Wasn't sure to put this here or in the other cooling board but I suppose the mods can move it if need be. Anyway, last September I finally put together my first gaming rig.
My build is as follows, Intel i5 2500k @ 3.30 Ghz, Radeon HD 6850, 8Gb 1333 RAM (4x2), 3 hard drives, no disk drive, etc. My case is the Cooler Master HAF 932, and this thing has turbines and it pushes some serious air.
Now my problem isn't that my system isn't stable or anything like that, and I don't plan to overclock the i5 till I need to. It's that my room is a good 10 degrees hotter than the rest of the house. I notice it most when I forget to shut my PC down or put it to sleep before I leave and when I come back in the afternoon the room is much warmer. Now I live in Kansas where the winters are cold and the summers get hot, and I don't want to imagine how bad this will be in the summer time. My older brother has been pushing for water cooling with his argument being it'll cool everything down in the room and just be more effective cooling all together. He says it won't be as expensive as I think because you can use aquarium pumps and things like that. He did it before in a much more DIY sense, (sautering together metal and things like that, cutting all the tubing) with a Core 2 Duo I believe and he said he got a lot more power out of his system. While I don't plan to overclock anytime soon at all it does seem to be an effective method of cooling.
While water cooling does sound like a fun project, it would be somewhat expensive and I don't want to do it, yet at least, if it won't fix the problem at hand. I think the reason my room is hot is because the cooling provided by my case is too effective. The components I have are on performance level and they will generate some serious heat when used which is why cooling is so important, but the HAF 932 has all those huge fans maybe it's just moving all that hot air out into the room and that's the real problem.
I know it seems like I answered my own question, but that doesn't help me. What do you guys think would be the best solution so I don't just bake in here during summer gaming sessions?
And thanks in advance for any help.
My build is as follows, Intel i5 2500k @ 3.30 Ghz, Radeon HD 6850, 8Gb 1333 RAM (4x2), 3 hard drives, no disk drive, etc. My case is the Cooler Master HAF 932, and this thing has turbines and it pushes some serious air.
Now my problem isn't that my system isn't stable or anything like that, and I don't plan to overclock the i5 till I need to. It's that my room is a good 10 degrees hotter than the rest of the house. I notice it most when I forget to shut my PC down or put it to sleep before I leave and when I come back in the afternoon the room is much warmer. Now I live in Kansas where the winters are cold and the summers get hot, and I don't want to imagine how bad this will be in the summer time. My older brother has been pushing for water cooling with his argument being it'll cool everything down in the room and just be more effective cooling all together. He says it won't be as expensive as I think because you can use aquarium pumps and things like that. He did it before in a much more DIY sense, (sautering together metal and things like that, cutting all the tubing) with a Core 2 Duo I believe and he said he got a lot more power out of his system. While I don't plan to overclock anytime soon at all it does seem to be an effective method of cooling.
While water cooling does sound like a fun project, it would be somewhat expensive and I don't want to do it, yet at least, if it won't fix the problem at hand. I think the reason my room is hot is because the cooling provided by my case is too effective. The components I have are on performance level and they will generate some serious heat when used which is why cooling is so important, but the HAF 932 has all those huge fans maybe it's just moving all that hot air out into the room and that's the real problem.
I know it seems like I answered my own question, but that doesn't help me. What do you guys think would be the best solution so I don't just bake in here during summer gaming sessions?
And thanks in advance for any help.