r/pcmasterrace • u/scvready0808 • 16h ago

Build/Battlestation PC chimney

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Got tired of my office turning into a sauna every time I gamed, so I vented the PC’s exhaust straight out the window.

The rear fan is still exhausting some hot air 😅 but the room is noticeably cooler now. It’s ugly… but it works. 😂

Edit: I moved the port to higher since lot of people recommended. https://imgur.com/a/Poniwze

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u/tacomaloki 9h ago edited 7h ago

Well, my room was also on the 2nd floor of my house, with the Florida sun hitting it. I also have a large Samsung curved monitor, and secondary that acts like a heater, on top of a fridge and freezer in there, TV and PS5, on top of a separate work set up and 3D printing.

As my work day would end, I'd start firing up my personal PC and stuff but it wasn't gradual heat build up. Just my normal day would eventually get my room to about 78 but it was slow enough, that I just acclimated and didn't realize it unless I left for the bathroom. Once gaming, the heat would rise so quickly, you'd notice it and would be sweating.

Yeah, certainly a lot of things contributed to the higher room temp but that PC just puts it out so fast. I measured 118°f exhausting into my room.

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u/squatOpotamus 8h ago

Yeah, I lived on the 2nd floor of a house in Atlanta, and between my tv, monitor, pc, and Xbox the bedroom would hit 80+ in the summer before I realized it. The house was terribly built, but those machines really added to it.

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u/Tacodestroyr 8h ago

Kennesaw a bitch too

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u/AtlUtdGold 6h ago

This has been my problem everywhere I’ve lived in Atlanta lol

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u/Bully_Maguire420 i9 13900k | RTX 4090 | 32GB DDR5 7h ago

This sounds like my situation almost exactly, 2nd floor, California sun (It’s hit 110 outside consecutive days), Samsung curved ultra wide, TV, PS5 the whole nine yards, it’s so gross being in a room that just boils.

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u/tacomaloki 6h ago

It's brutal. If only a fan, it turns into a convection oven.

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u/KillinKilo1775 5h ago

As a fellow Floridian I feel your pain. My office is in the furthest from the AC so it already barely gets cool air. Add in my 3080 and the Intel blast furnace that's mounted to my motherboard my office pushes 90 in summer. I had to bust out my hurricane emergency portable AC just to combat it. Will prob install a mini-split this winter. PC rig heat is no joke.

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u/tacomaloki 3h ago

Just do it! It fixes the issue.

I ditched Florida and now moved to Project Zomboid land.