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Originally Posted by Hans5849
im about to go water cooling for my rig and im woundering if any of you guys felt a rise in ambient temps when you went water cooling.
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Pretty much beeen covered. The pump is the only maim thing to add significant heat. I have one pump that runs about 200watts and it adds heat to the room most noticably. But if you use a "normal" pump then it is usually less than 40watts and not to noticable.
The computer itself will indeed warm a room up. Most computers run around 200ish watts. All that is converted to heat eventually and gets dumped into the room. So basically it is a 200ish watt heater. I had 5PC's in my bedroom/computer room back in my Distributed computing days and there was no need to turn the heat on in the winter.
In fact if I left the bedroom door open I usually didn't need to turn the heat on untill it got below zero outside. Thats around 1000watts + the water cooling pumps as a big heater. My main wall heater is only rated at 1200watts.
My power bill sure showed it though. One reason I only have a laptop and one desktop now.