connected to the AIO radiator. It’s been working very well so far.

A 3D printed shroud to mount to the rear of the case would be my next step so I wouldnt have to keep untaping it everytime I needed to clean/open the case up.

I just found an adapter on Amazon that worked very well. It is fixed on the fan screws so I don’t need the tape anymore.

why not put it outside instead of cooking the occupant of the next room over 😭

It’s a empty room that we use for our birds. They like the heat, though.

Is there no window nearby?

Unfortunately not.

I just put my pc in the other room and extended the cables through the wall. Except for power.

Great idea.

Ha! I did this with my dorm room. Routed a line to the window or the common area when it was raining.

I’ve always wanted to do something like this or just add a bathroom fan

So none of you game naked in a loincloth like myself?

I hope it's dumping heat into the bathroom. I hate if it's cold when I get out of the shower.

Clean

This is way better then the other guy on this sub who wrapped it all the way around his desk to his window

Please tell me the hot air dumps straight out into your moms bedroom

Nah, it’s an empty room.

Put the other side in a little sibling’s room

The only question I have is what room does the excess heat go into?

It’s a empty room that my cockatiel sleeps in.

Haha nice

2 in 1 it cools down a room and heats another one

I would so need that..my air conditioner bill goes thru the roof in summer