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April 18, 2011 8:02:19 PM

THis is my first time posting here and I am hopeful for assistance.

I have a somewhat small room setup as my office. The room however gets very warm while working in the office. Even with the door open at times it still accumulates a lot of heat.

I am looking for tips on how to keep the room cool. I have 3 computers in the room. One I use as a server with WHS running on it. It has 6 HDDs in it but when it runs by itself the room does not get warm.

I have a PC from my employer as well but it is a small Dell Optiplex 755 and as well it doesn't warm the room too much.

However my main PC seems to be the culprit for heat accumulation.

I am not sure what info to share about the PC so I used AIDA64 to generate the following info and hopefully someonea bit more astute than I about cooling can look at the info and see if anything points to an issue or offer ANY tips to help me.

AIDA64 Report


Thanks in advance,
Alfred

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April 18, 2011 9:06:44 PM

I'm sorry... I don't entirely understand what you are asking...
I mean, you've got three machines exhausting heat in a limited space. Only way to solve the problem is to cool the room. Even if you improve the cooling system on your main machine, that will only mean it will be more efficient at transferring the heat from inside the case to the outside. Make sure the case and heatsinks/fans are clean if you want to limit the amount of heat generated by the components.
If you are asking if the main machine's temperatures are abnormal, then no, they are not. Your northbridge is a little hot, but the temperature is still well within spec for the X58 chipset, which is known to generate substantial amounts of heat. I'm assuming from the temperatures that the system is running on stock cooling. If this is true, then again- the temps are normal, especially in a hot room.
Best way to lower the room temp is to improve air circulation in it. That's that, the way I see it.
Sory if this isn't what you wanted to hear, but maybe someone will have some better ideas.
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April 19, 2011 2:52:07 AM

Try placing a large fan on the floor at the door and blow room air out. It will be replaced by other air coming in the door higher up. A large fan at low speed may not be very noisy. If that works, consider mounting a sort of exhaust fan permanently in the room wall or ceiling. If adding heat to the rest of your house is OK, just let it blow out of the room into the next room. But if you need to get rid of it outside, a standard exhaust fan system (like for a bathroom or over a stove) might do the job. It's cheaper than an air conditioner, but less cooling, of course, and costs less to operate. However, note that, if you already are running an air conditioning system for the whole house, sending warm air out through an exhaust fan will cause more outside air to be pulled in around the house, increasing the load on the air conditioning system slightly.
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April 26, 2011 12:20:07 AM

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