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Okay so I'm sure no one is a stranger to heat dissipation into there rooms and causing a significant temperature change in there "gaming room" to just outside the door. Expectantly after 3-6++ hours of gaming straight. I understand that no matter what you choose for cooling that the bottom like is your drawing the heat from the computer components and dissipating them into the room. I have tried air cooled, water cooled and debating on going full water loop to try and reduce this affect. So really my question to you guy is. Will a water loop help this? I mean I already am using a h80i for my cpu and looking to do a h100i for my gpu. But They both are just dissipating the heat into my room. Or should I alow higher levels of operating temps instead of trying to keep things cooled off. Maybe just let them run hot and keep my fans on low.. Maybe this will dissipate less heat into the room and keep more heat on the components/in my case. As you can see I'm baffled, and I want/need help. Thanks guys looking forward to some real answers. Not smart ass comments. Thanks!

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Water cooling will cool your components more but heat up the room even worst since it's dissipating that heat into the room. The best would be to have AC or have cross ventilation to bring in fresh air and remove the hot air from the room.

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water cooling heats the room most. if you want a cool room you can overheat your components with stock coolers in a cramped case.

We can't Benchmark like we used to, but we have our ways. One trick is to shove more GPUs in your computer. Like the time I needed to NV-Link, because I needed a higher HeavenBench score, so I did an SLI, which is what they called NV-Link back in the day. So, I decided to put two GPUs in my computer, which was the style at the time. Now, to add another GPU to your computer, costs a new PSU. Now in those days PSUs said OCZ on them, "Gimme 750W OCZs for an SLI" you'd say. Now where were we? Oh yeah, the important thing was that I had two GPUs in my rig, which was the style at the time! They didn't have RGB PSUs at the time, because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big green ones. 

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Okay so I'm sure no one is a stranger to heat dissipation into there rooms and causing a significant temperature change in there "gaming room" to just outside the door. Expectantly after 3-6++ hours of gaming straight. I understand that no matter what you choose for cooling that the bottom like is your drawing the heat from the computer components and dissipating them into the room. I have tried air cooled, water cooled and debating on going full water loop to try and reduce this affect. So really my question to you guy is. Will a water loop help this? I mean I already am using a h80i for my cpu and looking to do a h100i for my gpu. But They both are just dissipating the heat into my room. Or should I alow higher lever of operating temps instead of trying to keep things cooled off. Maybe just let them run hot and keep my fans on low.. Maybe this will dissipate less heat into the room and keep more heat on the components/in my case. As you can see I'm baffled and want/need help. Thanks guys looking forward to some real answers. Not smart ass comments. Thanks!

I deal with similar issues because my iMac is almost all passively cooled and it gets hot af. Do you have windows (literally not the OS) in your room? I have a large door that opens to a porch so I just air it out every once in a while.

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Okay so I'm sure

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We can't Benchmark like we used to, but we have our ways. One trick is to shove more GPUs in your computer. Like the time I needed to NV-Link, because I needed a higher HeavenBench score, so I did an SLI, which is what they called NV-Link back in the day. So, I decided to put two GPUs in my computer, which was the style at the time. Now, to add another GPU to your computer, costs a new PSU. Now in those days PSUs said OCZ on them, "Gimme 750W OCZs for an SLI" you'd say. Now where were we? Oh yeah, the important thing was that I had two GPUs in my rig, which was the style at the time! They didn't have RGB PSUs at the time, because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big green ones. 

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I live in GA and its July where it gets 100+ in the day not including the affect of humidity, and only cools off to about 75 at night. So opening a window will not help. Haha

 

If you have a portable AC unit that would be your best bet then, the are however a little noisy though compared to central AC units but much less cost.

 

 

That or only game or do heavy tasks during the night  ;)

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I live in GA and its July where it gets 100+ in the day not including the affect of humidity, and only cools off to about 75 at night. So opening a window will not help. Haha

Oh HA, I live in California, where it's 50˚ in the middle of summer and doesn't rain a drop in winter. We obviously live in very different climates. Hope you figure this out!

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If you have a portable AC unit that would be your best bet then, the are however a little noisy though compared to central AC units but much less cost.

That or only game or do heavy tasks during the night ;)

Yeah looks like adding cooler air to the room is the way to go. One way or the other.

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all watercooling does is exhaust the heat into the room more efficiently.

If it runs cooler that doesn't mean it exhausts less heat, that just means the generated heat is moved away more efficiently.

An 85w TDP cpu will spit out 85 watts of heat under max load, no mater what kind of cooling solution you have.

Your best solution aside from aggressive air conditioning is to open up a couple of windows in the room and get some nice cross-flow, or find a way to exhaust the heat outside with dryer hose. Or drill a hole through the wall and put the pc in a different room if you wanna be extreme about it.

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Your solution is to either get better room cooling, get more efficient components, or undervolt stuff.

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