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THE HEAT!!!

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AMDPwred

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For the past few weeks my room has been cooking (around 85F). The sad part is, it's only January. I don't even want to think about this coming summer. I know it has to do with the fact that I just added a second PC to my collection. My question is, what can I do to cool things down in here? I really don't want tons of fans because it would get really loud. My Athlon system is running at 45C idle and 55C maxed out. The other one, I have no idea. It's an old Intel 180mhz. Any ideas?
 
Well, there's always the Cyrix C3 processor... fast enough for anything but 3D games and runs so cool it requires no fan.
[singing] You're as coooold as ice! 😉
 
What is considered hot for a CPU? My P4 2.0A idles at 38-41, depending on room temperature. After playing CS for a little while yesterday, it reached 44.
 
Do you have any windows in your room? You need to get more ventilation in your room. I have a small room, fits a queen size bed, a small TV stand, a desk, and a bookshelf. At one time, I had three computers running at once. One of which is a server with 4 hard drives. My main PC is an Athlon 1.2GHz OC'ed to 1.378GHz, both machines running at about 40C. The other one is an old dual celeron machine, which runs in the 30Cs. What I do is leave my windows open when I leave for work during the day, so I get some air in my room. I usually leave my systems on 24/7. I did notice my room gets hot if I close the windows and my door. So ventilation will help...

BTW, where do you live? It is winter time, and no way your room should be 85F.
 
I have a window DIRECTLY behind my desk (2 boxes on top of desk) so it's great when the window is open. Problem is the summer. I can't have it open in the summer because the AC is on and yadda yadda yadda. I was thinking of water cooling my main system to bring down my temps but I don't know if it would bring down my room temp. I wouldn't want to spend all of that money and then find out it won't. Maybe get a small fan and tunnel the fans air through a port and have that go straight into my case. I dunno.

Oh yeah, I'm in Richmond, Virginia.
 
What's your athlon setup?

How's your case cooling on the athlon?


For your room temp, your system probably isn't running all that hot, its just a simple byproduct of a warmer ambietn system temp.




Mike
 
It's a 1ghz T-Bird non/OCed. (2) Sunon 80mm high output fans and (2) Antec 80mm normal fans. Then I have a cheapo HS with a Taisol CPU fan. I was thinking of getting a new HSF and maybe that would bring down the CPU a good amount. A friend of mine has his CPU temp at around 25C with the same setup as me except he only has his (2) Antec fans running, not the Sunons. He has the copper HSF from Taisol though. Maybe I should give that a try.
 
Get flatscreen monitors. It's true that the CPU's get hot, but in my experience it has been the monitors that really heat up the room. The back of a monitor, while not as burning hot as a CPU really releases a lot of heat into the air, and efficiently too. I work in a small server room at work, and if I turn more than 2 monitors on I can really feel it (even though there are 6 CPUs and about 28 hard drives in the same room.)

At the very least turn off monitors when they are not in use.

 


<< I was thinking of water cooling my main system to bring down my temps but I don't know if it would bring down my room temp. >>

The heat from the computer will eventually go into the air in the room, regardless of whether you use air cooling or water cooling. You need to bring down the ambient room temperature. The only way water cooling might be able to help is if you put the radiator outside, running the hoses through some holes drilled in the window frame. That would let you use the great outdoors as your ultimate heat sink.
 
AMDpwred, I live about 50 miles south of Richmond.


I have a tbird 1.4 and it keeps my room nice and warm. In the summer I have a window ac unit that cools the room down. I also have a ceiling fan that moves air around in the room. The ceiling fan would probably be your cheapest bet. It still might get a little warm, but it does help.

During the summer we have to worry about the humidity. Humidity will probably hamper any of your cooling solutions, except the ac window unit.

So you might want to try the ceiling fan first.

Good luck with it.

Will
 
Get flatscreen monitors. It's true that the CPU's get hot, but in my experience it has been the monitors that really heat up the room. The back of a monitor, while not as burning hot as a CPU really releases a lot of heat into the air, and efficiently too. I work in a small server room at work, and if I turn more than 2 monitors on I can really feel it (even though there are 6 CPUs and about 28 hard drives in the same room.)

I only have one monitor (4 port KVM switch). And the heat issue isn't worth ~$800 to me. 😉

At the very least turn off monitors when they are not in use.

I do.
 


<< does your friend have the same motherboard? >>



No, we sure don't. I've got a Shuttle AK31A and he's got the older Epox board (I believe it was the first one to take DDR memory). I can't remember which model it is.
 


<< AMDpwred, I live about 50 miles south of Richmond.


I have a tbird 1.4 and it keeps my room nice and warm. In the summer I have a window ac unit that cools the room down. I also have a ceiling fan that moves air around in the room. The ceiling fan would probably be your cheapest bet. It still might get a little warm, but it does help.

During the summer we have to worry about the humidity. Humidity will probably hamper any of your cooling solutions, except the ac window unit.

So you might want to try the ceiling fan first.

Good luck with it.

Will >>



Heh, yeah the humidity kills around here. Funny you bring up ceiling fans. In the next 2-3 weeks we are getting some installed in the house. Hopefully that will get some air moving around in my room. The AC window unit is a perfect idea but I really don't want to spend money on one and I'm still living with my parents so it probably wouldn't float.
 
Someone asked what a flatscreen had to do with this problem? The produce far less heat than a CRT monitor. CRT monitors are responsible for my heat problem in my little office at work.

 
AMDPwrd, may I suggest something? Okay, now here it goes. Use a glass cutter to make a tiny tiny hole in your window. Two actually. About 1/2 inch. Then use water cooling but keep the Radiator outside the house. 🙂 Works like a charm, and *ALL* the exhausted heat goes *OUTSIDE*! 🙂 😎 *OR* you could torture your parents and just route the radiator outside your room, and into the hallway. And aluminium studios is right, Monitors can disipitate as much as a 1GHZ T-bird, so this little stunt would only reduce your heatproblems by 1/2. My suggestion? Keep the monitor on the P200 off when your not using it. And checking my suggestion, I see i've sugested something again. Yup, what Patchmaster said is right. Dump the heat *OUTSIDE*! 🙂
 
Cut a piece of plywood the width of the window and about 12" tall. Raise the window and put the piece of plywood in it and pull the window down on it. Cut two holes in the plywood, one on each side. Duct air from one hole into the boxes and exhaust it out the other hole. Filters would be appropriate to keep out insects, etc. Wouldn't cost much to try.........
 


<< Don't worry about it. 55C is nowhere near worrying about. If you start to crack 70C or so then you should worry. >>



Yeah I know it isn't much. I guess it's just the fact that it's only January. :frown:
 


<< this is why i buy intel till the amds can go without super temp. maintance >>



Intellegence strikes again! 😉
 
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