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Hai guys & girls

I have this problem with my PC. It's been beautifull weather outside lately and i have been noticing an incredible increase of temperature on my room.

PC SPECS

- CPU: Intel Core i7 950 @ 3.07GHz 58 ?C (stock fan, stock fan speed, turbo mode to 3.4GHz)
- RAM: 6,00 GB Triple-Channel DDR3
- Motherboard: ASUSTeK Computer INC. P6T SE (LGA1366) 50 ?C (complete stock)
- Monitor: SMXL2370HD
- GPU: ATI RADEON 5970 HD 48?C (not overclocked, fans at 100% (VERY noisy))
- Harddrive: SAMSUNG HD103SJ 32 ?C
- PSU: 1000 Watt PSU from Antec
- CASE: Coolermaster HAF 932

The problem:

The problem is that I'm on the room where I sleep. If I am for a longer time on my computer, like in weekends (I have summer vacations so i'll be alot on my pc), it tends to get very hot. Temperatures went up to 35?C in my room. The question is, how do i cool down my room without 'less time on PC or opening a window' solutions. They wont work because i use th is computer for work. I don't have a descent laptop that i can use so i can't move my PC. Window is open day and night. door is mostly too.

If anyone could help me with this I would be really happy. If I have to replace certain fans or hardware feel free to post (as long it's not like 1000€)

Hottest part
The hottest parts of my PC are
the CPU (i don't know of 60? is normal or not. It's alot hotter then it was in the winter (50-55? on load)
the GPU (on idle with stock fan speed 70+?, when gaming 90?+. Then the drivers make the fans fasters. On full speed 43? on idle and 50-60? on load.)
the PSU (i have no idea what temperature it reaches but when i put my hand near the fan of my PSU, theres alot of heat comming out.)
Motherboard: wtf is with that? 50? on idle ;s.
external hard drives: I have 2 external HDD's. one of 1 TB and one of 2 TB. The 1TB HDD gets a temp of 43? max on load. The 2 TB can go up to 56?. They don't give errors or erase data but it gets very hot in them.

All ideas are welcome and sorry for the uber long post ;p
 
Well, your computer is going to produce the same heat regardless. The heat has to go somewhere, so it is going in your room. When you make a component cooler, all that means is you are transferring more heat away from it and thus heating up your room even more.

As for your temps, not sure about the mobo one. The cpu seems fine (but ambient temp can have a dramatic effect on temps, even a few degrees increase in the room). So if 60 C is the load temp, that is not terrible at all. Keeping it under 70 stock or 80 oced is a good rule of thumb for the i7 9xx. Do you have an aftermarket cooler btw? The GPU seems a little too high for my liking at over 90 C during load. I realize on full the fan gets unbearable, but if you can manually increase it somewhere between the two to get it in the 80s, I would be happier. Simply reduces the life of the component having it hotter, but the 5xxx series runs a bit hot as it is, and the 5970 especially. But being able to get it in the 50-60 range on full makes me think that cooling is not a huge problem here either.

Your only real option is the AC in your room.
 
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what's AC?
What do you mean with a aftermarket cooler?
90? for the GPU is the max that i noticed in the last 3 weeks
Would water cooling solve anything?
 
AC is air conditioner.

Aftermarket cooler refers to the heatsink on your cpu. Is it the standard one that came with the processor or did you buy one yourself that has improved cooling capacity?

90 C is using the default fan profile, not the 100% which you set yourself, correct? As I said, 90+ is slightly high when compared to what anandtech was getting:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/2877/16

Not sure what there fan was set to, but If you could get into the 80s, that would be wise if you can tolerate the noise. You don't need to set it at 100%, but try something slightly higher than what it is now.

As for water cooling, this would help with your component temps. You have the same problem though. Your cpu, gpu, etc. will produce the same amount of heat as before. However, all you are doing with better cooling is removing the heat from them more efficiently. The problem is, when you remove more of it from the component, all you are doing is transferring it to your surroundings. Thus, the cooler you keep your components, the hotter your room will be. Thus, water cooling will actually have the opposite effect you want (beyond cooling your components better).
 
You could get a window unit:

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Bout the only thing I can think of.
 
If anyone else has any ideas, feel free to post. Yesterday i noticed a diffrence. I put my GPU fans on 100% from the beginning keeping it down at 45? idle and 55? on load.

Also, what would be the first thing to upgrade on my PC?
 
Are you talking about how hot your components are getting or how hot your room is getting? Because again, your components will generate the same amount of heat regardless. If you cool your computer more efficiently, than that heat is going into your room. That is the physics of it.
 
the heat of my room. My components are fine as far as I know; sometimes they go high but then i just enable my fans on max ^^
 
Slayer, I think what Huckleberry is trying to tell you is the temperature of your room is going to affect the temperature of your hardware if the room is hot. A good example of this is a server room. If the server room does not have air conditioners keeping the server room at the desired temperature, the equipment will end up heating up and have poor performance or fail due to high heat. The room temperature your hardware is operating in is important too. I hope this helps you better understand. I also would not recommend running your fans at 100% manually all the time. Let the operating system monitor and control fan speeds unless you are an advanced user with the understanding of what you're doing.
 
That was part of it. But he was also asking if better cooling of his components {such as water cooling) would help improve his problem (his room getting hotter). And the answer is no, it will actually make it worse. Because with better cooling of his components, more heat is transferred to the air in his room. So while his temps seem okay on his gpu/cpu (but room temp is definitely an important factor in keeping these down), the only way to improve your room temp is by directly cooling the air in your room (aka AC).
 
I'm your huckleberry said:
That was part of it. But he was also asking if better cooling of his components {such as water cooling) would help improve his problem (his room getting hotter). And the answer is no, it will actually make it worse. Because with better cooling of his components, more heat is transferred to the air in his room. So while his temps seem okay on his gpu/cpu (but room temp is definitely an important factor in keeping these down), the only way to improve your room temp is by directly cooling the air in your room (aka AC).
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Moral of the story, keep your room cool.
 
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