Am I in danger of condensation

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At stock no over clock,

I want to run stock unless Im gaming ect.
Any danger?
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you will start forming condesation fairly quick as the dew point in most rooms is around 8 of 9 degrees and that will raise if you'd room temps are greater than average of around 22 degrees
 
If you go here you can check what the dew point of your room would be.Linky

But like others say, theres a good chance that there will be condensation inside your case.
 
Someone want to spec me a fan controller, I need it to do 6 fans and have a flat front due to my PC having a door.

For the life of me I cant find one, I can find one that will do 4 fans, do I need to buy 2...
 
You say you are using a direct feed from outside, what do you mean by that? You're cooling to below ambient, so that radiator is going to be doing sweet FA anyways (except heating the water up!).
 
Right, my RAD is under my desk, boxed in there is a vent on the wall behind the rad, Im using a push pull config to drag the cold outside air through said RAD.

Turning off the fans will stop it being so cold.

Sorry if I confused ya, direct outside air feed.
Like this, drawing is very basic, its a little "more"

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You could just blank off SOME of the vent - you'll get the benefit of low temps without going so low as to risk condensation. If I was you I'd still be worried about first thing in the morning after a frost, since your rad will have been cooling the loop all night, and you could still have developed condensation inside.
 
You could just blank off SOME of the vent - you'll get the benefit of low temps without going so low as to risk condensation. If I was you I'd still be worried about first thing in the morning after a frost, since your rad will have been cooling the loop all night, and you could still have developed condensation inside.

See, thats been my issue all along, basic fix and I just cant see it, thank you, now all I need to do is make something I can slide a cover over the vent with, off to the shed :)

A insulated cover type thing is what I'm thinking
 
Insane temps there, overclock the **** out of it and block some of that vent off to increase your temps to double figures. Should hopefully be ok for condensation then
 
It must be very cold in Sunny Scotland to get those temps. What is your external temperature when taking these readings?
 
It must be very cold in Sunny Scotland to get those temps. What is your external temperature when taking these readings?

when it was 1c idle CPU temp it was -3c outside.
I now have an insulated cover though

I'm not opening it unless I'm pushing boundaries with my vcore for benching @ 4GHz and above.
 
If you fancy a bit of an electronics project, how about this...

You have a great cooling source, however, you have to protect against the loop dropping too low, and risking condensation. Let's say for the sake of argument that you're happy to keep it at 15C or so...

Set up a temp monitor of the FLUID in the system, which then feeds into a microcontroller connected to a stepper motor. When the temp goes above 15C, the cover slides open a bit more, if they drop below 15C then the cover closes a bit more. It'd give you all of the benefits with zero drawbacks.

P.S. If any OcUK'er nicks this idea, please post piccies!
 
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