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Any body else feel their PC is also their Heater for the winter?

DannyRyu
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Yep. PC's secondary purpose is a space heater for me as well.

 

Even though walls of pretty much every house in here have good thermal insulation, my room in particular feels a little cold (in winters), due to the fact that the radiator does not work. So most of the heating is coming from my PC, which produced a decent amount of heat when it still had the GTX 590 (to a point where my room was almost the second sauna of our house). But now I'm back to the old 550Ti (RIP 590), so might get a little colder this winter.

 

I guess also having a 2600K on stock cooler (and stock clocks) helps... Not a whole lot compared to even the 550Ti, but still.

 

 

 

Never overclocked anything in my life, and I don't really do benchmarking myself, so most of the heat is generated by playing games.

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£10/$10 says OP is using an AMD GPU, CPU or both. /s

 

Joking aside, it doesn't tend to be my 'heater' unless I want it to, it's more aimed towards performance but keeping ambient temps decent. My monitor is my heater... I'm only joking a bit there. It kicks off a load of heat when it's at 144hz.

I guess you owe me 10$ I3-4170 + GTX 960 I put it some where in this forum  ;)  just a very small room so its just efficient :)

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I guess you owe me 10$ I3-4170 + GTX 960 I put it some where in this forum  ;)  just a very small room so its just efficient :)

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Not really. I notice that the room gets a bit warmer when the windows are closed but it sometimes even gets chilly when the exhausted air on top blows front towards my forearm. Although I appreciate the cold weather because I get lower temps when converting my ripped dvds/brs.

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when I just lived in a rented bedroom I would at times turn the PC on to add a little extra heat.

 

Now that I live in my own house then i just roll out the space heater.  It pulls more wattage but generates a lot more heat. 

 

That all being said once i upgraded to water cooling the room i keep the computer in does get a fare amount hotter than before.

Lower case and cpu temps, but higher room temperatures.

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My computer generates a lot of heat which is noticable in the summer time, but my room is litterally the coldest in the house. It is usually between 13 and 17*C in the winter depeding on the outside temp. The computer loves it, I don't. At that temp, it doesn't matter how hard I run the computer it can't heat the room up.

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Only after extended periods of stress testing.

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All processors do generate heat

Im stupid but im not that stupid.

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Last year my room had poor isolation, now that it's got double glass and everything my room gets too hot sometimes because of my PC.

So many things I could write here... things like this.

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I have a small room and 2 760's.

Its like a damn sauna everyday.

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In the winter when its about 10F out I open my Windows and bask in the glory of freezing winter air. My PCs do little to alleviate the issue. 

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nb4 hawaii cards overheating the room and...

 

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Mine has an intake right nest to my leg. Makes it quite cold tbh...

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