Well I feel like a *****
Recently went to a LAN party, and arrived to discover why host said bring a coat. Turns out we were gaming in his non-heated cement basement...in January. Where I live we don't get snow often but we hit a hearty 30 degrees f.
Getting to my point, I've always been so busy moving cables, getting new fans, applying proper thermal paste, that I never even considered the ambient temperature in the room. Well my core temps got cut in half and my friend running an Opteron 165 got down to a core temp of 14c while my x2 3800+ was at a healthy 20
so if anyone wants to overclock their computers, take your machine outside, in a basement, or a garage, and overclock that sucker till it bleeds!
PS-I always have my window open now to run my PC cooler
Recently went to a LAN party, and arrived to discover why host said bring a coat. Turns out we were gaming in his non-heated cement basement...in January. Where I live we don't get snow often but we hit a hearty 30 degrees f.
Getting to my point, I've always been so busy moving cables, getting new fans, applying proper thermal paste, that I never even considered the ambient temperature in the room. Well my core temps got cut in half and my friend running an Opteron 165 got down to a core temp of 14c while my x2 3800+ was at a healthy 20
so if anyone wants to overclock their computers, take your machine outside, in a basement, or a garage, and overclock that sucker till it bleeds!
PS-I always have my window open now to run my PC cooler