Room where PCs are is very warm...

[Jeff7]

Any electrical device is going to generate heat when it's powered, so it's dumping energy into its environment - your living space.

So you've really only got a few options:
- Reduce the power usage of the devices, and therefore the amount of thermal energy being dumped into your house. (Undervolt/underclock, get more efficient components.)
- Ventilation to move the heated air throughout the building and keep the temperature equalized.
- Remove the excess thermal energy from the room, and dump it outside the building. (Air conditioning.)

 

[Zap]

I work from home...

I have my laptop on one desk, my tower and monitor (see signature) on another in an "L" set up.

Do you need a second rig? Just leaving it off can help tremendously.

Alternately, if you want to get serious about reducing heat, then have a separate work system as your secondary. Use the lowest end Sandy Bridge CPU you can stomach and don't overclock. Use integrated graphics. Use an LED backlit normal monitor. Done.

 

[fastamdman]

Overhead ceiling fans only help humans evaporate sweat, thus making us feel cooler. It won't make the room cooler, although it will help 🙂

Actually if you use a ceiling fan and box fan in a "push pull" config the actual room temps drop. It's just like positive pressure in a computer case. Cool air in, warm out out = temp drops.