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How are you able to overclock makes no sense

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pcslookout

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I am always hearing about people's computer's overheating the pc room and wanting to get a portable ac for that one room. How are you people able to overclock your processor safely if it is in such a room that gets very hot so quickly ?
 
Originally posted by: shabby
Umm whoever said that was full of shit, that simply doesnt happen.
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Maybe I made it sound to over dramatic but I noticed a lot of times a pc room with high end computers get a good 5 to 10 C hotter than other rooms with no computers.
 
Good aftermarket cooling, good cable management, lots of fans, side panel off and a rotary fan blowing at the side.

It's currently 26C ambient here, running 100% load FAH CPU & GPU. Temps:

CPU: 56C
CORES: 67-70C

For every degree increase in room temp, my CPU temps go up by about 1.5 degrees.

When my ambients go above 33C I will likely have to turn down my OC.

EDIT: BTW, temp outside is 20C currently.
 
Originally posted by: Cutthroat
Good aftermarket cooling, good cable management, lots of fans, side panel off and a rotary fan blowing at the side.

It's currently 26C ambient here, running 100% load FAH CPU & GPU. Temps:

CPU: 56C
CORES: 67-70C

For every degree increase in room temp, my CPU temps go up by about 1.5 degrees.

When my ambients go above 33C I will likely have to turn down my OC.

EDIT: BTW, temp outside is 20C currently.
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So basically what you are saying is everyone has to turn down their overclocks when the summer gets here but are fine during the winter months ?
 
Originally posted by: pcslookout
Originally posted by: Cutthroat
Good aftermarket cooling, good cable management, lots of fans, side panel off and a rotary fan blowing at the side.

It's currently 26C ambient here, running 100% load FAH CPU & GPU. Temps:

CPU: 56C
CORES: 67-70C

For every degree increase in room temp, my CPU temps go up by about 1.5 degrees.

When my ambients go above 33C I will likely have to turn down my OC.

EDIT: BTW, temp outside is 20C currently.
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So basically what you are saying is everyone has to turn down their overclocks when the summer gets here but are fine during the winter months ?
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In my current situation, that is exactly correct.

In the winter I have the heater vents closed and covered in this room, the PC & TV heat the room up enough. Sometimes I still have to open the tiny window.
 
You don't even have to overclock, Mid/Full Tower PCs exhaust enough warm air to increase the room's temperature. I have a computer room with just 1 PC, when the PC is not on, room is normal, probably around 27C. Once PC is on and has been running for a few hours, then you enter that room, you can really feel the increased temperature, probably to 30C. We live in the tropics and unfortunately the AC in that room is broken. Of course, overclocked PC generates more heat, and hotter room. The PC in that room is an Athlon X2 4400+ at stock with good aftermarket cooler.
 
Originally posted by: pcslookout
So basically what you are saying is everyone has to turn down their overclocks when the summer gets here but are fine during the winter months ?
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This is correct if your overclock has been tuned to be stable for ambient temperatures which happen to fall at a threshold somewhere between your comfort level for winter versus summer temps.

If your overclock is tuned (i.e. not crazy aggressive) such that ambient temps as high or higher than those in your computer room during the summer do not pose a problem then you have not created trouble for yourself.

I tune my overclocks to have enough margin against ambient temp fluctuations in excess of those my house experiences in the winter/summer cycles.

For what I like to do with my computers it's just not worth risking a system reboot at the wrong time just to have an extra 100MHz overclock and that is about what you get if you are tuning for winter ambients versus summer ambients on a quadcore.
 
Even my standard non-overclocked computer heat the room up pretty well...all depends on how good your cooling is and how fast it dumps it outside of your case.
 
Originally posted by: pcslookout
Originally posted by: Cutthroat
Good aftermarket cooling, good cable management, lots of fans, side panel off and a rotary fan blowing at the side.

It's currently 26C ambient here, running 100% load FAH CPU & GPU. Temps:

CPU: 56C
CORES: 67-70C

For every degree increase in room temp, my CPU temps go up by about 1.5 degrees.

When my ambients go above 33C I will likely have to turn down my OC.

EDIT: BTW, temp outside is 20C currently.
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So basically what you are saying is everyone has to turn down their overclocks when the summer gets here but are fine during the winter months ?
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No.... I run mine 365, and central AC does just fine.....
 
my computer heats up my bedroom so much that I only run it during the day even in the winter (unless it is really cold then I run it 24/7 to heat my room) and usually have the window open March-October un-overclocked
 
Originally posted by: Markfw900
Originally posted by: pcslookout
Originally posted by: Cutthroat
Good aftermarket cooling, good cable management, lots of fans, side panel off and a rotary fan blowing at the side.

It's currently 26C ambient here, running 100% load FAH CPU & GPU. Temps:

CPU: 56C
CORES: 67-70C

For every degree increase in room temp, my CPU temps go up by about 1.5 degrees.

When my ambients go above 33C I will likely have to turn down my OC.

EDIT: BTW, temp outside is 20C currently.
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So basically what you are saying is everyone has to turn down their overclocks when the summer gets here but are fine during the winter months ?
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No.... I run mine 365, and central AC does just fine.....
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I'm jealous, I want A/C.
 
to start off my bedroom with my PC is easily 5 degrees warmer than any other room or hallway in my house.

how i am able to overclock is by adjusting my vcore/fsb according to my max distance to TJ MAX.

in the winter, i would OC to about 1.35vCore and 3.55ghz on my Q6600 and get core temps of 60-65C load (running F@H 24/7)
in the summer, i would lower that OC to about 1.25vVore and 3.2ghz on my Q6600 and get core temps of about 55-70 (still running F@H 24/7)

of course my AC isn't on 24/7 so my summer temps range quite a bit sometimes up to 70C when its really hot without the AC and when i'm not home, and sometimes a bit cooler to about 55 with my AC on when i'm home.
 
Originally posted by: Cutthroat
Originally posted by: Markfw900
Originally posted by: pcslookout
Originally posted by: Cutthroat
Good aftermarket cooling, good cable management, lots of fans, side panel off and a rotary fan blowing at the side.

It's currently 26C ambient here, running 100% load FAH CPU & GPU. Temps:

CPU: 56C
CORES: 67-70C

For every degree increase in room temp, my CPU temps go up by about 1.5 degrees.

When my ambients go above 33C I will likely have to turn down my OC.

EDIT: BTW, temp outside is 20C currently.
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So basically what you are saying is everyone has to turn down their overclocks when the summer gets here but are fine during the winter months ?
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No.... I run mine 365, and central AC does just fine.....
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I'm jealous, I want A/C.
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I'm same as Markfw, i live in Florida, so no AC = deadly hot

solid OC's all year round - just for a few months in winter, i dont have to run AC or heat, as it only dips to around 60F
 
Heat output also depends on PSU efficiency as worse efficiency translates directly into more heat. It also depends on the components and whether or not you load the PC 24/7 of course. On an all integrated PC, the total power draw might not reach above 100W from the wall, in which case the heat output won't be enough to heat up a moderate-sized room. But if you've got power-hogging quad cores and 200+W GPUs running F@H 24/7, you might be looking at 600+W draw, which, even with 80Plus PSU, would be over 100W heat production by PSU alone.
 
I used to set my thermostat to at my old townhouse to 58-62 deg F in the winter and 70-74 in the summer. The computers were on the second floor. The thermostat was on the ground floor.

It got over 80 degrees in the computer room for most of the summer. I had to turn down my OC's from May through about September.
In the winter it was usually around 65 or so degrees. That made for some nice Overclocking.



Since that time, I've moved. I have a basement now. Even with my Server, HTPC, and 2 PC's (as well as stereo, speakers, TV, 3 CRTs, and 24in LCD), the temperature in the rec room usually stays comfortably below 70. (AC set to 75, around 75 upstairs, upper 60s in the basement.)
 
C1E and EIST eliminate this issue for me and lets me keep my OC going through the summer. Sleep and hibernate helps, too. I don't leave my stuff running for no reason.
 
Originally posted by: shabby
Umm whoever said that was full of shit, that simply doesnt happen.
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depends on the computers in the room and how there set at.

my basement has an active vent, and if i turn that fan off, it will get hot in there FAST.

but then again theres 2 high clocked quad servers down there on water.



This question is so much YMMV. It depends on what machine you have in the room. How you ventilation is setup, and what cooling you have on those machines.

oh and water makes your room hotter and not colder. Cuz it takes it out of your computer faster and into the room.
 
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