How much of a difference does this heat wave make?

Oh how I would kill for some air conditioning right now. Im trying my hardest to get a breeze blowing through the house but its not happening =[
 
Big.Wayne said:
I'm actually considering some simple water cooling for the Northbridge and Ram now as this heatwave isn't doing my overclocked systems any good! :(
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Bung one of those thermalright coolers on the NB with a slow spinning 60mm fan.

Made my NB heatsink go from finger burningly hot to barely warm. :)
 
currently running my 920 at 4Ghz 1.2v and the idle temps are 48-50c and load while gaming 65-73c

prime in this heat is 79c and linpack 81c

when it cools down a little going back to my preferred setup of 4.2Ghz 1.23v
at 4.2 in this heat temps are 83-85 during linpack
 
It hasn't made much difference for me. My flat stays cool in the summer, although the lounge which points South gets much warmer than the other rooms.
 
GFX card is up about 5-10c, NB and CPU are up about 5c though i'm currently running without a case. It was better yesterday where my CPU was somehow able to stay 6c below what google said the temp was round here.

What's more noticeable is the change in room temperature, not only is it hotter cause of the heatwave but my computer is heating the room up even high much quicker than normal.
 
mine is hovering around 40-45 idle even before the heatwave wont use linux or prime coz mine goes over 90c and cant work out why this is even before the heatwave,is there a better cpu fan i could use that would make my temps more comfortable would like it in the 30c mark for idle and depending how long this heat is gonna stay for if theres a better one which doubt there is one,my gfx card is 52c idle normally 50c
 
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I've just ran my q9550 back at 2.8ghz (from 3.8ghz), and undervolted it as low as it'll go, as well as enabling speedstep.

Dropped my idle temps from 40deg or so, to low 30's. Prime now hits 50-55deg, IBT hits 60-65, which is a good 10 degrees drop from what it what before.

It's also allowed me to drop all my fan speeds as low as they'll go and still have this drop in temps. :)
 
Mal X said:
quit gaming in the hot weather, it wont last long.....that's what i did last year.
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That's pretty much what I've had to do. I feel more overheated from 30 minutes of gaming than I do 30 minutes of cycling. I don't even use my desktop during the day now, it just adds too much heat to the room. The only good thing is that it won't last much longer, being England the cold and the rain is never more than a week away :)
 
i live near Southampton and today it's cool and raining, but i cant game... no replacement PSU yet :cool:

my house is cold downstairs in the winter.... so gaming is fine, but over 26 degrees and it's a bit risky...even with the windows open.
 
Probably up about 10 degrees. All working fine though... IMO if a hot day is enough to make your system unstable, then your OC is far too close to the edge of stability anyways.
 
Got a bit of a shock just now, after a year of running my pc is an antec 1200 I got the Motherboard temp warning at 45degrees on idle. Asus P5e and q6600. CPU was about the same. Normally I sit at about 29 on both. Keyboard stat says its 32 inside my room :eek:

Had to whack the fans up to full for the first time ever which so far has bought the temp back down to 39 and falling. Noisy beggar on full though.
 
I think a lot of people are dissalusioned by air conditioning, let me just make a few comments. It runs on heat aswell as cool so you can use it all year round, set it to an automatic temp of say 20-22 and just leave it and it will maintain that room temp. Also it is energy rated for efficiency as A rated and is far cheaper to run than gas central heating and as i say with gas if you heat a room it may get to hot so the heat is wasted, with air con it stops heating when temp is reached. Air con will reach the required setting within 5 mins and not 30-40 mins on heat if it was winter and really cold therefore big savings all round. I have 3 fitted in my house and have shut all the rads off in the rooms they are in, and what a difference it makes. The rooms are all set at required temps.
 
geordie56 said:
Hey what you guys need is air con!! I have it and my temps are 22-26 with no load on cpu and 34-40 under full load with prime at an overclock of 4ghz on my EVGA 790i motherboard and QX 6850 Extreme. My 3 BFG 260s run at 30-32 no load and 40-42 under full load all clocked to 730 core clock, 1500 shader and 2500 on the memory. Its great!!
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jammy sob!

I looked at air conditioning units, 300 quid minimum, and you need a vent!

I only need to oc to play gta4 smoothly, so im not playing it til autumn, save myself some money.
 
Mattus said:
IMO if a hot day is enough to make your system unstable, then your OC is far too close to the edge of stability anyways.
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I don't see how your meant to know this unless during your clocking tests you enclose your computer in a heat chamber to artificially simulate a Summer Heatwave! :D

How many people test their PC with increased ambients during the colder months, the answer is probably one and his name is fornowagain heh! :p
 
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