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[iamwhoiamtoday]

Today is a fairly warm day where I live, and the room with my computer in it is roasting. It will get even hotter during the summer. Does anyone know of any good ways of getting rid of the heat? My computer does put off TONS of heat. the 8800gts is fairly warm, my Core 2 isn't very hot, but it seems to me that lots of heat is coming off of my PSU. Would going to liquid cooling for my Graphics card and CPU help to cool down the room? Or should I add a lot of fans? (to the room and my computer) Would a better PSU cool things down? (I have a Rosewill 550watt that's about 1.5 years old.)
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[tonycarr]

Even though my house is central air conditioned , I have a window A/C unit in the computer room . Input temp is the biggest factor in computer cooling . In the winter my rigs run in the 30 C's , summer 40C's , cpu temps .
Fans just blow hot air around in the room .
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[Twisty]

EDIT: Now I have read through this again, I went a bit off topic. If your PSU is getting very hot then this may be making it more inefficient and therefore adding fans to get more air through may make it produce a bit less heat, however basically no matter how many fans/water cooling you add to your computer, all it is doing is pulling the heat away from it quicker (hence making it cooler) but the amount of heat being dumped into your room will be exactly the same.

So basically you are looking at adding more ventilation to your room; adding blings/tinting to the window, air conditioning, geo thermal heat transfer , etc.

Original post below as I went to all the effort of writing it.. but it does not answer your question...

Basically the difference in temperature between your room, case and CPU remain relatively constant, so if your room temp goes up 10deg then your case and CPU temp will too.

Adding fans to the case will pull down the difference in temp between your room and case temperatures, therefore bringing down CPU temps.

Using a g/card heat sink that vents directly out of the case will bring down case temps and hence CPU temps.

Using fan/ducting to direct cooler air from room to CPU will bring down CPU temp.

Water cooling will bring down the difference between CPU temp and case temp, hence lower CPU temp. It can lower case temperatures as well if you configure it in the right way (i.e. heat from CPU exhausting straight out of case), if you have the radiator totally out of the case then you bring temps down further as it has cooler room air cooling it than case air.
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[MrCraigCraig]

[kuhltwo]

I am building a custom case to go back to the old laydown flat type of the IBM desktop days. I am wondering about using a single fan on the side bringing in flitered air, ducted to the heat components, the Processor, the chipsets, and anything else that wants to get warm. And then exiting (by fan) out the opposing side. (Right to Left). My main question is the need for fans inside for the processor, and power supply. I have to filter the air due to serious dust problem in my home.
I am using a gigbyte bd, AMD Duron (2.+ Ghz) 80g HD, and a 500w powersupply. it's not for serious gaming, just my wife's photos, bills, movies, etc.

[MrCraigCraig]

[kuhltwo]

I too had a IBM 486 Desktop, I donated it and about 5 other boxes of computer stuff to a local man who was building computers for the local schools. I like some of the examples you showed me. My wife wants a wood front. So you kow what it's going to be on the front.
I looked at water cooling yesterday, thanx to the links here. It may be the way to go, since room is not going to be an issue.

[MrCraigCraig]

Glad to be of assistance. Wood is an elegant material to use. I imagine your build will produce a nice result. Hope you'll be able to share some photos with us when you're finished.

Sincerely,
MrCraigCraig
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