Summer PC cooling guide

Something simple I just thought off as well. If you are playing a graphics intensive game, turn the eye candy down a notch.

Less Work = Less Energy = Less Heat.

Especially true for me that play Crysis online multiplayer most nights. :)
 
What's the point? If i'm going to splash loads of money on my rig i'd want to play all games at the highest settings...at least :p
 
thought you want to run the highest settings? :)

Most modern ones should have power saving though.
 
I meant underclocking when working in a non-gpu intensive 2D environment, i think nVidias latest drivers automatically underclock the gpu in a 2D environment

ATi has that powerplay thing.

The power savings/heat emitted is still negligeable though
 
also, my case is full of holes, I mean, the top and side have hundreds of holes. I wounder if it makes it hotter or cooler?
 
I'm busy trying to seal my case sides so form a chamber. Heck knows if it'll make a difference, but would be interesting to find out.

Merry Christmas, by the way! :D
 
Conradl said:
To understand how to cool your PC, you need to understand how it heats up. Some things you need to know:

1. It is safe to say that every watt of power consumed by your PC is turned into heat. A PC drawing 500 watts is thus equivalent to a 500 watt heater, or 5 100 watt bulbs.
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fundamental flaw. no way every watt consumed is turned into heat. most of it will remain as electrical energy (my guess is 60%+) and then the rest will be turned into other forms of energy like heat etc.
 
Indeed. It's called efficiency. However, point #1 said "safe to assume" so it is an assumption used to gauge what sort of cooling to aim for. Meet that and you can turn things down for even safer more efficient cooling. Well, I reckon anyway, but I'm lacking sleep right now.
 
UnUnOctium said:
fundamental flaw. no way every watt consumed is turned into heat. most of it will remain as electrical energy (my guess is 60%+) and then the rest will be turned into other forms of energy like heat etc.
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Not a flaw, its a fact. Every watt used by a PC is ultimately converted into heat, with a very small percentage (<1%) converted other energy. So if a computer was drawing 500 watts, (i.e. a 500 watt PSU running at 100%), then very close to 500 watts of heat will be generated in total by all the components using that energy.


TheRift said:
Indeed. It's called efficiency. However, point #1 said "safe to assume" so it is an assumption used to gauge what sort of cooling to aim for. Meet that and you can turn things down for even safer more efficient cooling. Well, I reckon anyway, but I'm lacking sleep right now.
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By "safe to assume", I meant <1%, as mentioned above. Efficiency, in the PSU context, refers specifically to the loss incurred within a power supply in producing the required power, e.g. if a 500 watt PSU running at 100% loses 100 watts internally due to heat.

This is different to the heat generated by the combined consumption of all the components. The fact remains that the energy consumed by a 500 watt PSU, drawing 500 watts, will ultimately be converted into heat. (- <1% lost to other energy).
 
For some odd reason. If I play COD 4 my Card gets to around 105 Degrees :O
COD 6 runs at approx 78 degrees.
CPU 48.
 
Never was a problem though. Been playing COD 4 since it came out?

It be Crazeee man
 
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