Changes over Summer...

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With the sample of Summer we've experienced over these past 4 days, I was wondering what main changes you do to your system to help keep temperatures down, and performance consist during games.

Now, I don't know about you folks, but my Computer room is warm; 26'C warm. This is without the PC on and with windows wide-open and fans on full with a through-draught. If I turn the PC on, temp rises to around 28'C which is pretty unbearable.

What do you do to prepare your system for hot-climate running?

(Maintenance - dust removal, additional fans, increased fan speeds, case side off etc)
 
Big desk fan directly behind me keeping me cool. Frequent dusting of the whole PC and daily re-adjusting of my spotcool fan to make sure my mosfets are being properly cooled. Also just bought an 80mm fan, which I plan to try to attach to my NB this evening. Not quite decided how yet, though.
 
I don't do anything, why should I? If you're system can't cope with summer temps then you should change it so it runs cooler and leave it like that.

I know it's tempting to having it running on the limit of temperatures in the winter so that you can eek those extra few mhz out of it, but in reality it's not worth it. Set the thing up so that the temps are fine in the absolute worst possible conditions and you'll never have to worry about it again.
 
Nothing. My main rigs are an i7 920 @ 3.8Ghz 1.24v with Radeon 5850 and Q9650 @ 3.6Ghz 1.18v with a HD4870, i7 cooled by a TRUE with two Scythe Juno 1600rpm fans which are fairly quiet and the Q9650 is cooled by an original Ultra 120 (non extreme) and a some other sycthe quiet fan i forgot the name of but was good at the time. Tried Intel burntest in a 31C ambient today and after 25 runs top temps were 76C for the i7 and 74C for the Q. All fans are set to a static speed so only noise increase was from the PSU. Nice one though is my Q9550 @ 3.6Ghz 1.2v under a Coolit Eco ALC which hit 72C top temps in IBT as well in the same room. Waiting for that Noctua on Tuesday i hope, looking foward to some more hot days, great for testing! :D
 
Knocked mine down 6.6% with 3 degrees off the voltage as well. My q6600 was hitting 80c with my Zalman Reserator. A quicker pump would help it as many people have modded, but I'm hardly going to notice 6.6%.

Ati 5850 was already undervolted. Will just live with its noise. Was thinking about shifting the zalman over to it and buying a proper cpu air cooler. But summer will have to get a fair bit hotter before I'll be motivated to do that.
 
I have spent some time today mucking about with MSI afterburner and have set my 5970 up to idle at 42 c (35%speed) and 72 c at load (despite the fan noise @ 60%).

Noise is not an issue as I play with headphones on.
 
Justintime said:
Nothing. My main rigs are an i7 920 @ 3.8Ghz 1.24v with Radeon 5850 and Q9650 @ 3.6Ghz 1.18v with a HD4870, i7 cooled by a TRUE with two Scythe Juno 1600rpm fans which are fairly quiet and the Q9650 is cooled by an original Ultra 120 (non extreme) and a some other sycthe quiet fan i forgot the name of but was good at the time. Tried Intel burntest in a 31C ambient today and after 25 runs top temps were 76C for the i7 and 74C for the Q. All fans are set to a static speed so only noise increase was from the PSU. Nice one though is my Q9550 @ 3.6Ghz 1.2v under a Coolit Eco ALC which hit 72C top temps in IBT as well in the same room. Waiting for that Noctua on Tuesday i hope, looking foward to some more hot days, great for testing! :D
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:eek: why so many high spec rigs?
 
Temi_D said:
:eek: why so many high spec rigs?
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Not exactly high end though i'd say. Much faster rigs here!

i7 - Gaming mainly, lots of disabled services and trimmed windows for max performance.

Q9650 - Previous rig, still use a lot for my documents and games already installed on it, general downloading, internet, virus catcher :D use a KVM.

Q9550- Got a Video, Tape deck, Turntable and fairly high end sound card, amp and speakers hooked up to it plus 6 DVD RW burner for multiple copies on the go, media rig mainly encoding videos to dvd, LP to Mp3 etc... Watercooler was a godsend with all the other crap in the case taking up real estate.

Also used to build custom pcs for a living, work as an IT admin, do private work and custom pcs still on the side etc.. so house is always filled with strange PC bits.
 
bifday2k said:
Windows open, raised fan speeds, and generally just living with the fact my computers gonna be running slightly hotter then normal.
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Pretty much the same for me. I did however change the CPU and GPU default thermal paste to MX-3 last week. Hope that will help a bit.

Currently thinking of getting an extra fan for case's side-panel to blow toward the Arctic Freezer Pro 7's heatsink.
 
Thinking of knocking my i7 down to 3.6ghz, currently at 4ghz, 1.2750 vcore, i can run it at 1.18vcore for 3.6ghz, fans on my TRUE are running full speed at 1350 rpm, idle temps at 39-43-38-43, 2 x gtx 275's in sli, 54c and 50c respectively, auto fan speed of 50%, knock them to 70% manual setting when gaming. By dropping the cpu down it should run a bit cooler, and still perform well enough.
 
Ive just turned my fronts fans to max, my CPU is roughly 35*c when it boots up, then after about 30minutes goes down to a nice 25*c (or under)
 
heat in my room is unbearable this time of year. I always average in the
30 C region thus i keep my window open all day and night, i also built an external switch to power on a Delta EHE fan which gets a fair amount of airflow round my room. I would avoid desk fans etc as they dont really cool the room down they just make it seem cooler - doesn't make a difference except that you dont think you need to drink as much.

One issue i had was humidity so much water vapour in my room i had o buy several plants to control humidity.
 
With plants unfortunately come flies. And with the windows being open, this means that come nighttime, you're in for an uncomfortable sleep with all those flies buzzing around/biting you etc.
 
Yes i just leave my windows open and have a fan on full blast directly behind me, thankfully the heat doesnt last long in this country and by wednesday it will be much cooler.
 
Even with the heat today, and boy has it been hot, especially with a comp folding away and LCD tv and monitor adding to the bedroom ambient too.

But still my cores have not once gone over 45c, and my overall cpu temp stayed at 50c, this was with my 2 rad fans at 50 to 60% or around 1000rpm, normally i run the at 30% 500rpm.

This is on my E8400 @ 3.6ghz, with 1.15v so not the fastest or highest volts but was set up like that knowing summer was around the corner.

Only thing that is bothering me these hot days is my mobo temp, normally it sits 25-30c on coolish days, 30-40 on warmish, but past few days is 40-45c, its a p35 so not the hotest running mobo's but hey ho, added ambient is ofcourse gonna increase comp temps, but so far all mine are way way under max temps so lots more head room to go.
 
q9550 @ 60'c whilst doing some encoding, 3.8Ghz. I like to set a speed that I know will be stable during summer, not interested in a clock just for winter.
 
my i7 @ 4.2 has been running two VMs for the last two weeks not really been off other than a few hours while 4 of us work on a java project. Its been running at high 40's just under 50deg most of the time the room is pretty warm though....
 
Even with window's open + door's yesterday room temp was 24'C, won't alter a thing See Sig.

Over the winter the Boss had the centrel heating on temp's varied 21'c > 23 'c, no problems at all with PC.

Well pleased with my H50, PC.:cool:
 
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