Is My Room Too Cold?

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So as you may know, fall is here. That means the air starts to get cooler... Anyway, I'm in a small room which is in a kitchen, there is no installation so it can be cold at times, I keep on having the fear of my computer freezing but when i shut the door its usually just below room tempature. Another thing is that that the room can get quite hot. I don't know what to do, at my dad's its a we have a the air conditioning so it stays room tempature year around. Do you guys think I should probably take the computer from my moms (which is what I was just talking about) or leave it how it is. I just want my PC to stay cool but not too cool... Also my mother doesn't really want me taking the computer to my dad's but I think I would rather have a healthy PC then a frozen one lol.

Another thing is that I would have to move my computer around. I would have to un-plug everything and put it in car until january when my mom's house is built. You think the PC would be okay it just lied on it's side still or should put like foam around it?

Sorry its a lot of questions, but I need someone who knows what they're doing..
 
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I, uhm...

Computers aren't going to freeze. People who overclock computers do so by cooling them with liquid nitrogen; a chilly room is going to do absolutely nothing but make it even easier to keep it cool.

I've moved computers before, and it's a pain, especially if it has watercooling. Your best bet is to wrap it in a blanket and put it behind the passenger's chair, then back the chair up far enough that it has as little room to move as possible. The other option, if it's small enough, is to put it between your passenger's knees.

So yeah, there's absolutely no reason to be worried about the cold, as the computer will love it. As for the heat, unless we're talking the middle of the desert like I'm in, or deep down south with open...
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I, uhm...

Computers aren't going to freeze. People who overclock computers do so by cooling them with liquid nitrogen; a chilly room is going to do absolutely nothing but make it even easier to keep it cool.

I've moved computers before, and it's a pain, especially if it has watercooling. Your best bet is to wrap it in a blanket and put it behind the passenger's chair, then back the chair up far enough that it has as little room to move as possible. The other option, if it's small enough, is to put it between your passenger's knees.

So yeah, there's absolutely no reason to be worried about the cold, as the computer will love it. As for the heat, unless we're talking the middle of the desert like I'm in, or deep down south with open windows, you're going to be fine.
 
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Another thing is that I would have to move my computer around. I would have to un-plug everything and put it in car until january when my mom's house is built. You think the PC would be okay it just lied on it's side still or should put like foam around it?
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I've posted this in here before:
The life of a PC, from construction to your living room:
Factory -> conveyor belt -> forklift -> warehouse -> forklift -> truck -> forklift -> shipping container -> ship -> ocean -> big giant forklift thing to grab the shipping container -> ground -> forklift -> truck - warehouse -> forklift -> truck -> Newegg warehouse -> forklift -> truck -> distro warehouse -> forklift -> truck -> local UPS center -> forklift -> truck all day in the summer heat (or winter cold) -> USP guy drops it (literally) on your porch.

And you're worried about a couple of miles in the back of the car?
 
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You MAY want to take into consideration the humidity of the room. It CAN be too dry if the risk of static electricity puts your computer in danger if you mess with the inards at all. If it is really dry in the room, I would consider running a humidifier maybe an hour or two every day. This isn't totally necessary, but it would lower the risk of damage to your system through static shock. I know in supercomputer rooms they keep it around 40-50 degrees and run humidifiers (I've been in a huge supercomputer room on a military base in Mississippi and even as humid as it is there, they still kept it the humidity from dropping too low in the computer room).

Like I said, probably not necessary, but not a bad idea either unless you have humidity sensitive items in your room like firearms and other things of the sort
 
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