New PC is making my room unbearably hot...

[Davez621]

This post is a re-hash of an older one, but I still need some help. Basically, after putting together a new PC I'm finding it is making the room unbearably hot (25.5C/78F), which is at least 2-3 degrees more than when I was running my old PC.

My PC is a Core 2 Duo E6750, 1 GB RAM, GF 8600GT 512M, WD Caviar 400GB, with a Cooler Master 600W PSU.

My OLD PC , was a P4 3.6 Ghz (Prescott 2M), 1 GB, similar video, Seagate 200GB, and 550W PSU.

I switched to the new PC because my old one was very noisy, unstable, and hot (or so I thought!). While the new CPU does run alot cooler, the actual room temperature has shot right up! It's unbearable... I'm honestly thinking of going back to an old P4 2.4 ghz or something similar (I used to have one of these CPUs years ago and it was one of the best I ever owned - almost completely silent and very cool).

So the question is, what can I do? I've already tried swapping the video card, and the PSU, but no change there. I've enabled speedstep to allow the CPU to run at a lower frequency - no change. I'm out of ideas!! Advice??

 

[Blain]

Do you have any empirical evidence that your new PC is heating your room more than your previous rig did?

 

[Davez621]

Originally posted by: Blain
Do you have any empirical evidence that your new PC is heating your room more than your previous rig did?

Yes, i have a small portable room thermometer with me and it proves this.

 

[MarcVenice]

Dude, at idle your PC puts out as much heat as your own body does when you are sitting. I think you are crazy because your rig doesn't require inordinate amounts of power. Especially not with speedstep and such enabled. In fact, your CPU consumes less energy then your old cpu used to. You could swap the HD for a Samsung t166 500gb, one of the coolest/quietest running HD's, but the heat output will only diminish like 5w, if not less. The PSU could probably be a more efficient one, but even it's 5% more efficient, and your rig consumes 150w of power under LOAD, then you are going to see the heat output diminished by a whopping 7.5w. So I still think your crazy, something else is messing with you, but it ain't your PC, or well, it MIGHT increase ambient temps, but it's not going to change 'much' if at all when you swap PC's.

 

[Blain]

Originally posted by: Davez621

Originally posted by: Blain
Do you have any empirical evidence that your new PC is heating your room more than your previous rig did?

Yes, i have a small portable room thermometer with me and it proves this.

That does not qualify.

* Do you have any outdoor temperature data when you were running your old rig as well as the same data for your current PC?
* What was the thermostat set on when you were running your old rig as well as for your current PC?
Basically you need statistical data that supports your claim that your new rig is 100% responsible for your elevated temperatures.
Without said data, our comments and suggestions would simply be uninformed shot in the dark.

 

[Davez621]

Originally posted by: Blain

Originally posted by: Davez621

Originally posted by: Blain
Do you have any empirical evidence that your new PC is heating your room more than your previous rig did?

Yes, i have a small portable room thermometer with me and it proves this.

That does not qualify.

* Do you have any outdoor temperature data when you were running your old rig as well as the same data for your current PC?
* What was the thermostat set on when you were running your old rig as well as for your current PC?
Basically you need statistical data that supports your claim that your new rig is 100% responsible for your elevated temperatures.
Without said data, our comments and suggestions would simply be uninformed shot in the dark.

I see what you're saying, but I don't see the relevance of *outside* temperature. Room temperature in the room remains at a very constant temperature. On very hot days, we have air conditioning. Anyway, I have the thermo sitting here and its giving me the *same* reading almost every day. On very hot days, it even gets into the 26 range (nearly 80F), but usually hovers around 25-25.5. It was much the same situation with the old PC (I only just switched over a couple weeks ago), where the room temp was usually 23-23.5. A few degrees can make a huge difference to comfort levels.

 

[hclarkjr]

maybe open a window? if it is winter outside that should cool things down

 

[xavier es]

i wish i had that problem! i have thought about taking the aftermarket cooling off both my rigs and going back to stock cooling and turning the boxes around so the exhaust blows right at me. in the winter at least,summer is another story.

 

[ManBearPig]

you dont think outside temperature influences what it feels like on the inside? even with heat or ac on, it influences what it feels like in my apt and house, at least.

 

[Davez621]

Originally posted by: Kazaam
you dont think outside temperature influences what it feels like on the inside? even with heat or ac on, it influences what it feels like in my apt and house, at least.

To a certain extent... but in a house with double brick walls and good insulation, the room temp. doesn't vary too much. Anyway, in the room that the PC is in, it almost always reaches at least 25 regardless of the outside temp, and never drops below this. It's the difference between this new PC and the old one that concerns me. Let's keep as many constants as possible - introducing all of these variables will not make it possible to reach a conclusion.

 

[happy medium]

Originally posted by: Davez621
This post is a re-hash of an older one, but I still need some help. Basically, after putting together a new PC I'm finding it is making the room unbearably hot (25.5C/78F), which is at least 2-3 degrees more than when I was running my old PC.

My PC is a Core 2 Duo E6750, 1 GB RAM, GF 8600GT 512M, WD Caviar 400GB, with a Cooler Master 600W PSU.

My OLD PC , was a P4 3.6 Ghz (Prescott 2M), 1 GB, similar video, Seagate 200GB, and 550W PSU.

I switched to the new PC because my old one was very noisy, unstable, and hot (or so I thought!). While the new CPU does run alot cooler, the actual room temperature has shot right up! It's unbearable... I'm honestly thinking of going back to an old P4 2.4 ghz or something similar (I used to have one of these CPUs years ago and it was one of the best I ever owned - almost completely silent and very cool).

So the question is, what can I do? I've already tried swapping the video card, and the PSU, but no change there. I've enabled speedstep to allow the CPU to run at a lower frequency - no change. I'm out of ideas!! Advice??

Water cooling is your only option.

 

[MarcVenice]

Why is it ? The heat from his PC is going to go somewhere, and that somewhere is in his room, wether you air or watercool it, the heat is going to be dumped somewhere. The only option is to turn of the PC, or build one that only consumes 50w or so, which is doable, some pc's can do that, at the expense of performance though.

 

[ManBearPig]

You know, my room is always way hotter than my roommates' rooms, and the only difference between ours is that they have laptops and i have an always running desktop. Ive always thought it was because of this damn thing that my room is so fucking hot. and i always turn it off over night, and guess what? heats gone lol.

 

[Blain]

Originally posted by: happy medium

Originally posted by: Davez621
This post is a re-hash of an older one, but I still need some help. Basically, after putting together a new PC I'm finding it is making the room unbearably hot (25.5C/78F), which is at least 2-3 degrees more than when I was running my old PC.

My PC is a Core 2 Duo E6750, 1 GB RAM, GF 8600GT 512M, WD Caviar 400GB, with a Cooler Master 600W PSU.

My OLD PC , was a P4 3.6 Ghz (Prescott 2M), 1 GB, similar video, Seagate 200GB, and 550W PSU.

I switched to the new PC because my old one was very noisy, unstable, and hot (or so I thought!). While the new CPU does run alot cooler, the actual room temperature has shot right up! It's unbearable... I'm honestly thinking of going back to an old P4 2.4 ghz or something similar (I used to have one of these CPUs years ago and it was one of the best I ever owned - almost completely silent and very cool).

So the question is, what can I do? I've already tried swapping the video card, and the PSU, but no change there. I've enabled speedstep to allow the CPU to run at a lower frequency - no change. I'm out of ideas!! Advice??

Water cooling is your only option.

His problem isn't his PC components getting too hot, it's the heat the PC is dumping into his room.
Water cooling would only facilitate the heat being dumped into the room more efficiently than air cooling.

He needs lower powered, more efficient components that produce less heat to begin with.
That 8600GT is a little space heater, and his PS is only "> 70%". His Caviar isn't the coolest running HD around either.
He didn't mention what configuration his memory was. Are we to assume that he's got two 512MB sticks?

 

[LikeLinus]

Originally posted by: Blain

Originally posted by: Davez621

Originally posted by: Blain
Do you have any empirical evidence that your new PC is heating your room more than your previous rig did?

Yes, i have a small portable room thermometer with me and it proves this.

That does not qualify.

* Do you have any outdoor temperature data when you were running your old rig as well as the same data for your current PC?
* What was the thermostat set on when you were running your old rig as well as for your current PC?
Basically you need statistical data that supports your claim that your new rig is 100% responsible for your elevated temperatures.
Without said data, our comments and suggestions would simply be uninformed shot in the dark.

That's just a bit silly. Even my wife knows that when I keep the computer running that the room is hotter than it normally is. The 2-3 92mm fan I have in the that exhaust heat that is warmer than room temp definitely has to go SOMEWHERE. Do you also think one of those small electric space heaters don't put out any heat? It's the same thing essentially. It?s just on a smaller level.

 

[MegaVovaN]

Move to Alaska, Siberia, or South Pole.

 

[MarcVenice]

LikeLinus, it's not like he disagreed that his room is hotter, is it hotter then it used to be though ?

 

[GuitarDaddy]

Move out of the closet

 

[Blain]

Originally posted by: MarcVenice
LikeLinus, it's not like he disagreed that his room is hotter, is it hotter then it used to be though

MarcVenice, you get an A+ in reading comprehension.

 

[LikeLinus]

Originally posted by: Blain

Originally posted by: MarcVenice
LikeLinus, it's not like he disagreed that his room is hotter, is it hotter then it used to be though

MarcVenice, you get an A+ in reading comprehension.

Don't act like an ass. I understood what you were saying. Simply put though, you're implying that he hasn't proved that his PC has increased the temperature in his room and can't without data. That's just SILLY. If you live in a house for 3 years and then you start leaving a high performance PC on in your room and all the sudden your room is hotter. COMMON SENSE would tell you it's the computer.

Common Sense for the A++.

 

[nerp]

Duct cold air into the front. Duct the warm air outside.