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My Computer has been making my Room Really Hot, It's Fine when Idle But When I game Oh boy Does it get hot in my Room.
specs:
Nvidia 980 Stock Card
AMD 8350 4.0 GHz Stock cooler (Planning on getting a better Cooler)
GIGABYTE GA-990FXA-UD3
2tb hard Drive
16gb ram
the case is a Rosewill Thor v2 The fans are what came with the case I didn't change anything in that regard.
it Gets Extremely Loud as well When I game for long periods of time you can hear the fans from the other room. Any help Would be appreciated Thanks.
 
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the problem is ventilation in your room. see no matter what we suggest for a new cpu cooler or gpu cooler, you'll be dispersing the SAME amount of heat energy as you were before. If anything, if you improve the cooling solutions for your system, you will heat up your room faster as your system will disperse the heat energy more efficiently.

there really are very limited solutions to this problem and none of them particularly practical.

1) increase the AC in your room
2) increase ventilation in your room (more windows open, fans)
3) using a robust custom water cooling solution, move the radiators for the water loop outside your room, perhaps outside the house, or into a better ventilated room. This solution would require some...
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the problem is ventilation in your room. see no matter what we suggest for a new cpu cooler or gpu cooler, you'll be dispersing the SAME amount of heat energy as you were before. If anything, if you improve the cooling solutions for your system, you will heat up your room faster as your system will disperse the heat energy more efficiently.

there really are very limited solutions to this problem and none of them particularly practical.

1) increase the AC in your room
2) increase ventilation in your room (more windows open, fans)
3) using a robust custom water cooling solution, move the radiators for the water loop outside your room, perhaps outside the house, or into a better ventilated room. This solution would require some construction work and serious thought but people have done it successfully.

my own computer room is small with just one ac vent in it, I've found my room will get quite hot if i close the door to the rest of the house and close the window. no amounts of fans in the room really help me much, though they do help a little bit. so i do feel some of your pain.
 
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Cooling for your computer wouldn't help, as the law of conservation of energy takes place here. If your cpu is ice cold, your cooler heatsink is going to be hot, and that heat will be released into the air around you. The best thing to do is to get a fan or a portable AC, so your AC bills don't go high. Or you could just open your windows at night. A portable AC is expensive, so If you can't afford that then get a fan and blast it in your face. You can get a mini usb one or just a normal fan.
 
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You bought one of the most powerful graphic cards on the planet, and are surprised it puts out heat? Same for the noise. Something has to keep that monster card from melting, and that is what your fans are attempting to do.

If it is cooler outside than it is inside, open some windows. But after living in Las Vegas for nearly 3 decades, I fully understand that some parts of this planet are hot. Very hot. I spent hundreds and hundreds of dollars a month to stay cool in my home. Now, I live in much cooler area, and we sometimes can get through the summer with only a couple of days over 85f. But other years, we get above 95 for a couple weeks in a row too.

A computer with the power you have there is going to be hot. Maybe after next year, they will be cooler due to the new HBM memory, but they will still produce some heat.
 
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A friend was in a similar situation (no AC, no ventilation, had to run a computer) and we got to talking about possible solutions. One idea we came up with was to get a water cooler and just stick the radiator into a 5 gallon bucket of water.

Air at 20 C (68 F) has a density of 1.2 kg/m^3. If your room is 20x20x8 ft (90.6 m^3), it has 108.7 kg of air. Air has a specific heat of 1.005 kJ/kg*K. For 108.7 kg of air, that's 109.3 kJ/K.

If the room is unventilated and your computer is burning 500 Watts, in 1 hour the air temperature will rise (0.5 kJ/s)*(3600 s) / (109.3 kJ/K) = 16.47 K or almost 30 degrees F. So if the room air starts at 68 F, after an hour it'll be 98 F. (Water vapor in the air also absorbs some heat energy and decreases this temperature change, but your body gives off about 100 Watts and increases this temperature change.)

Liquid water has a specific heat of 4.186 kJ/kg*K. A 5 gallon bucket holds just under 40 lbs of water (18 kg). So it can absorb (4.186 kJ/kg*K)*(18 kg) = 75.348 kJ/K.

So if the computer is consuming 500 Watts, in 1 hour the water temperature will rise (0.5 kJ/s)*(3600 s) / (75.348 kJ/K) = 23.9 K = 43 degrees F. So if the water comes out of the tap at 20 C (68 F), after an hour the water in the bucket will be 44 C (111 F), and the air remains its original temp. After an hour, just empty the bucket into the toilet or bathtub and fill it with a new batch of cold water. Or if you want to game for multiple hours, just get multiple buckets of water and either move the radiator from one bucket to the next, or get a fishtank pump and circulate the water between buckets.
 
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