EFFECT OF INCREASED NUMBERS OF PC'S ON OFFICE TEMPERATURES

[nicolecrown24]

Hello,

Can anyone confirm by how many degrees the room temperature would increase in an office if there were to be an increased number of PC's and Monitors?

I am assuming that this will be dependant on the size of the office, the temperature of the computers and the number of staff in the office.

Does an equation exist to work out the increase in temperature?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

 

[spawnkiller]

it would depend on the office size, the number of PCs and what components are used in these PC and monitors model too as not every monitor output the same amount of heat, room ventilation, number of persons in the room, isolation, etc...

It'll surely calculable but you'll need to measure each PC and each monitors to see how much each of them output in temperature (joules) and with all these, the ventilation of the room and how much person degage heat in the same room, etc...

A Scientist will be capable to measure that aprox. but i personnally can't...

 

[Solandri]

It's impossible to tell you the temperature increase in general because it will different with each room (it's not just a matter of size, but also insulation and air circulation).

What you can do is look at the wattage. The Watts will tell you how much thermal energy is being added to the room every second. For an exact answer you can buy something like a kill-a-watt. In general, a modern PC with integrated graphics will burn about 35-50 Watts while idle. 100-150 Watts at load. Adding a discrete video card will roughly double this, or even push it higher for a high-end video card. nVidia cards tend to burn more Watts than AMD cards.

For comparison, a typical electric space heater gives off 1500 Watts of heat. And an average-sized person sitting and doing office work will put out about 100 Watts of heat.