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Computer Heats Up Room
Howbadisbad
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During long gaming sessions I find that my room heats up, while this is normally not a problem during the winter I find it to be uncomfortable during the summer.
Obviously I could just crank up the AC but that would increase the electric bill quite a lot as I don't need to cool the entire house just to counteract the heat from my PC.
I think that some sort of portable AC just for my room would do but I would like to come on here to see if anyone else experienced this and solved it before I put down money on something like that.
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Yeah me too, my room gets super hot in the summer. Thinking of getting a portable AC.
In the morning when my PC has been off for awhile, it's usually pretty good.
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Simple box fan running on high in door of room would do about as well as a window ac unit. As long as your house has ac.
Just need to circulate air better sounds like to me. Ceiling fan works very well as well, since heat rises...pushes air around pretty good. Both my wifes and my computer running in same small room with ceiling fan works pretty well.
If you put that much heat out that a fan of some type can not handle it (in room not system) ...may be time to look at better cooling option in system as well , liquid maybe. That much heat sounds like it would be a bit high to me.
power consumed = heat output
It's conservation of energy.
What hardware do you have? And have you overclocked anything?
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So I had to give up gaming during the summer for a few years.
After I got married, I upgraded my system to a single card and moved the tower from out from under the desk, heat issues are now gone.
There are many factors that have to be considered before large expenditures are made. Maybe all you need is some sort of floor fan to move air around the room better.
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Simple solutions to try before buying anything:
1. Is it on carpet? Take it off carpet.
2. Do your exhaust fans blow directly on you or just a few inches from wall? Relocate PC so that there's more air between it and large objects, this will allow better airflow and reduce trapped air which doesn't mingle with cooler air. For example move it to the side of your desk and 6-8 inches away from the wall.
3. Clean it. A dusty PC is a hot'n'bothered PC.
4. Use a standing fan and place it near the A/C vent so that it can direct air where you want it.
5. Put a bunch of ice cubes in a ziplock bag and put it on your head like a hat.
Yep. Sounds right on the money. OP, would help if you posted specs. Some manufacturers heat up more than others.
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What's the point of blowing around the heat in your room, it will still heat up the room. You either want to blow the heat outside, or bring some cold air inside.
You owe me a coffee for that last line.
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First Law of Thermodynamics. Sorry. Crank that AC up.
what kind of case are you using might be time for a case upgrade with multi fans or watercooling i went got a new case and it has worked wonders i went with a coolermaster stormstriker and added a couple more fans to it
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lol.. heat generated is heat generated, no case or water cooling or fans is going to change that.
I have gaming buddies that it is just a given I won't see them on hot days in their parts of the country. This is fairly common issue, and any solutions require extreme creativity. I went so far as to place my PC in the room opposite of where I play and closing the door, but.. times have improved and I just turn on the air conditioning now.
Best of luck!
What else is any cooling application for other than getting rid of heat??? Kind of the point....
I keep my PC in a separate room, and adjacent storage room.
Drill a hole through the wall to storage room
Put AC in the storage room
pipe blows hot air to the outside
total cost 500$ for a cheap AC, 100$ for cable extensions
Enjoy working in a silent room that is not overheating
ROFLMAO it does not 'get rid of the heat' it moves it from inside the case to outside the case this results in ....... "Computer Heats Up Room". You can then move the heat outside with an AC or mix the air up with a room fan etc .
Yep computers add heat to the room they are in, as do monitors and televisions etc. Usually it is not noticeable but if your set up is burning enough watts it will be as noticeable as having a small electric heater.
Another one...really have you never seen a good liquid cooling system at work? Any setup that is like a small heater has something wrong with it.
Nightlite is right - you can't just magically get rid of the heat. All you can do is move it. And that's what "cooling" does - it just moves the heat from one area to another.
Even your AC, as magical as that apparatus is - is just moving heat from indoors to outdoors.
So, if your PC is using XYZ watts of power, that gets released as heat - regardless of how good your PC cooling is, that amount of heat is still getting dumped into the room, and heating up the room. In fact, the better your PC cooling is, the worse the room heating will get, because it's at least insulated somewhat inside the PC case.
The only ways around that are
- to use less power in the first place,
- to add more cooling to the room (AC, fans, more insulation so the AC you have works better, something),
- move the computer outside the room,
- or rig up computer cooling that dumps the PC heat outside the room (possible, but requires some carpentry skills and if your a renter your landlord may not appreciate it).
The cheapest option is probably to just open the door to your room, and maybe point a fan out the doorway.
I wil caution you against portable AC units. That will cost you more in electricity than just cranking up the AC you already have would, they have vent lines that have to go outside, and those vent lines put off a good deal of heat if they aren't done right - so much so that it could pretty much cancel out all the cooling you get from the unit. And they aren't exactly quiet.
I do have one in a server closet - the vent had to be ducted through the ceiling, and it works ok for that server closet, only because I have to keep the door shut and locked. Keeping the door open would have been a much less expensive solution.
ROFLMAO it does not 'get rid of the heat' it moves it from inside the case to outside the case this results in ....... "Computer Heats Up Room". You can then move the heat outside with an AC or mix the air up with a room fan etc . Yep computers add heat to the room they are in, as do monitors and televisions etc. Usually it is not noticeable but if your set up is burning enough watts it will be as noticeable as having a small electric heater.
Another one...really have you never seen a good liquid cooling system at work? Any setup that is like a small heater has something wrong with it.
Every setup is like a small heater. Actually, exactly like a small heater when you get down to it.
Liquid cooling has two areas where it excels over air cooling:
- Water has an amazing thermal capacity - a little bit of water can absorb a lot of heat. It takes a big fan moving a lot of air to equal the amount of heat transfer that a little pump can accomplish with just a little bit of water flow.
- Second is that water can be easier to direct - a bit of tubing is a lot easier to route and install than some kind of elaborate air ducting system.
Water cooling has absolutely no bearing on the amount of power used in a system, or on the amount that a system would heat up your room. It's just another method of moving thermal energy. If a system is using XYZ watts of power, that XYZ amount of heat is going out into the environment if you are using air cooling or liquid cooling or any kind of cooling.
Thermodynamics is amazing.