If it's in your room and the room is small or the area you live in tends to be hot in summer just get a nice window AC and turn it on when needed. If you have an AC elsewhere in the house and it just doesn't reach the room properly good chances the AC does not have enough BTU for the sq feet of the house but you could try just getting a fan in the room in case it is just cause there's not a good circulation of air in the room.
Portable AC are not quite as effective as the normal window ones and are more for places like living rooms or rooms with unusual windows or sliding doors that a normal AC wont fit in. The tubing from the AC to the "window" usually puts off a little heat even though most is blown outside and you need to be sure to seal the panel the tube is hooked to properly. Normal AC don't have this problem as the back end of the AC which gives off heat is actually outside the window this also make it so you don't have the drip problem of portable AC as well.
Brenics ~ Just to point out I do believe Chris Roberts is going down as the man who cheated backers and took down crowdfunding for gaming.
lol.. heat generated is heat generated, no case or water cooling or fans is going to change that.
What else is any cooling application for other than getting rid of heat??? Kind of the point....
ROFLMAO it does not 'get rid of the heat' it moves it from inside the case to outside the case this results in ....... "Computer Heats Up Room". You can then move the heat outside with an AC or mix the air up with a room fan etc .
Yep computers add heat to the room they are in, as do monitors and televisions etc. Usually it is not noticeable but if your set up is burning enough watts it will be as noticeable as having a small electric heater.
Another one...really have you never seen a good liquid cooling system at work? Any setup that is like a small heater has something wrong with it.
Some basic physics: Energy does never disappear nor decrease. You can move energy around, and change its form, but you can never decrease the amount of energy.
Heat is energy too. Computer coolers, whether it's a fan or a water cooling system, work by transferring heat outside the computer case. Because energy can never disappear nor decrease, a computer cooler won't decrease the heat transferred from computer to the room at all. At best it has zero effect, at worst it only makes things worse since the energy used by cooler ends up as more heat in the room.
I used to have this problem when I had an old card a GTX 480 it used to warm my room up considerably. The card ran up to 93 degrees in summer.
I got my new computer which is running very low the heat on the GTX 770 at about 35 degrees when idle but when I play Dragon Age I it goes up to 83 degrees and 70 degrees with Witcher 3. No idea why Dragon Age I heats up the card more. Anyway the heat production is not like it used to be when I got the original Alienware water cooling system in 2010. This model although it looks exactly the same except for the movable vents on top now they are just holes on top is doing a better job at keeping the heat down since the back of the computer is not blasting heat now.
A window unit AC is probably the most cost effective way to reliably cool a small space. You can also turn it on and off as needed making it more efficient.
If you want to get into really, really cheap though, you can make a $20 camping cooler based AC unit.
As long as you can produce ice for it, you can keep a small room space pretty cool. It will likely increase the humidity of the space you're in too though, so keep that in mind.
A window unit AC is probably the most cost effective way to reliably cool a small space. You can also turn it on and off as needed making it more efficient.
If you want to get into really, really cheap though, you can make a $20 camping cooler based AC unit.
As long as you can produce ice for it, you can keep a small room space pretty cool. It will likely increase the humidity of the space you're in too though, so keep that in mind.
This is far far from effective especially if your not buying the ice and making it in your freezer, I know i tried various methods of this as experiments years ago.
Normal AC in window is best option.
Brenics ~ Just to point out I do believe Chris Roberts is going down as the man who cheated backers and took down crowdfunding for gaming.
Just an FYI on the window fan: don't put it in the window next to you.For an entire summer, any time I had to sneeze it'd be directly into the fan. Took an entire summer to learn to sneeze to my right.
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Originally posted by Quizzical Since the original poster still hasn't replied, can we assume that his room got so hot that he had to be hospitalized for heatstroke?
My initial thought was, was the room actually heating up, or were long gaming sessions raising the OP's blood-pressure...?
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Originally posted by Robokapp Originally posted by Howbadisbady not a problem during the winter I find it to be uncomfortable during the summer. Obviously I could just crank up the AC but that would increase the electric bill
dont the two balance out? the electrical bill being down in winter?
Generally:
Heat is typically cheaper to produce than cooling via electricity (nearly anything electrical can produce heat, it takes specialized equipment to produce cooling).
And
Heating can often be produced via other even less expensive means (gas, oil, solar, geothermal, etc). Cooling can in certain situations, but not as easily or readily.
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If it's in your room and the room is small or the area you live in tends to be hot in summer just get a nice window AC and turn it on when needed. If you have an AC elsewhere in the house and it just doesn't reach the room properly good chances the AC does not have enough BTU for the sq feet of the house but you could try just getting a fan in the room in case it is just cause there's not a good circulation of air in the room.
Portable AC are not quite as effective as the normal window ones and are more for places like living rooms or rooms with unusual windows or sliding doors that a normal AC wont fit in. The tubing from the AC to the "window" usually puts off a little heat even though most is blown outside and you need to be sure to seal the panel the tube is hooked to properly. Normal AC don't have this problem as the back end of the AC which gives off heat is actually outside the window this also make it so you don't have the drip problem of portable AC as well.
Brenics ~ Just to point out I do believe Chris Roberts is going down as the man who cheated backers and took down crowdfunding for gaming.
Some basic physics: Energy does never disappear nor decrease. You can move energy around, and change its form, but you can never decrease the amount of energy.
Heat is energy too. Computer coolers, whether it's a fan or a water cooling system, work by transferring heat outside the computer case. Because energy can never disappear nor decrease, a computer cooler won't decrease the heat transferred from computer to the room at all. At best it has zero effect, at worst it only makes things worse since the energy used by cooler ends up as more heat in the room.
I used to have this problem when I had an old card a GTX 480 it used to warm my room up considerably. The card ran up to 93 degrees in summer.
I got my new computer which is running very low the heat on the GTX 770 at about 35 degrees when idle but when I play Dragon Age I it goes up to 83 degrees and 70 degrees with Witcher 3. No idea why Dragon Age I heats up the card more. Anyway the heat production is not like it used to be when I got the original Alienware water cooling system in 2010. This model although it looks exactly the same except for the movable vents on top now they are just holes on top is doing a better job at keeping the heat down since the back of the computer is not blasting heat now.
A window unit AC is probably the most cost effective way to reliably cool a small space. You can also turn it on and off as needed making it more efficient.
If you want to get into really, really cheap though, you can make a $20 camping cooler based AC unit.
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/06/27/can-you-really-beat-the-heat-with-a-20-d-i-y-air-conditioner-we-give-it-a-try/
As long as you can produce ice for it, you can keep a small room space pretty cool. It will likely increase the humidity of the space you're in too though, so keep that in mind.
I remember that card, for two years i had to have the PC right up at the window and it was left open all year long.
This is far far from effective especially if your not buying the ice and making it in your freezer, I know i tried various methods of this as experiments years ago.
Normal AC in window is best option.
Brenics ~ Just to point out I do believe Chris Roberts is going down as the man who cheated backers and took down crowdfunding for gaming.
________________________
Two atoms walk out of a bar. The first exclaims, "Damn, I forgot my electrons." The other replies, "You sure?". The first explains, "Yea, I'm positive."
My initial thought was, was the room actually heating up, or were long gaming sessions raising the OP's blood-pressure...?
For every minute you are angry , you lose 60 seconds of happiness."-Emerson
Heating a room using a computer does not use any less power than heating it using an electric heater would.
I had this issue bad in florida, I live in a raised wood frame house so I got creative.
Air under my house tends to be cooler than outside ambient temp.
I made a vented built in beside each desk floor to ceiling , cut a floor vent, and placed in a washable filter over it.
Then cut and installed a bathroom ceiling vent with exhaust fan into the attic.
Drilled wiring holes where needed.
Insulated it with rigid insulation.
Wahla.. no more PC heat or noise, reduced dust in the machines and they still maintain reasonable operating temps.
Generally:
Heat is typically cheaper to produce than cooling via electricity (nearly anything electrical can produce heat, it takes specialized equipment to produce cooling).
And
Heating can often be produced via other even less expensive means (gas, oil, solar, geothermal, etc). Cooling can in certain situations, but not as easily or readily.
So I would doubt it cancels out.