How should I cool this high end PC?

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skiim

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The PC will be built where there is currently a small door in the middle of the wall. The door separates the office and the uninsulated attic above the garage. The attic is quite hot whereas the office has no AC but is not so bad usually (good insulation throughout house).

The PC will replace the small door and be flush to the wall (thermaltake P5 I think). All wires wil be hidden in the wall, wall mounted monitor etc.

Is there a way to exhaust only to the attic and pull from the office? I'm scratching my head trying to think of ways to cool things the best as possible.

Hardware includes 6850k, titan xp, asus edition 10 mobo.
 
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Yes, 40c as a sink is a little silly for a pc. Generally on normal aircooling you will see processor at ambient+40 and gpu ambient+50 under load. As you can see, you'll be hearing throttling in most cases.

As above, just put it in the cooler office :)
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I'm sure it is possible, but most cases will not be build with this in mind. Your best bet is probably to get a case about the size of your hole, make a baffle around the sides to cover any gaps, and then cut some holes in the side panel facing you with a dremel, and install 2-3 120mm or 140mm fans blowing in. That would almost certainly be sufficient.

However, you might do more harm than good in your office by rapidly exhausting cool air from the room. My guess is that just running the PC in the room and keeping it sealed from the attic will probably result in cooler room temperatures.
 
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No matter the temp of the office - the attic dictates your min case temp. That is essentially your heatsink if you are exhausting air to there. If that is always very warm, there isn't much you can do, other than reposition pc as above.

What sort of temp is it in there?
 
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skiim

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It's gets up to about 40 degrees C

 
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The best idea, probably:
1) Exhaust to the office and intake from the office.
2) Buy an A/C for the office.

40 degrees C as an ambient temp is way too hot for a computer.
 
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Not what I wanted to hear, but I understand I might not have any options....There is a very cool basement directly below that I might possibly be able to run KVM switch to? Or maybe I just plumb AC ducting throughout the house lol...

 
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Exhausting to 40C will not cool off the processor much. The only other thing I can think of is that you can possibly think of doing is using another fan (which is much stronger) to keep all of the warm air up in the attic and keep it out of the case, since I highly doubt a case can could be strong enough. I'm not sure if this will work at all however it could be an idea.
 
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Yes, 40c as a sink is a little silly for a pc. Generally on normal aircooling you will see processor at ambient+40 and gpu ambient+50 under load. As you can see, you'll be hearing throttling in most cases.

As above, just put it in the cooler office :)
 
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