Does summer weather increase heat in a computer?

[Seaboss]

I have not put my AC up yet but I am floating around 90F outside with windows open. I have noticed my idle temps have increased to 6-10C on both my gpu and cpu. Not sure if this is the weather outside or something else. Nothing has changed in my system, Games also due tend to run hotter then usual.

 

[USAFRet]

Yes.
Whatever cooling system you have generally only 'cools' in relation to the ambient temp.

A room temp of 85 would result in a much higher CPU/GPU/system temp than a room temp of 45.

 

[Jason H.]

Well the short answer is, yes. The temperature in your room, if using a air cooler, is the air your PC uses to cool the system. Cooler room, cooler system, hotter room... etc.

I would suggest at least popping the side off and taking a look that all the fans are working properly and clean out any dust within the sytem to give it optimal air flow with this increasing heat.

If your system is pretty clean then I would suggest getting a after market cooler. I just picked on up for 16.99 called the Cooler Master Hyper T2. This is better than stock cooler and fits most smaller cases.

It depends on what you do on the PC if this would be a worthwhile upgrade. If your just doing some light/medium gaming or some light overclocking this cooler will work great to help keep temps down. On average about 10 degrees cooler than the stock cooler.

 

[10tacle]

Yep. In warmer months, I dial back the overclock on my air cooled i5 4690K. It loves the winter months though when I keep the heat down low. I often just wrap up and keep the room in the low 60F's in temp vs. mid-70s in summer on A/C to stay cool.

 

[USAFRet]

For instance, drive temps
This is (mostly) the same drives, in the same case, with the same cooling situation, in the same room:

The only difference is the ambient room temp. The 'June' temp was taken just now.

 

[geofelt]

Normal...

90f. is around 32c.
At idle, you should see something like 10-15c. over ambient.
And... it matters little if the cooler is a liquid cooler or an air cooler.
Both depend on exchanging heat to the environment via a radiator.

 

[Wolfshadw]

You'll notice pretty much every late Spring/early Summer a significant influx of, "My Computer is Crashing Suddenly" threads.

-Wolf sends

 

[Jason H.]

You'll notice pretty much every late Spring/early Summer a significant influx of, "My Computer is Crashing Suddenly" threads.

-Wolf sends

Got my AC in the window on full blast Gotta love it lol

 

[Wolfshadw]

You'll notice pretty much every late Spring/early Summer a significant influx of, "My Computer is Crashing Suddenly" threads.

-Wolf sends

Got my AC in the window on full blast Gotta love it lol

Until you see your electric bill.

-Wolf sends

 

[Jason H.]

You'll notice pretty much every late Spring/early Summer a significant influx of, "My Computer is Crashing Suddenly" threads.

-Wolf sends

Got my AC in the window on full blast Gotta love it lol

Until you see your electric bill.

-Wolf sends

haha nahh I got a energy efficient AC, costs about 40$ a month its just a little window AC for a small room.

 

[10tacle]

As an air overclocker and one who lives in the south of the US where we have to run the A/C seven months out of the year, at one time I seriously tossed around the idea of buying a portable floor A/C - and fabricating custom duct work to funnel that directly into my case intake fans. I already have a dehumidifier in the gaming room, so between that and the HVAC, condensation wouldn't be an issue and power draw would only be a few more bucks a month when in use. But then I snapped back into reality knowing that running 1440p or 4K resolution seriously diminishes FPS gains with higher CPU frequencies as the GPU gets pushed more.

 

[tom42]

I have not put my AC up yet but I am floating around 90F outside with windows open. I have noticed my idle temps have increased to 6-10C on both my gpu and cpu. Not sure if this is the weather outside or something else. Nothing has changed in my system, Games also due tend to run hotter then usual.

Of course.The packets being sent over the internet expand from the heat and thus cause more friction against the Æther.

Nothing you can do about it.