How do you keep your room cool when you have a PC that runs hot?

[DSprite]

My 8700K is only at 64 degrees Celsius under load and my 1080ti only goes up to 70 degrees max (that ive seen). I have six case fans in my NZXT H440 all installed correctly. I live in Australia and it's around 30-40 degrees Celsius right now, so opening the window won't work. I like to have my door closed to avoid hearing noises when playing, but the air conditioning doesn't flow properly unless the door is open, and I live with my parents who say that a small fan draws too much power and costs too much".

 

How do you cool down your room?

[♠FlamieMeister♠]

I will show my reply for $5

[Dreaper]

I have a window A/C unit right behind my PC that is running at 64F or 17C all the time im in there, so it keeps me cool and my pc extra cool

[cj09beira]

2 minutes ago, DSprite said:

My 8700K is only at 64 degrees Celsius under load and my 1080ti only goes up to 70 degrees max (that ive seen). I have six case fans in my NZXT H440 all installed correctly. I live in Australia and it's around 30-40 degrees Celsius right now, so opening the window won't work. I like to have my door closed to avoid hearing noises when playing, but the air conditioning doesn't flow properly unless the door is open, and I live with my parents who say that a small fan draws too much power and costs too much".

 

How do you cool down your room?

 your pc is probably pulling some 500w on its own, there is no way arounf that fact, get the fan or open the door, fon only helps with perception of heat though)

[Nicnac]

Meanwhile I'm freezing with all my radiators turned up to max...

[minibois]

How do I do it? Not live in a country that gets hot.. Like Australia.

But maybe this mod interests you:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EM2G5vLGcQQ

[Teddy07]

I don't even have time to play games anymore. Solves the problem but now my room is fucking cold here in Germany (16°C without a heater and I hate to turn it on because I want to save money ).

 

Guess we could switch countries (I may actually do that in the future )

[Jaminahat]

A fan shouldn't make much difference to your electricity bill, I mean, in comparison to what your pc pulls its nothing. If your Air con doesn't work with the door shut then leave it open. Just maybe re-arrange your desk so that you can see the door, if that's what freaks you out? (I'm the same). This aside however, your pc isnt actually running that hot so im sure it'll be fine.

[Nicnac]

Skip cooling your room and go directly to what matters: cooling you! 

Stick your feet in a bucket with cold water, sprinkle some crushed ice in there...

[Bigbootyjudy]

Where I live its always hot inside (room gets to 85 F degrees max) and outside (up to 110 F in summer) so I don't really have a good solution other than to take a break for a couple minutes, cool down, then come back. Or you could just use your computer while wearing nothing   (kidding unless that's your thing)

[lewdicrous]

2 minutes ago, Nicnac said:

Skip cooling your room and go directly to what matters: cooling you! 

Stick your feet in a bucket with cold water, sprinkle some crushed ice in there...

or just keep the PC on a bucket of ice.. win/win

[Nicnac]

1 minute ago, lewdicrous said:

or just keep the PC on a bucket of ice.. win/win

You mean in the bucket right...? Optimal heat transfer and stuff

[gbergeron]

18 minutes ago, DSprite said:

My 8700K is only at 64 degrees Celsius under load and my 1080ti only goes up to 70 degrees max (that ive seen). I have six case fans in my NZXT H440 all installed correctly. I live in Australia and it's around 30-40 degrees Celsius right now, so opening the window won't work. I like to have my door closed to avoid hearing noises when playing, but the air conditioning doesn't flow properly unless the door is open, and I live with my parents who say that a small fan draws too much power and costs too much".

 

How do you cool down your room?

Have you ever heard of Air conditionner ?  

[cj09beira]

13 minutes ago, Minibois said:

How do I do it? Not live in a country that gets hot.. Like Australia.

But maybe this mod interests you:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EM2G5vLGcQQ

thats not how physics work, that would make 0 difference to the temperature of the room

[minibois]

Just now, cj09beira said:

thats not how physics work, that would make 0 difference to the temperature of the room

I know, it's a meme. Like how people say "use watercooling to cool down your room".

But realistically, he could use a system like the in the video I linked to get the heat out of his room.. (kind of like an airco, push the hot air to outside his room)

[N3rot0xin]

Open a door, run a fan, circulate air. A fan is really your best bet; its not a space heater, so your parents have no reason to be concerned with power consumption. If your room is having air flow problems, here is a couple of things to try: 

 

- Place the fan near the air vent to help in creating a draft

- if your room has a hot/cold air return vent, open the hot air one (the upper one) and close the cold air(lower one)

( refer to this link for information on those: http://www.hydesac.com/supply-return-vents-whats-difference-exactly/ )

 

There's not a lot you can do, because you've already limited the options(keeping the door closed, can't use a fan). 

Any room in which you block from the natural drafts in your house is going to suffer from higher temperature deltas, and with a heat generating pc in a room with no air flow, things are getting toasty. Unless you create drafts some other way, your room is going to be hot. Maybe invest in some noise canceling headphones if ambient noises distract you. 

[BloodyWaters]

A low power portable AC unit might work

[raleighc]

17 minutes ago, cj09beira said:

thats not how physics work, that would make 0 difference to the temperature of the room

If his room was the entire universe, I would agree with you, but because such a ridiculous amount of air current would undoubtedly affect the air circulation in the room, and between rooms, you're making a University Physics 2 oversimplification of heat current.  Not only would the perceived temperature (and likely real temperature) of the room be less due to air flowing through the house, the computer parts would also put out marginally (very marginally) less total heat due to decreased resistance of colder electrical pathways, and decreased waste heat as a result.  Colder parts take slightly less wattage to run, all else being equal.

[Donut417]

46 minutes ago, DSprite said:

My 8700K is only at 64 degrees Celsius under load and my 1080ti only goes up to 70 degrees max (that ive seen). I have six case fans in my NZXT H440 all installed correctly. I live in Australia and it's around 30-40 degrees Celsius right now, so opening the window won't work. I like to have my door closed to avoid hearing noises when playing, but the air conditioning doesn't flow properly unless the door is open, and I live with my parents who say that a small fan draws too much power and costs too much".

 

How do you cool down your room?

Well I work at Burger King, and in the summer the kitchen gets hot. So I just learned to sit at my computer and bake in the heat. I have a Windows Air Conditioner, but I live with my parents and dont use it all the time out of respect for them paying the power bill. Most times in the summer my room is 90 Degrees Fahrenheit or 32 degrees C  for those not in the US.  

[Princess Luna]

Fan?

 

AC?

 

I mean for real what do you expect to hear with this kind of question? Besides who the hell has an i7 8700k and 1080 Ti and says something like:

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I live with my parents who say that a small fan draws too much power and costs too much".

 

[Dylanc1500]

A possible solution would be to run sealed ducting from the exhaust, to your window as it will take the heat from the computer and pump it outside instead back into your room. In the end it'll help with keeping your room cooler which will in turn keep your computer cooler due to cooler intake temperature.

 

It's a cheap easy option however that is just my two cents.

[cj09beira]

5 hours ago, raleighc said:

If his room was the entire universe, I would agree with you, but because such a ridiculous amount of air current would undoubtedly affect the air circulation in the room, and between rooms, you're making a University Physics 2 oversimplification of heat current.  Not only would the perceived temperature (and likely real temperature) of the room be less due to air flowing through the house, the computer parts would also put out marginally (very marginally) less total heat due to decreased resistance of colder electrical pathways, and decreased waste heat as a result.  Colder parts take slightly less wattage to run, all else being equal.

you forgot a very important info, he games with his door closed  

[vanished]

I open a window, works great when it's < 0°C outside

But for you, there is only one option: air conditioning.

[cj09beira]

2 minutes ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

I open a window, works great when it's < 0°C outside

But for you, there is only one option: air conditioning.

thats how i most most of my hwbot records  

[AshleyAshes]

3 minutes ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

I open a window, works great when it's < 0°C outside

But for you, there is only one option: air conditioning.

I wonder if there have been any serious attempts at ducting a desktop PC's heat to the outside.  Though you'd need more outward airflow than a PC generates even if you used the same kind of ducting that say, a portable air conditioner would use to reach a window.

 

Though ducting the heat out, if possible, would be more energy efficient than air conditioning the hot air.  But the real trick would be to do it and not have it be all stupid.