Well, ideally yes. I am in a rental where these things are so poorly maintained that every now and then the drainage gets blocked and these start spitting water. Sooo.. there could be an edge case that water can go in the PC.
Correct. The condensate collects in the drain pan and is either pumped or drained elsewhere. Like I said, water should not be spitting from your evaporator coil.
Yeah, sorry, the wording was a bit confusing for me.
As in, it's supposed to condensate, that's normal, it's not supposed to leak outside the unit because of the tray and pump they have.
But still, I wouldn't risk having basically a hose from the AC to the PC. Pumps can fail at anytime, and if it does, then OP is going to regret it big time.
Just realized OPs unit doesn't use a pump, I guess it's not that terrible, still he should put the bag on the other side of the unit. If it leaks, it will leak from the side of the draining hose, which is the same side the bag is on.
It can, and does to me, if i leave my ac on for more than 20 hour periods it starts to freeze up internally to where there's a block of ice on the radiator. If i let this ice melt while still running the ac (it has a mode that's just a fan) it's slowly melts the ice, while spitting the water droplets out the front.
That means your refrigerant pressure is very low, if you have someone that works with HVACs they can help you top it up, if not, fixing it won't come cheap.
Agreed. Definitely don't risk your PC to it. My comment was just to point out that under normal operation your AC shouldn't be spraying water out off of the coil
Indoor AC unit starts spitting water if there is a clog or the insulation on the pipes is done that leads water in front of the roller blade or if the drainage pipe is even lose.Yes, in such case it can go directly in the pc.
It happened to me at my own house, rain and wind brought along a *single z polythene that lodged in the drainage and over the next couple of days the AC up started vomiting
The metal case will build up condensation on the inside. And if OP turns off the PC the electrical components may also have some condensation. Not worth the risk with the GPU and RAM prices.
There's still moisture in the computer from surrounding ambient air. Rapidly cooling that down causes condensation.
It's less about the moisture from the air coming from the AC, and more about the cold temps rapidly cooling down the rest of the air that is entering the system.
In theory, best practice would be to exhaust the PC air out of the room and then let the AC cool and dehumidify the room itself.
Except that's all dependent on the thermostat being done correctly.
A lot of split systems will have a thermostat that runs the fan at all times even when the compressor is off. This leads to the exact opposite problem because the fan is now blowing moist air into the room making the relative humidity high.
In my 14 experience with split units, I've never had a problem with dryness. I've always had problems with humidity.
That's only true if the system isn't oversized for the area and doesn't short cycle. When a system short cycles all the time the moisture in the air isn't removed.
Air out of an A/C is dry and cold. When cold dry air is pumped in to a warmer environment, the relative humidity drops even further as warmer air has higher vapor capacity. So, lower relative humidity.
What mechanism here do you see leading to condensation?
These types of units can rapidly cool a space, but are generally oversized for the heat load of the room. This leads to them reaching the desired temperature too soon without extracting the moisture from the air.
Most split units like the one shown aren't properly maintained or serviced which leads to buildup on the coil or drain line being blocked leading to condensation that never leaves the space.
Except most people don't properly maintain them leading to mold growth on the coil and drain blockage which makes the moisture never drain out. In addition most of the thermostats for these units keep the fan going as long as the unit is on.
Nope. The opposite actually. Air conditioners were originally designed to dry out air in factories that were making products sensitive to moisture. The cooling is just a byproduct.
I see this thought every time something like this is posted, this will not cause condensation. You need a cool object surrounded by warm air to experience condensation, this is the opposite.
I use to have a open set up, used the mobo box as the stand and jumped the power button pins with a screwdriver, parts just layed out everywhere, hard drive upside down and tipped to the side, I think at one point I was using a WiFi extender to leech my neighbors WiFi it was so slow.
28 with air conditioning. I just hate seeing temps higher than 70 😅 my brother in law has 3080 Asus TUF. It raises to 66 out of the box. My 3080 ventus 3X on the other hand raise up to 78 when there's no air conditioning (Which is still normal) but I wanna make it lower like having a better cooling card.
It's normal for the 80-tier cards to get super hot on idle. Our 3080 Ti cards usually peak at 60°C on idle despite being fully repasted. Sure, my 5080 doesn't even reach 45°C on idle during some 2D gaming, but it's also about the cooler.
> I mean you can even put the computer in the fridge and it will work.
Except that won't work. It heats up the fridge much faster than the fridge can pull heat out. Throwing your pc in an enclosed box is going to be a bad time. Regardless of how cold the closed box was to begin with
there are quite a lot youtuber did that, i mean it will work with some adjustment as well, not just put it in and it works, i mean you still need to get that power and some cable out as well.
like i said its the aftermath that always the concern.
For some reasons I am still waiting for Renaissance of The Finals, maybe they will hire some folks to fix their fundamental ideas and they will stop pushing e-sports into the game with online barely enough for surviving...
Yeah they need to fuck off with the esports leave that for structured games like cs or valorant. It's a really fun game but the mid to low skill players are struggling cause they won't balance aeound those lobbies and matchmaking is fucked with how dead the game is
Awaiting a follwup post on how something shorted thanks to condensation.
Just because the unit is blowing dryer air doesn't mean the colder-than-ambient parts won't condense lingering ambient humidity. And split systems are way lest efficient than window or central hvac at pulling humidity out of the air
My front room has an 8ft wide, nearly floor to ceiling window. It'll hold 45-50f up there in the winter. I've always wondered what I could do if I just ran my hdmi/USB cables under the door...
To many on this sub do not know how fun it is tinkering, or just challenging themselves. On my main builds, the temps don't exceed 50c on the GPUs (5090 and 3080, water cooled). So I get liking thing to be cooler, after all its cool. Heck, my one setup is capable of sub-ambient cooling, and yes, people argued with me (and also didn't understand how condensation works).
Me too. I don't get how condensation works.I asked the AI and told it to explain it to me so many times and I still refuse that conversation will happen when the PC is still hot. It should only happen when the PC is idle or off but the AI tried to explain it and I didn't get it.
In the end, I removed the setup cuz I can't afford a new one now 😅 plus, I found a stable undervolt configuration that doesn't crash on The Finals, COD Beta, Battlefield 6. It made the GPU stay in 65° under load.
Condensation is tied to your "dew point". So, using a quick dew point calculator, and my current ambient conditions. 68f(20c) and 49% RH. Means that my dew point, aka the condition at which condensation can occur, is 48.1f(9c).
Basically, with an A/C unit its impossible. Because no matter how much air you direct to the PC, your still cooling the air around it too. So, you are constantly dropping the temp of the air around the PC, when off, dropping the dew point.
I mean, yeah, pump cold air into your PC and it will get cooler.
You've now dropped your CPU from a perfectly acceptable temp to another perfectly acceptable temp while depriving your room of cold air. What modern hardware setup even overheats nowadays?
The actual strategy is to reroute the exhaust air out of a window so it doesn't heat up your room.
Any amd cpu with a quality cooler, they will manually overclock until they get hot, thats just how they work now. (I have a 7700x and a noctua dual tower cooler, yet i still hit 90° without throttling
Ah yes, THE FINALS - such a goated and underrated game. Probably one of the best shooters I’ve ever played, and it gets so many things right. Embark is doing a really good job across pretty much every aspect, from the monetization and art direction to the lore, gameplay, and even the smallest balancing details. You can really tell how much care goes into the game.
Too bad it released in such a super bad state and scared so many player away.
(Just came back a few seasons ago and having a blast - literally can't stop playing it.)
He had a screen. The humidity outside came through the screen and the tube he had would accumulate condensation. Eventually one day his machine wouldn't boot.
Have fun when it breaks! I used to work in a server farm where we had a separate backup generator just for the AC. The room ran at a constant 88 degrees Fahrenheit. There’s a reason why we never ran AC pipes/ducts directly to the servers.
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That's one way to reach The Finals