my desktop heats up my entire room +5 to 10 degrees!
 

Since I've moved, my new office is slightly smaller than my old one in my apartment, however I've noticed the room is 5 to 10 degrees HOTTER than any other room in the house.

Of course it is the PC giving off heat and I've even had to call in an HVAC guy to give me some estimates in dual zone AC :helpme

Anyone have a cooling or venting system on the back of their tower? I was about to go rig something up to blow the hot air out the window or something, this is getting a bit out of control

Same here, pc kill's it and I have two 24" monitors - I call them heat lamps. When it gets 110-120 outside, it pushes the temp's in my office up and the pc reboots.

Put a fan blowing into the room, fans don't cool the air down they move it around, so you need to pull in cooler air first. Then put one by the PC to displaces the warm air, mine blows into a corner and up the wall... pushing the hot air up so the ac vents have a chance to cool that air, when they run.

What way does the room face - you're going to have more trouble cooling it if it faces the sun all day.

i have same problem, i need AC

And about this bit-

You can have a pipe for the computer to blow the hot air out of the room but you will also need a way for the air blown out to be replaced. Whether you have a grill at the bottom of the door to suck air in from the rest of the building or whether you have a hole in the coolest wall for air to come in from a shaded part of outside but it's no good sucking in outside air if its going to be hot too.

Hot air is easier to shift than cold air and its a long time since I had to do the calculations for anything but you want a bigger inlet area on the room than the outlet.

I have one of these, they work great. Trying to sell it right now actually, don't need it anymore. However, running one of these with a standard central air system running at the same time may not be all that efficient.

I blow air into my office from the hallway with a fan. Helps a lot.

Old people tend to keep their houses warm ... tell mom the basement is to hot.


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Yup, might have to consider a room change. If possible...

me = laptop only

I had to buy a laptop cooling station to keep my Macbook running at a decent temp!

Hmm yes i have same problem here,my room is hottest in entire house,but is it really that happening because of pc?

I use a fan to blow the heat out of my room into the hall near the thermostat so it makes the ac kick on sooner.

I hear ya, I have 6 computers on 24/7 here, nice in winter (I don't even need to open the central heating vent) but in summer it gets super hot.

I have a portable A/C which helps with spot cooling but on really hot days the compressor just runs constantly and can't keep up. On some days the room temp climbs past 35C/95F and that's WITH the A/C going full tilt for hours.

I wouldn't bother with a portable A/C if I were you, they are very inefficient. For starters they need movement of room air to exhaust the heat outside, which means they're pulling air they've just cooled.

You might want to look at what's generating the heat, if it's something simple like an older less efficient CPU then changing that may end up cheaper in the long run than what you'll spend trying to remove the extra heat. :2 cents: My wife has a Pentium D (the heat of a P4, doubled!) and the exhaust from her comp is like a foot warmer.

5-10 degrees just because of PC? I call it BS, my PC does not heat my room even 2 degrees, maybe 1 at bets, and it runs all day long

I have the same problem. My office is always a solid 10 degrees warmer then the rest of the house. It's gotten a bit better with my new rig, running cooler but its still unbearable in the summer. I'm getting a portable AC unit so I don't have to turn on the main AC for the whole house.

I have three desktops, 2 iMacs and 2 30'' monitors...the central air works overtime in this room.

same problem - it's the monitor. i have a/c and it's still hot in front of the computer or 30plus Celsius days.

Well,looks like my new 27 inch samsung monitor doesn't produce any heat,it's totally cold when i touch it.

Open up the side of the tower. Get a fan. Blast fan into computer. On a hot day, this can make the difference between running hot but working, and running hot and shutting itself off to prevent damage.

Make sure the fan is blowing with any fans inside the case, so angle it properly. IF you don't, it places stress on the bearings in the fans and can cause premature bearing failure. Replacing fans is a pain in the ass :(

edit: My gaming PC, which is what I'm on now, has 9 fans. I still have the side off because of how hot it is in here. Download a temperature monitor like CoreTemp. It gives you the temperatures of your CPU(s). IF they get up towards 50c, that's pretty damn hot ofr a CPU.

we have central air and my office(man cave) gets alot of sun causing it to be the warmest room in the house, so I put in a small window air conditioner.

Go for a window or a small split system unit instead. Both are quieter than a portable A/C (the split system a lot more so), the noise of a compressor running in a normal sized room will drive you mad.

What are the specs of the computer? Perhaps it is worth just getting a new more energy efficient model.
What are you doing with it? Do you have it set to throttle the processor depending on the load?
My old machines are about 300 watts each at full load, but my newer HP G310 dual core xeon 2.8 only runs at 45 watts (not including the monitor)

Yea no doubt.

These are the suggestions I'd go with.

In fact my side fan is the one that blows air out of my PC, and that air is actually cool, not warm at all.

Window AC unit is the way to go for an office not getting enough air flow from the rest of the house or apartment.

its a pretty decent size gaming computer that I bought from my brother. had about half a dozen fans and a cooling system (cost him some serious $$ to build it). it feels like a majority of the heat is coming from the power supply area and the other fans blow out the bottom and middle of the tower.

plus i'm running 4 22" LCD monitors... its just draining power and causing a ton of heat.

on top of it the sun hits the top of the house in the afternoon and just cooks the front for the rest of the day into the evening. right now its not bad at all, but during the day I have the ceiling fan running to try and suck up the hot air and a tower fan on high trying to circulate the cold air around a bit.

portable AC unit isnt an option, there is no room and they are a pain in the ass. im looking into a few HVAC zones and if they are reasonable, I will setup a 3 zone system

You're calling bullshit on this? Why would anyone lie about the temperature of their office? :1orglaugh

What CPU does it have? Like I said above, an upgrade may pay for itself.

My old Pentium D was Intel's flagship at the time, now it gets beaten (in benchmarks anyway) by a low end E3200 Celeron. The newer CPU is also far more efficient, which means less heat generated.