Question What room temperature do you try to keep?

[13Gigatons]

I'd keep it at 60-65 but that is nearly impossible on the second floor.

 

[killster1]

I'd keep it at 60-65 but that is nearly impossible on the second floor.

sounds like your rich! i set my thermostat to 78 if im feeling luxurious.

 

[aigomorla]

Whatever the temp is outside +/- 5F.

I stopped air conditioning my server room as its too costly, and pointless.
If it gets too hot, i'll just turn them off until it gets cooler as if its too hot, i probably don't want to be doing stuff on them anyhow.
My NAS has a 20inch MERV 8 filtered box fan right up against it and the Hard Drives, so unless its 100F+ outside, they rarely get that hot.
But that too gets turned off if the ambients get too extreme, as that is a good way of killing life on Hard Disks and i have over 20 of them.

My main system is watercooled, so that is also dictated by ambients, but the swing is minimal.
Again if its 100F+ well on my main i will most likely turn the AC on as its in my room, so to be honest my main PC probably has never seen temps in excess of 70C across all Cores and my GPU has only broken 60C for 2 weeks while i was waiting for its waterblock to come in.

 

[VirtualLarry]

It was 79F yesterday here. My mining boxes (my most recent has 3x GTX 1660 ti cards in it, single-fan ITX style), @ 80% power limit, were hitting 83-84C on the hottest card.

No A/C, can't run A/C on same circuit as mining rigs, not without shutting half of them down. (Which I also did, shut all but my main rig off from mining, for personal comfort, during the hottest part of the afternoon.)

I do have some fans in a window to bring in fresh air. I'm experimenting today, with one intake and one exhaust. Before, I had both set to intake or both set to exhaust, and had the window in the opposite room open, to get cross-ventilation.

 

[WilliamM2]

Thermostat set for 69 for heat (64 at night). Air set to 69 all the time. House is extremely well insulated and sealed. On a 90 degree day the air may kick on 3-4 times a day for an hour, mostly after 4 pm or so. In the winter when it's 10 degrees or less, the heater will run at least twice that often, but natural gas is almost free these days so I haven't paid as much attention to heat run time.

 

[killster1]

Thermostat set for 69 for heat (64 at night). Air set to 69 all the time. House is extremely well insulated and sealed. On a 90 degree day the air may kick on 3-4 times a day for an hour, mostly after 4 pm or so. In the winter when it's 10 degrees or less, the heater will run at least twice that often, but natural gas is almost free these days so I haven't paid as much attention to heat run time.

sounds so fun, you wear a sweatshirt all the time?

 

[WelshBloke]

Set the room temperature?

If its chilly I turn on the heating for a bit, if it's hot I open the window for a bit.

 

[WilliamM2]

sounds so fun, you wear a sweatshirt all the time?

No I wear short sleeve shirts. You think 69-70 is cold? I find it perfect.

 

[13Gigatons]

sounds like your rich! i set my thermostat to 78 if im feeling luxurious.

I said it was impossible. The room will spike up to 78 and it's still springtime. No A/C just open Window at night for now.

 

[chrisjames61]

I'd keep it at 60-65 but that is nearly impossible on the second floor.

Whatever is comfortable. Don't care what a thermometer reads.

 

[Stuka87]

Heater is set for 68 during the day (if I am home), and 65 at night or when I am not home.

In the summer, I don't have air conditioning. I use an evaporative cooler, which I have to manually turn on. It works by having water run over wood fiber pads, and then a big mouse wheel style blower pulls air through them and into the house. The evaporation effect cools the air. On a 100+ day, I can keep the house between 70-75.

For my office in the summer, it can get a bit warmer than I like sometimes. Will be curious to see how my new PC holds up.

 

[HutchinsonJC]

In the winter I usually keep it around 72. In the summer I usually keep it below 78. I can tolerate temps north of 70 better than I can south of 70.

 

[mindless1]

1st floor is set to 78F, 2nd ends up 80F to 82F depending on time of day. This is in summer with A/C running every day so the humidity is under control.

In spring transitioning to summer (like right now) A/C doesn't run as often so I set the temp down to 75F to compensate for the resultant higher humidity, which also lowers humidity a little more.

I'm very conscious about using exhaust fans for cooking, bathroom, etc to keep humidity lower.

 

[Oneto]

We keep the thermostat at 78, I'd prefer it a little cooler but whatever.