My bedroom gets insanely hot! What can I do?

Yea the hottest my room ever gets is 30C and I have my server and HTPC on all the time in my bedroom, one good thing about working nights in this weather is it's nice and cool at work during the night! It's like a bloody oven during the day
 
Gangster said:
How does it get to that temperature though? Are you guys running like 5 computers with Vapochills and got the heating on or something? Do you not open the windows?

Or am I really missing something?
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Your missing having a bedroom that has a large bay window with double glazing facing the south collecting heat from the sun from morning until night.

I used to open the windows but not now I have A/C, I find it funny that some people even reply with "open a window" or "buy a fan", I think it's pretty safe to assume that many people that complain about the heat have already tried this or are doing that atm.
 
I think the key thing that a lot of people are missing is leave the doors open inside you house to let the air move, I know we are all conditioned to close doors to keep the heat in and sum of you guys need to hide your computer screens from your mums/flatmates/wives but really opening a window without opening the door is a waste of time.
 
Gangster said:
What do you do if you go on a summer holiday? I know people who go on holiday and have the works, hat with neck guard, 50+ sun block cream and sit in the shade all day under the umbrella at the beach. I seriously obut you'd be able to warm up quite nicely at -30c lol.

Besides, you can cool down for free in the heat (shade) you can't warm up for free ;)
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When on summer holidays, I spend a lot of the time in the pool. If i'm not in the pool, i'm inside in an air-con'd room.

As for warming up in the freezing cold, i've been to Canada in January and it was -25 at points. My normal winter clothing here is jeans and t-shirt/rolled up jumper and occasionally a light jacket, over there, I only wore a hat as extra. I really don't feel the cold. and you can warm up for free, it's called moving around ;)
 
My air conditioner is noisy and adds like 40$ a month to the power bill. Especially trying to keep up with a hot computer. There is not any one thing I do but a bunch of smaller things that can really add up.

-cheap frozen Popsicles
-move the computer and yourself out of a small corner into a more open space.
-fan blowing out one window and open another and put your computer desk near cross breeze
-very short hair cut
-under-clock everything a little. Also I have an old 8800gt I can install for the worst month or two.
-get a cheap laptop and leave the big computer off most of the day
-use the new low energy bulbs. A new 30W=150W if you have 3-4 of these on around the house then this alone can save 400W for a 5$ pack of light-bulbs.

My current LCD TV uses 160W + 40W receiver + 120W TVPC. Next year I will be getting a nice 40W LED LCD TV and ill be able to have the TV on all summer no problem.
 
When my new laptop arrives I think I'll be using that a lot more and keeping my desktop off. It should keep the temps down.
 
Oh right and force v-sync on it can make a big noise/heat difference. Use a lot more juice to make 180fps instead of 60fps.

I was playing some like old game one summer and all my fans suddenly started spinning way up and I couldn't figure out why it was acting like it was playing Crysis. Turned out v sync wasn't working and making 450fps was apparently quite a bit of work my computer.
 
Sell your pc and get a laptop. It doesn't matter if your PC is watercooled, its still dumping a load of heat energy into your room unless you have the rad mounted outside.

Also pay someone to install a ceiling fan.
 
open window, close curtains/blinds which ever u have.
That way breese can get in, but the closed curtains/blinds stop some heat getting in. room slightly cooler!

or buy a fan
 
Janesy B said:
Which will just blow warm air around the room?
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Have you actually experienced a fan, or indeed motion through warm air?

Obviously not, with such a silly reply. Have you ever felt a breeze? That air is the same temperature as the rest of the air around you and yet feels cooling.

Some people must live in perspex cages.
 
Redman said:
Have you actually experienced a fan, or indeed motion through warm air?
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Have you actually experienced Janesy B, or indeed raw stupidity?

That's probably the most intelligent thing I've read by him on these forums :p.

Fans do indeed work. Only problem I find is that they wake me up in the night.
 
No I haven't experienced a fan, at the age of 22, oh woe is me.

It is quite clear that a fan is not the best solution when there is excess heat from a PC in a small room, trust me I should know, I had to take my PC out of my bedroom because it turned it into an oven.
 
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Redman said:
Ever opened the window on that slightly dodgy motor in your sig whilst moving? There's a clue right there ;)
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Read my edit, and then read the OP. Also what is dodgy about my car? Why do I really want to be battered in the face with a 70MPH wind?

It's quite clear the OP needs more than a fan to dissipate the excess heat in the room. A fan would be okay in a normal room without a PC generating a lot of heat, with the PC, you have to remove the PC or air condition the room somehow if it's really that bad.
 
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