4870 heating room up!

[EvilOne]

In the winter it was great, but now with the hot days my room is roasting hot in the evening if i have my pc left on while im at work. (with the only window open lol)

Any way i can reduce the heat output when its just at idle?

Might replace it when new dx11 cards come out for something cooler, but would prefere not to spend more

 

[Ucof]

Are you sure its the PC that is heating the room up?

It has been summer recently

 

[EvilOne]

Are you sure its the PC that is heating the room up?

It has been summer recently

yep constent stream of hot air coming out the back lol.

This 1 room is much much hotter then the rest of the house because of it.

 

[Fenris]

Any way i can reduce the heat output when its just at idle?

Don't leave it on?

Alternatively, as you arn't there, you could just whack the fan up to a higher speed, the noise isn't going to bother you and it will keep it cool.

 

[UTmaniac]

Don't leave it on?

Alternatively, as you arn't there, you could just whack the fan up to a higher speed, the noise isn't going to bother you and it will keep it cool.

If you don't want the room to heat up as much and you really want to use electricity while you are not around, surely you would REDUCE the fan speed (so the heat stays in the case, although this might burn out your card)

 

[CK61938]

lol...I had my gaming PC on last night for like 2hrs...I was playing some CoD4 and when I finished, I put my hand behind the PC and sure enough there was some serious hot air blowing out...but not because the card gets hot cos the fans are on like 70% faster than normal, but cos it is so dang hot outside my room was just like a sauna...even with my gaming PC off my room is still boiling...and I only have two other PCs on 24/7. Oh did I mention I use a 4870X2 in the gaming PC? lol...but all that should change at the weekend when I liquid cool it

But like others have said, it has to be the weather and yeah if you have a GPU like the 4870 I wouldnt advise leaving it on when ur at work...

 

[wingnuttzz]

my 9800gtx and cpu is doing the same thing. I even dropped my serious overclock to the lowest EVGA precision would allow and it made no difference at all.

I'm thinkin water cooling is a good solution atm