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Hey guys, does anyone have any solutions for when your computer overheats your room? I have 2 fans circulating in my room atm and was wondering if anyone has anything else that works for them. I do turn my computer off at night.
 
Get an ice chest and will it with, well, ice. Leaving the chest open, set the fans to pull the cold air coming off the ice and circulate it into the room, you've got a little mini condenser for your room. Keep the chest full of ice, of course.

For best results, keep the unit close to where you are. This should cool things down pretty well. :D
 
Some have previously suggested the use of a window exhaust fan so the heat actually has somewhere to go. You can also make sure one of those two fans is pulling in cool air from the rest of the house through your doorway.
 
Dude buy a small A/C for the room
that is what i have in my computer room works really good
you can get temps really really low if you crank it on high
 
Leave your bedroom door open and your window open some. Other than getting A/C thats your best bet :/
 
I used a small closet as an office/media hub. With two PCs, modem, router, switch, NAS, external drives and other heat emitting hardware it could get hot quickly. I installed a low power ceiling exhaust fan which worked okay, but needed a way to pull cool air in. I cut a 16x16 hole in the floor below the shelves with the hardware, another one in the ceiling above, and finished things off with vent covers. Cool air would get drawn in from the crawl space below the house and hot air would convect out thru the ceiling vent into the hollow space between walls to the roof. It worked well without all that fan noise.
 
just go to wal mart and buy a A/C install it in your window
and thats all there is to it
 
SDraconis said:
Some have previously suggested the use of a window exhaust fan so the heat actually has somewhere to go. You can also make sure one of those two fans is pulling in cool air from the rest of the house through your doorway.
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go to goodwill, go spend like 15 dollars on a fan that fits in your window, and just pipe air in or out. That's what I do. Works well for the most part, except during mid-days during the summer. :-P
 
Thanks for all the replies. Yeah I will look into a small A/C unit for my room. I have a mini fridge so i'm just going to leave that open. lol j/k.
 
i was at all wal-mart the other day and they had some that were 5300 btu's for 75 dollars
 
I had the same problem, but around here the air outside is practically freezing so i just got a small desk fan and put it by the window, problem solved.
 
I have the same problem. Been thinking about getting a window AC unit. Found one at lowes that was nonly 12" deep, I think it was 5000btu and about $100. i have also thought about moving some stuff around and making a board that fits into the window with a Dryer vent in it, then I could mod the rear of the computer case so I can hook up some dryer vent hoses to it, then I will be able to vent the hot air out the window instead of into my room. Only problem is I will need 2 hoses one for the rear fan, the other for the PSU. Not sure what material to use for the back of the computer either, I am not very good with sheetmetal and dont have the tools. Wood or Formica would be good for the window section. I think a standard Dryer hose should be just the right size for a 120mm fan.

Dont flame me for this, its just an idea and it should work just fine and with a little work should look ok as well.
 
Diablo2K said:
i have also thought about moving some stuff around and making a board that fits into the window with a Dryer vent in it, then I could mod the rear of the computer case so I can hook up some dryer vent hoses to it, then I will be able to vent the hot air out the window instead of into my room. Only problem is I will need 2 hoses one for the rear fan, the other for the PSU. Not sure what material to use for the back of the computer either, I am not very good with sheetmetal and dont have the tools. Wood or Formica would be good for the window section. I think a standard Dryer hose should be just the right size for a 120mm fan.

Dont flame me for this, its just an idea and it should work just fine and with a little work should look ok as well.
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Hey, I consider the same thing with a dryer hose every summer here in Arizona.

My computer has two 120mm case fans, an 80 or 90mm PSU fan, and two two slot fans exhausting air out of my case. I figure I could take a garbage bag, cut open the bottom and tape it to the back end of my computer to cover all the exhaust points, then tape the top half of the garbage bag to the dryer hose and lead that to the board opening at the window. Maybe even put a small fan at the window to help pull the air from the computer to the outside.

Not that I've actually done this.. I just think about it all the time as I sit in my 82 degree room when the rest of the house is 77 degrees.
 
I think the problem with the dryer hose idea is that case fans are not powerful enough to push air that far. You can feel the air coming out of a dryer hose from 5-15 feet away, but I doubt you can feel any case fan air from a foot away. Unless the distance to the window is very short, or the hoses allow the heated air to vent up unimpeded, the heat will accumulate in the hose and eventually your hot air will not be expelled from the case. Any dip or bend in the hose will keep the heat static.
 
Build a watercooling setup where the radiator resides outside the house.
 
I have the same problem in my computer room. I keep my house at 72 degrees and the 3 ton unit in this 1400sq.ft house works fine keeping the rest of the house cool. The problem is that once the HVAC shuts off, the computer room temperature rises. It's all good when the HVAC system is running. I don't have a good solution because opening the window when it's 100 isn't going to work. I do have a crawl space, but really don't want to cut through a thick sub floor and oak hardwood floors. I guess longer term I could put in a small wall mounted A/C unit. Unless it's cool outside nothing works better than A/C. :)
 
I'm sitting here in 33C (41C with humidity.... ~106F) and my room must be at least 26-28 with the box running. Thank god for ceiling fans...
 
unixadm said:
I have the same problem in my computer room. I keep my house at 72 degrees and the 3 ton unit in this 1400sq.ft house works fine keeping the rest of the house cool. The problem is that once the HVAC shuts off, the computer room temperature rises. It's all good when the HVAC system is running. I don't have a good solution because opening the window when it's 100 isn't going to work. I do have a crawl space, but really don't want to cut through a thick sub floor and oak hardwood floors. I guess longer term I could put in a small wall mounted A/C unit. Unless it's cool outside nothing works better than A/C. :)
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I got a 3.5 ton brand new unit now a few weeks old in a 1430sq.ft condo first floor, But I have the same problem as you, but my house is set to 73 degrees. This is why I got this
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12,000BTU A/C unit sitting on top of my mini fridge, My mom hates the fact that I run this thing at 70 degrees :rolleyes:

But got to keep my comps cold. ;) :D

Also Trane FTW :)
 
I have one solution that works really well and it also makes the room more quiet.

I just bought extension cords(i got mine from cablewholesale.com) for everything(2 usb, 1 monitor, 1 sound), and put my case in my closet. it gets pretty warm in my closet, but my PC is still an overclocked opteron 165 to 2.6ghz, and it never overheats. Not to mention this method will make your room very quiet!

You might have to compensate for the extra heat if you have an extreme overclock, but downclocking a few mhz is totally worth it imo. set your bios to turn on with keyboard or mouse, and its all good. except of course for putting new dvds or cds in, but I do that once in a blue moon anyway
 
damonposey said:
I have one solution that works really well and it also makes the room more quiet.

I just bought extension cords(i got mine from cablewholesale.com) for everything(2 usb, 1 monitor, 1 sound), and put my case in my closet. it gets pretty warm in my closet, but my PC is still an overclocked opteron 165 to 2.6ghz, and it never overheats. Not to mention this method will make your room very quiet!

You might have to compensate for the extra heat if you have an extreme overclock, but downclocking a few mhz is totally worth it imo. set your bios to turn on with keyboard or mouse, and its all good. except of course for putting new dvds or cds in, but I do that once in a blue moon anyway
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good idea, but you can always get a usb dvd drive :)
 
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