Ethernet Switch Box help...

[Gavrushka]

So it's the damned corridor. Every visit to this forum sees my belief in my own intellect eroded a little bit further!

Just done video, of temps. - my M2 drive is located under the 3070, so it does get a little warmer than other components.

Desktop video of HWMonitor

[red assassin]

Am I wrong in thinking running air across a radiator can cool the water within below ambient? Isn't that a basic physics principal, or am I having another suboptimal moment? - No other components get as cool as my CPU, but none of them have water cooling.

So maybe it really is a cool corridor*, but I do prefer PJK's wormhole idea...


*It's not a warm corridor...

I think you're perhaps confusing a radiator with an evaporative cooler, which absolutely can cool something below ambient. However, if your radiator is functioning as an evaporative cooler, you should be concerned!

As others have said though, I think the most likely explanation here is just that digital temperature sensor calibration is often a bit out, especially for something like a CPU where you're really just interested in making sure it doesn't cook itself, not in being an accurate measure of room temperature.

[Gavrushka]

Now that made sense, thank you. Yeah, I knew water could freeze solid at above zero air temperature when a wind blew off the more excitable water molecules, and in my misguided mind air over radiator fins would do the same thing.

So it's simply the air being drawn in from the corridor (temp 14 Celsius) or slightly inaccurate temperature probes...

...or a wormhole.