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    Posted: 06 Aug 2012 at 8:23pm
I have the Cryo-Tec Corsair 800D with liquid cooling on cards and chipset.The heat that this computer generates is unreal.It gives off enough heat to heat the whole house up.The computer temps are fine its just the heat that this thing creates. I have a ceiling fan going with a desk fan blowing on it with air conditioner vent fan on high to keep the room bearable to stay in. Any body else experiencing the same thing. Two power supplies,a dozen fans running with 3 separate cooling loops and 4 hard drives, my electric bill will be going up.If Iam in that room more than an hour it gets real hot in there.Talking 90 degrees plus. Had to put a 30amp breaker in that room to handle the load.It burnt my 20 amp out.I guess I need a window air conditioner for that room with a 50 amp breaker.
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How large is the room, out of curiosity? 
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Average size bedroom. 11x11
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My last desktop threw off a lot of heat. That's a good thing :)
What I did was have one of those double fans that fit in a sliding window and set the direction to exhaust the air outside.
 
I actually had my machine on a shelf near the window because I spilled liquid on it once so I took it off the floor.
 
Anyway, the exhaust fans in the window worked.
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The Cryo-TEC system requires a room with air conditioning or some sort of way to bring fresh cool air in and remove the hot air out. The reason for this is the actual thermo electric technology. The system is taking the air in your room and chilling it down, as that happens, it also creates heat on one side of the cooling system.
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Hi surf71zx,

You are facing the same problem than most gamers have to deal with. You probably only have one thermostat in the house and it is not in your computer room. The air conditioning unit never knows that you need cooling in your room until the whole house is hot.

If you have the money you can make the computer room a second zone. But that is really expensive. Your best bet is a window AC that sits low in the window. Then it also helps to place a power fan vent as close to the ceiling as you can get it. This vent should be blowing outside. So you have cool air coming in low from the AC and the fan vent blowing the hot air from the ceiling out side. Once you get this balanced you can keep the room temp really cool. The outside fan vent should have a variable fan adjustment.

Of course that means even higher electric bills unless you are now cooling the whole house to keep your computer room cool.

Frank

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I'm going to have to look for it but I think Panasonic makes a wall unit that is very small compared to the tradidtional window units.
 
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Hi shot,

That is a neat setup. Big bucks though compared to a window unit.

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Originally posted by FrankW

Hi shot,

That is a neat setup. Big bucks though compared to a window unit.

Frank
 
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The Window AC unit will likely be your best bet in the long run as far as cost goes. It will also allow you to raise the temperature on the central AC (if you had it lowered to attempt to compensate for the bedroom). Installation is simple and it can easily be removed in the winter, if you live someplace where it gets cold enough to warrant that. The only downside is that you'll need to upgrade the breaker yet again. Frank's suggestion of a vent is also a good one, but obviously that requires a bit more modification than you might want to embark on, but if not, its definitely a solid idea for creating air rotation. 
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Posts: 485 		  Quote surf71zx Quote  Post ReplyReply bullet Posted: 08 Aug 2012 at 6:39am
Thanks to all for everybodys comments. I have good suggestions to attack this problem. Anybody else out there with a Cryo-Tec system have this same issue.Correction I have 17 fans running. 
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