Watercooling for better room temperature?

Switching will not help to keep your room cool. Read up some on the Law of Conservation of Matter and Energy.

Overall it would slightly increase the ambient temp in your room. Nothing dramatic or noticeable, but you would be drawing in more energy to power your WC setup.

On a different note, I would interested in seeing how you stuff a GTX into a Lanboy...it won't even fit into a 180 without removing the upper HDD bay.

I have to agree, water cooling would not help with your room heating up issue. It would however cool your PC better if done properly. Also what are the temps of your PC? I didn't see any kind of exhaust fan in the rear of the case just curious is all. Don't feel bad though my room does the same thing if I keep the door to my room closed for several hours my room becomes a steam room . Only suggestion i can give you is if you are able to open a door/window of some kind.

hah yea sorry... that pic was taken um... 5 days ago...

I have since removed the 2 x 7800GTX's and sold them to another THG member... currently using a placeholder Radeon x550 again, and I did install a new exhaust fan (the last one crapped out)... it's an antec fan with blue LED's (like in the front) it's really neat nice glow on the inside without the total brightness of the UV CCFLs I had in there before... I may add CCFLs back in eventually, but not soon...

your cpu is the major part to blame for heating your room there

i had a celeron d 2.4 a while back - my room was cool till i got that chip and it aint even that hot!

Unless you put the rad in a different room. It's been done.

Not necessarily. Replace a fan-rich air cooled box with a dual reserator rig with one cae fan and you might burn less A/C on cooling.

Must have skipped on a few physics classes

Anyhow "cooling your room" to cool your room will be a great solution. Open windows and placing huge fans to get the air flowing annoyed me for a while but I got used to that in time and my CPU temp also dropped with 5 degrees so everyone is a winner

That desire takes away the option of distancing the rad.

Possible...but I would like to see that done with a Lanboy, 8800GTX, and light modding. The Reserator is over 23" tall and the Lanboy is 16.5"

:? What are you talking about underclocking? Whatever it is, it won't make the 23" tall Reserator fit into a 16.5" tall Lanboy case any easier.

The point is that he wants it inside the box. More than likely he wants it inside the case for easy transportation to LAN parties. Water is a great alternative to air cooling, but it is not as good as air for applications when the system will be moved frequently. I'll also say that there are alternatives for reducing power/heat in the system with passive WC like the Reserator or moving the radiator outside the room in a traditional WC setup, but I don't believe those solutions meet the intent of the OP.

Switching to water cooling will not change the heat output of your system. It will however result in lower temps of the components since the heat dissipation is at much faster rate compare to an air cooling. So like I said the heat output will not decrease, so the room temperature will rise no different than with air cooling.

I have the same room with 10x12 but I placed my pc by the window with the back end facing outside. In addition I have a window fan that helps direct the warm exhaust air out the back of the case and out the window. So my room is able to maintain at a tolerable temperatures thus helps with my pc to stay cool.