Sunday, April 11, 2010

New Gaming Computer + High Room Temperature -- Is it okay?

Hi,I am planning to build a new computer, but unfortunately, my room gets pretty hot in the summer (it's situated right above the garage).I really don't know anything about heat and computers, so I'm wondering will my new rig be damaged by the high heat at all? My room reaches around 86 degrees farenheit everyday in the summer.If so, do you have any suggestions as how to keep the temperature low within the machine? I don't think keeping the fan on would really help, since it would just be blowing the hot air from the room through the machine. I really don't want to resort to moving my computer out of my room.My planned system loadout, at the moment, is: Hard Drive = 320 GB x2Processor = Quad CoreReader = DVD Burner x2Motherboard = P5N32-E SLI PlusMemory = 2 GB RAMCase = Antec Nine HundredPower Supply = GameXStream 700 wVideo Card = Nvidia 8800 GTS 320 MBThank you!New Gaming Computer + High Room Temperature -- Is it okay?
Get a Zalman CNPS 9500AT Processor cooler %26 you will be fine. You casing has alot of fans so no problemsNew Gaming Computer + High Room Temperature -- Is it okay?
You should be completely fine, my room runs about 80 farenheit in the summer and my PC isn't that far off from yours.My CPU temps are typically always under 40 C and my GPU is between 50-60 C
It will be ok. In my room was 34C and my CPU has 42C under load and 76C for GPU
you could use a 600W version of that power supply and run that rig easy to keep the temps down, but that PSU should run quite cool the 120mm fan should keep it cool (i have the 600W version)That card will juck out alot of heat (i've got an EVGA superclocked one), it makes the whole area around the card hot and i'm sure more heat is coming out of it than the 120mm just by my CPU cooler.Try a gigabyte motherboard, i've got a P35 DS3R and could not be more pleased, it overclocks so eisely and is really easy to build on (this was my first self build), the site gives loads of compatibility info and the manual is very very good, plus the chips on it are supposed to keep it cooler than other boards.keeping the fan on would help in theory as the inside of your computer will probably be much higher than 80 degrese but the cooling on that case should work well enoough. Make sure the CPU cooler is firmly attached to the motherboard, mine wasn't and it went up to 50-60C idle but after it was fixed the temps are half as high and the processors over twice as fast (was underclocked before to prevent crashes).
Thank you all! From what you've said, it sounds like my PC will run safely under those temperatures.However, I'm interested as in what power supply I should get. The way I see it, the more power, the better(?). Am I correct? I'm pretty sure my rig requires a good amount of power anyway, so I decided to go for the 700w instead of 600w. Also, my old computer's hard drive or something got messed up because of a problem with the power supply (I have no idea what happened though), so I thought it'd be safer for me to go with a higher power supply.So basically, what power supply would you reccommend for my rig?
Bump.
Maybe you could get a small air conditioner for the window, keeps you and your computer cool. I figure if you can drop 300 on a quad cpu, you can spend 100 bucks on a window ac to keepyou and the pc cool.

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