How to absorb heat generated from PC during gaming ?

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What is the best/cost saving way to reduce heat in a room generated by hot gaming pc, without turning on air-con? For e.g. making big blocks of ice from fridge or sth? Thanks.
 

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Get a desk/standing fan to blow hot air out of room.
 

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To reduce heat generated, reduce the load on the PC.

As the load increases, power consumption increases which produces more heat.

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What is the best/cost saving way to reduce heat in a room generated by hot gaming pc, without turning on air-con? For e.g. making big blocks of ice from fridge or sth? Thanks.

Blower with duct hose.
 

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Data center we have air vents blowing up from the floor one.
 

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open window and use $20 standfan from Giant supermarket or qoo10
 

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You can try the following method.

1) Change your entire room setup and place your PC desk towards the window. Then place the PC on your desk so your PC literally blows the hot air out of your house.

2) Try liquid cooling both CPU and GPU. My room is a lot less hotter and doesn't heat up as fast as before ever since I hybrid cooled my GPU lowering the overall GPU temps and heat output.

3) Bitwit made a video where he dumps the AIO radiator into a bucket full of ice water. It has the same effect in cooling down your system without the fans blowing hot air from the radiator into your room. Might be messy but it's super effective. But you need to place a liquid cooler on your GPU as well to fully utilize this method.



4) Use aircon to offset the heat produced by your PC.

5) Maybe buy the waterproof spray and spray on your entire build before submerging them under water like this server. (Very risky)


Original video from Facebook
 
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get some thing to pad below your notebook if that is what you are using for gaming, if elevated the air below can circulate better and remove heat.
if using desktop pc, make sure you are in a well ventilated area or even better in air-con room. or you can get those air cooler or just normal fan to blow directly at it.
 

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First, download and install HWinfo64 from https://www.hwinfo.com/download.php, screenshot or take the CPU temperature readings without load and during load, so that we can see how hot your PC is running and to help you better.

Some free or cheap ways to reduce the heat before you consider liquid cooling, mineral oil cooling, etc...

(1) Remove the dust from the internal components (CPU fan, casing fans, etc...) in your PC. Switch off the power and remove the power cord first. Don't use a vacuum cleaner on your motherboard as the static charge can kill the components.

(2) Check whether your CPU cooler fan is properly seated and CPU thermal paste had dried or not. If the CPU cooler fan is improperly seated or the thermal paste had dried, then remove the existing thermal paste and reapply before installing the CPU cooler fan.

(3) Reorganize or manage your internal cables so that airflow is better.

(4) Adding more casing fans and installing a better CPU cooler fan.

(5) Check whether all your CPU cooler fans and casing fans are working.
 
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You can't absorb the heat generated, the air takes care of it for you but water cooling DOES NOT cool down the room unless the water cooling in question is a bong cooler attached somewhere else

Whether you are on water cooling or air cooling if the heat dissipated is into your room, your room will heat up regardless if you don't open the windows or have a stand fan...


Or you can attach a duct from the pc exhaust to the window with a fan on the end :s13:
 
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