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I was just wondering if you guys had the so called "problem" of your computer heating up your room. It really doesnt bother me thats why I called it a "problem" but I noticed if I keep my computer off while im not home (which is rare because i usually always have it on) ill come home and my room will be cold. After running my computer for about an hour or 2 itll get pretty freakin warm in here but I guess iv just gotten used to it because it doesnt bother me but other people come in here and they are like WOW its hot in here blah blah. Anyway i was just wondering if this happend to anyone else. The room is about 12x13 too btw.
eaglescouter
11-03-03, 09:07 PM
Yup! My computers heat the back half of the house. It's nice now that the weather has cooled off, but this summer it was a bit of a problem.
At work I am building two P4 3.2Ghz machines and I really feel the difference in my 150 square foot office. They really heat things up.
Yea, same here. My computer is on all the time, in addition to my laptop being on 24/7. My room is the hottest room in the house. Its fine in the winter because I just close the heat vents in my room, but in the summer sometimes I have to sleep in a different room. It does get really hot in here sometimes.
Matt
Originally posted by eaglescouter
Yup! My computers heat the back half of the house. It's nice now that the weather has cooled off, but this summer it was a bit of a problem.
At work I am building two P4 3.2Ghz machines and I really feel the difference in my 150 square foot office. They really heat things up.
haha the whole back of the house...thats crazy I like the part about the weather or the temp too cause if the a/c temp is pretty low and its cold throughout the house its always warm in my room and im a tropical person haha
eaglescouter
11-03-03, 09:13 PM
Yes I can heat the whole back of the house. Just a few boxes churning out SETI work units. This fall I swapped out the old slow boxes for some heavy hitting 3.2Ghz P4's. Now running 5 PC's in the computer room, totaling 13.4Ghz, 2 more coming on line in the next few weeks.
Yuriman
11-03-03, 09:16 PM
I have 3 pc's strategically placed in my house. I never use the heater, and in the winter its a nice 75f.
Fast420A
11-03-03, 09:18 PM
I've only got 4 in my computer room running full load folding and it will get up to the mid 90's in there in the summer with the A/C set on 75. That room is going to feel great with no heat running this winter! :)
Originally posted by Yuriman
I have 3 pc's strategically placed in my house. I never use the heater, and in the winter its a nice 75f.
I like that idea.
Just another thing....Have you guys ever had your computer pull so much power from a power outlet that other stuff couldnt be ran on it? I had this problem during the summer...I went outta town and took the big ole' beast with me and had it plugged into one of those things that you can plug 6 things into 1 socket with and this thing had my computer,monitor,a "in window a/c",and some other crap hooked to it. When I had my computer on the "in window a/c" couldnt be turned on or it would suck juice from the monitor and the monitor would turn off and if you got that far the compressor for the a/c wouldnt come on haha but with a different computer plugged in or none at all it was just fine.
Yes it does!!! my room is the hottest room in the whole house. imagine, its already fall and it feels like summer in my room. i had to put back my a/c on the window to help me cool my room.
My computers heat the whole upstairs in my house, especially the small 10 x 12 room they are in, when you walk through the door way... which HAS to be kept open at all times(except the summer when its closed all the time with the AC on) you can feel a wall of heat as you pass through the door, the upstairs in my house never drops below 75 and the heat up here is completely off :eek:
dalilman52
11-03-03, 09:48 PM
LOL SCREW A/C get an overclocked rig!!!
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CrystalMethod
11-03-03, 10:10 PM
Yep, the 5 I got in here heat up the room quite nicely in the winter. Kind of a pain in hte butt in the summer though. It's the three monitors in here though that really heat things up when they're all on at the same time.
9mmCensor
11-03-03, 10:15 PM
Yeah my computer heats my room up, and its really small too. Thats one reason i din't get a TEC.
login211
11-03-03, 10:29 PM
last year at univ the place i lived in had an a55hole of a landlord and all the guys living on the bottom floor had cold, very cold rooms except for mine....
my roommates always noticed that it was always nice and warm in my room for some reason... thank you to Mr. Palomino!
vonkaar
11-03-03, 10:31 PM
If I left my cooling system in a closed room (little ventilation) I would have paint peeling from the walls. The heat that is blown off 10 TECs (peltiers) is enough to heat my whole home... fortunately it's vented outside =p.
Otherwise, yes... the heatercores and system fans add a decent amount of heat to the room.
holy good god....what do you have your 10 tecs on? a water chiller or something?
vonkaar
11-03-03, 10:42 PM
Aye. There have been a few threads on it but it's all in 'testing' at this stage. I'll probably have a finished article on the whole experiment in 6 weeks or so. But yeah... it's hot.
sounds cool.....good luck
BowerR64
11-03-03, 11:00 PM
my room gets pretty toasty too, my tv one LCD and one CRT. At night i turn everything off and i freeze.
yea...if i turn it all off i freeze my balls off at night....but if i leave it on (and can fall asleep due to it sounding like a tornado) i sweat
Silversinksam
11-03-03, 11:09 PM
I have two 120mm Panflos on a ac/dc converter affixed to my A/c vent and this helps get more cool air into my office. :rolleyes:
bigsoomo
11-03-03, 11:38 PM
dude my computer makes my azz sweat like a monkey...when it gets cold i jus leave it on and it heats up my whole room!
Codeman05
11-03-03, 11:39 PM
my room rises a good 5-8 degrees F with my primary rig running...waiting for those winter temps lol
schismspeak
11-03-03, 11:45 PM
My room is the warmest room in the house; in the summer. I keep my door shut in the winter cause we keep the rest of the house around 76°F in the winter and my room will get hotter than in the summer.
Right now I have my window open and it is 73° in here, and 40° outside.
bchur83
11-04-03, 01:01 AM
I have around 20 computers running in my basement ranging from Pentium 133's to an athlon 500. I figured if I put them in the basement, heat rises and it heats part of the house. OR at least assists the furnace. They run seti 24/7 and run quite warm.
Korangar
11-04-03, 01:09 AM
Yeah, my computer heats up my room also and the whole downstairs area also, pretty crazy considering I live in MN with pretty darn cold winters.
Silversinksam
11-04-03, 01:14 AM
Originally posted by Codeman05
my room rises a good 5-8 degrees F with my primary rig running...waiting for those winter temps lol
I had to add the two 120mm fans to my A/c duct because It's never cold in the Sunshine state. God played an evil trick on me. When I first came down here to Florida to evaluate if I could live here being from New England, 7 years ago the first day I was here it snowed lightly and was hovering around 30 degrees in Dec. I said I can live here!! ...For 6 years now I have waited for a cold snap let alone a 50-60*farenheit day......I haven't turned my heat on in years. But My A/c has never stopped running. I bet if I do turn my heat on I'll die from carbon monaxide due to the heater not being used in years. :eek:
Fast420A
11-04-03, 03:14 AM
What part of HELL, I mean, FL are you in?
dagamore
11-04-03, 03:35 AM
while i runn all of my systems all the time, i noticed that the heat issue went away, after i started turning off the monitors and video cards when they are not in use (all but main system 10 min idle shut off) and i noticed a 7-8c drop in temp and i know i am using alot less power with 2 of the 3 19 inch montiors off most of the time.
NcBaller1985
11-04-03, 03:57 AM
MY computer heats my my enitre apartment...that isn't saying much since it's a 1 bedroom loft...but in the summer...omfg.....I have to leave the AC on almost 24/7!!!! My PC is downstairs and since heat rises...during winter it is nice and cozy in my open upstairs bedroom. :D
MaxiKana
11-04-03, 08:14 AM
Now that ive got a comp in my room, in the winter my room NEVER gets cold and i have the radiator off.
voodoomelon
11-04-03, 08:51 AM
It seems everyone is saving a fortune on heating bills. Generally when i come home from college, the temp in my room is about 17*C. I turn on the PC and by midnight, its usually 25/26*C. Thats 9*Celsius increase.:eek:
I'd swear its the 19" monitor, as much as the rig, if I touch the back of it its well warm - you can actually feel the heat rising out of it. And the whole setup is in the center of the 14' X 9' room, so that doesn't help matters. The amp on the DTT3500 gives off a strange amount off heat too.
Opening the window helps loads, it usually bout 5*C at night these days...:(
Silversinksam
11-04-03, 09:08 AM
Originally posted by Fast420A
What part of HELL, I mean, FL are you in?
1 hour ten minutes from Tampa International, coming from the South. ;)
Fast420A
11-04-03, 12:17 PM
Oh so your near Bradenton and Sarasota area. Cool!
Mr.Guvernment
11-04-03, 12:59 PM
mine does - wtih 3 19" trinitrons and 5 computers my room gets toasty sometimes - i dont really notice it until i leave my rom as we have a very large open house - and then one day i walked into my room andwas like DEUM! it is hot in here! so take off all your clothes!
type deal.
who needs a furnace!
NiTrO bOiE
11-04-03, 02:04 PM
Yep, I've got 4 computers in one room. To make it worse it's the sunroom out of all places in the house. The bad thing is my main rig crapped out on me, so now it's not so hot in here anymore.
Polariz
11-04-03, 02:26 PM
My CPU is at steady 67C, i'd say thats about the most efficient heating element ill ever need :D
rivercom9
11-04-03, 08:38 PM
Yeah my computer is the only heater in this house. :P
Cyrix_2k
11-04-03, 09:08 PM
My laptop + 19in monitor + my rig = HOT in the summer.
AFIsoldier
11-04-03, 09:16 PM
my room with one rig = hottest dadgum room in the house! but then again coldest cause it forces me to keep the window open which makes the room nice and chilly which is always good for me and compy
AcidBurn52383
11-04-03, 10:58 PM
my room is the basement of our house.. and now that its getting cold out.. i just leave my system up and running all night and it keeps me nice and warm... ill soon be running both of my rigs non stop so it might get too hot in here...
-AcidBurn-
Sterculus
11-04-03, 11:36 PM
During the winter, I leave the window open and it's still warm in my room. Of course, I have three overclocked PCs in here (2 1700+ watercooled, and on P4), so it gets toasty. During the summer it gets really bad :p.
nunez1980
11-04-03, 11:54 PM
well I told my mom that I didn't need a heater, but she wouldn't believe me until she entered my room:D
2-monitors
3-computers, and two with compressors, my room is nice and warm,
she was in total shock:D
9mmCensor
11-04-03, 11:58 PM
I cant wait till febuary. It's the coldest then, so I open my window and cool my hole room down about 10 degrees and runs some benchies...
jhbball
11-05-03, 12:43 AM
Originally posted by creepy
I was just wondering if you guys had the so called "problem" of your computer heating up your room. It really doesnt bother me thats why I called it a "problem" but I noticed if I keep my computer off while im not home (which is rare because i usually always have it on) ill come home and my room will be cold. After running my computer for about an hour or 2 itll get pretty freakin warm in here but I guess iv just gotten used to it because it doesnt bother me but other people come in here and they are like WOW its hot in here blah blah. Anyway i was just wondering if this happend to anyone else. The room is about 12x13 too btw.
yes
john0877
11-05-03, 01:10 AM
to help with heat you could always hook up some ventilation ducts to outside and in winter have the cold air blow in and hot air out then it wont affect your room too much
BowerR64
11-05-03, 01:15 AM
i havnt really heard what caused the blackouts this year but im starting to get the picture.
voodoomelon
11-05-03, 05:20 AM
i havnt really heard what caused the blackouts this year but im starting to get the picture.
Brilliant!
Everyone on this forum should be on some kind of international dedicated power grid. :D
I wonder what the power consumption will be like on the release day of HF2?
:eek: :eek:
With my A/V Receiver, computer and monitor on it get's pretty darn hot in my room. That's why I always turn off my monitor/receiver if I let the comp on, but I'm not home.
I keep my computer on running seti as an excuse that it's "warming my room up". I don't actually think that it helps that much, but it must some. Brrr chilly.
tropicaltornado
11-05-03, 12:57 PM
my room is exetreml hot ecpecially in the winter when the heat is already now in the summer my a/c goin and its its all good :)
nosilverman
11-05-03, 02:01 PM
Yeah, my tiny room (7x10ft) is a lot warmer than other rooms in my house. I think my monitor (21" trinatron) puts out at least as much as my overclocked p4. My roughter and cable modem can get quite warm as well. My laptop cpu runs at around 70C folding! Sometime i will do an expariment and mesure how much my room heats up after turning on the comp.
my computer heats my room in the summer but its not that much of a difference now, i guess i better ramp up the fsb :D
my house is freezing year-round. my room is the only exception, but one time i had to fix it for a few days and i almost froze to death.
Originally posted by nosilverman
Yeah, my tiny room (7x10ft) is a lot warmer than other rooms in my house. I think my monitor (21" trinatron) puts out at least as much as my overclocked p4. My roughter and cable modem can get quite warm as well. My laptop cpu runs at around 70C folding! Sometime i will do an expariment and mesure how much my room heats up after turning on the comp.
Ouch.... I know its off topic but is that just the room you are in w/ your computer and stuff or your bedroom?
My PC in my University room is on 24/7 doing protein folding, and I swear my radiator has never been on once! (its getting pretty cold outside AND I have my window open a little all the time)
nosilverman
11-05-03, 06:47 PM
creepy- yeah, that is my bedroom, lol. I had to get a loft bed just to leave enough room for the computer, which sits under it, taking up 2/3 of my desk.
Originally posted by nosilverman
creepy- yeah, that is my bedroom, lol. I had to get a loft bed just to leave enough room for the computer, which sits under it, taking up 2/3 of my desk.
:\ if you sell the house or something and the home inspector people have to come look at it before you sell it...i wouldnt tell um thats a bedroom....by code the smallest bedroom is supposed to be 10x10...
Well my 2 comp make my room hot... So hot i have to take breaks from gaming. Also why my OCing sucks. My poor Barton runs 51c with a skl 900 and a noisy dam fan :) Droped one of those zalman 80c-hps on my 9500 pro and the lill bugger OCes as high as Rage3D will let it go (373.5 MHz)
johan851
11-05-03, 07:30 PM
Yeah, always keeps my room warm. It's too warm in the summer, but it's nice right now with 15F outside.
Heatsinkguy
11-05-03, 07:53 PM
Iam getting the p4 3ghz 800fsb, thermaltake case and p4 mobo tommorow. I bet that will run like a heater.
AFIsoldier
11-05-03, 07:59 PM
just closed the vent off pretty well, DUCK TAPE!!! and the window is open now..IT WAS 80oF TODAY!! so my room was dadgum toasty...hopefully it'll cool off tonight..but window=open all winter..even when it is snowing and such
very very bad case of computer heating my room here.
my room is ALWAYS at LEAST 4 degrees F warmer than all the other rooms in the house.
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