Turn pc into a heater

[ifihaditall]

Hello, I have an 6 month old i7 920 in a HAF 932 Coolermaster case, how can I make it hotter so it gives out more heat? I ask because I want to heat my room up over the winter. There's 3 auxilliary fans, a cpu fan and a sys fan but I would have to manually unplug them to turn them off; I don't know if it's safe for my computer if there are no fans running.

Currently, as I work on it during the day the average system temp is 38C.

Thanks.

 

[ifihaditall]

Thanks for all the replies.

If it's anything like my PC, the room heats up as I get later into the evening. With no heating on, I can reach around 25C in my room. It's not that my PC is overheating. System temps are fine. It just outputs a lot of that heat into my room. I don't think you will really need to make it hotter. Taking fans off the components will only damage them. Just let the warm air come out the case, and it should, in theory heat your room.

The HAF 932 case is renowned for keeping components icy damn cool. If I touch the case after it's been on all day it's cold to touch.

The computer definitely heats the room up currently a little bit but when I hear comments like yours it makes me wish mine was like that!

However, you could overclock your PC and improve the cooling (better PC cooling means better convection heating in your room). If you haven't tried already, most i7 920s can hit 3.8-4GHz with a good cooler such as this. It will give you a nice performance boost and provide the extra heat you are looking for (just ensure it is your room and not the components that see this extra heat). Ideally, you want that CPU to be running at less than 75 degrees @ 100% load.

That's a good idea. There's a special cpu cooler in the system if I ever want to overclock it. Currently my cpu is 30C and it's been on since this morning.

Run a folding at home CPU and GPU client in the background, leave the fans on as they'll get the heat out of the case and into the room.

It's an inefficient way of heating a room though, just get an electric heater from wilkos for about £15.

This is the kinda thing I was looking for, I have googled folding at home now. Hopefully there is a way to set it to use like 50% of the computers resources whilst I use the other 50% for my work.