Thanks for the quick answers, I really appreciate it. I hadn't really put much thought into insulating the tubing, but that makes complete sense. My mind is usually running in a thousand different directions, so gaining heat through the tubing walls probably would have COMPLETELY slipped by me.
Since the little lady isn't home tonight, I hooked up my dryer hose to the air conditioner. It's dropped my temperatures an additional 10C from the plain ol' watercooling setup. The dryer hose is ran from the air conditioner output to the fan on the front of the radiator. It's actually got my temps equal to ambient at the moment and it hasn't risen more than 7C even at full load. I saw it dip below ambient when I allowed the computer to sit and do nothing, so I will probably have to watch out for condensation. Yay, I just checked again and it's BELOW ambient temp!! My temp for the room is 22C and the CPU temp is 19C! Wow, this is cool! I expected temps just above room temperature!
I am really looking forward to sticking a radiator to the front of the A/C unit. I think if I can keep the water from freezing, it will cool me down well below ambient.
Again, thanks for all your help guys. I'll be sure to post pics and keep track of all the items I use, as well as an approximate build and time cost. I'm pretty sure I'm nowhere near the first to do this, but I'd betcha there is someone out there who really wants to do it, but thinks it would be too difficult (like me a year ago).
Have a great remainder of your weekend.
-Scott
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