Where to keep a Gaming PC?

Liam123

Liam123

Liam123

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This is a bit of a stupid question but im not too sure

My current system is:
AMD Phenom ll X6 1090t + stock cooler
Gigabyte GTX560ti OC
500w OCZ PSU
ASUS M4A78LT-M
8GB DDR3 1333MHZ RAM
500GB Hard Drive
Xigmatek Asgard with 1x front fan 2x side 1xback

The thing is my computer is getting quite hot, around 70degrees playing games like FEAR 3. It is also quite noisy while gaming. I have changed the gpu fan speeds to 70% but it hasnt really improved. When i feel the top of my case it is quite hot. I think the problem may be my PC Desk, it has a square slot for a Tower but it doesnt have any holes for good air and since my study is quite small so i have the push the desk very close to the wall, so i think the air may not be blowing away well by the rear fan. Sometimes when i put my hand on the desk where the slot is its also quite hot and the air around the computer also seems quite hot. I do not think my computer is overheating as on a cold day my CPU can idle at 20 and GPU at 25, i also never blue screen and my performance is very good

So would it be better to put my PC on the top of the desk for example?
Another thing is does sound proofing actually work well? because they make it for my case and im considering whether or not to get.
 
Id leave it where it is, moving it is likely to have little to no effect, sound proofing helps a little but its not gonna make it silent, also by insulating sound youre insulating heat so this issue would be exacerbated
 
I would reccomend putting the PC on top of the desk, this will provide better airflow... and if it's not so mutch bother care to open the windows once in a while.. whiles maintaning a dust free PC case.
 
computer "slots" in desks are never very good for cooling, some of them are littler a box, which means it cant vent out any hot air properly and it all just comes back round the front to be sucked in again. So it really depends on how hot the air going into the pc is, but if its making the desk hot, id say it isnt managing to dump the heat well enough.

If it has an open back, then you could put a fan there so that it removed the hot air that the PC vents?

Sound insulation does work, it helps stop vibrations and fan noise etc, but it wont make it silent unless it is already pretty quiet.
 
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