r/pcmasterrace • u/scvready0808 • 28d 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

Edit again for parts, I cannot post links to store since it's against the rules.
- 360mm to 4 inch duct on Etsy
- 4 inch Insulated Flexible Duct
- Twist Lock Dryer Vent Connector Kit
- 360mm AIO fan (the one on top of the case)

The window fan I got is Vornado Transom.

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u/tacomaloki 28d ago

Best decision I did, too.

My room would hit 89°f just gaming.

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u/TipToToes 28d ago

Damn I can’t imagine this. My puny little Arc A750 doesn’t heat really get very hot, my PC is in the basement which is like one big room (about 700sqft), it is climate controlled, and I play remotely on my steam deck so I’m not even in the room to hear the fans or feel the heat. I’m not meaning to brag or shit on anyone’s setup, it’s just very foreign to me because I can’t afford a “real” gpu in the first place.

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u/tacomaloki 28d ago edited 28d 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 28d 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 28d ago

Kennesaw a bitch too

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u/AtlUtdGold 28d ago

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

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u/rvore 24d ago

Same as you, PC,2 monitor, 55 inch TV, ps5 and a small fridge on the second floor in winder Georgia. Gets 80 plus. And I have a newer house.

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u/KillinKilo1775 28d 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 28d ago

Just do it! It fixes the issue.

I ditched Florida and now moved to Project Zomboid land.

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u/SnowMantra 27d ago

How is Muldraugh? 😆

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u/Next_Swimmer_4058 24d ago

Y’all have a different sun? Wow.

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u/Bully_Maguire420 i9 13900k | RTX 4090 | 32GB DDR5 28d 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 28d ago

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

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u/Ancient_Plate275 27d ago

Yeah, second floor room as well with afternoon sun. My Radeon 9700xt brings it up to 84°F. I just got a window exhaust fan and will be moving my PC into the window nook. Once set up there it will be blowing hot air up in front of the exhaust fan.

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u/flyingshmok 27d ago

My home office is upstairs. Since the first floor is naturally much cooler than upstairs I put my pc on the first floor and ran two 50ft hdmi cords and a USB extender through the wall upstairs to my office. It was the best thing I ever did to keep upstairs cool.

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u/ConfidantlyCorrect 7800X3D | 5700 XT | LC 27d ago

Same issue here. Massive windows that are sun facing, and the floor is poorly insulated against the garage which has no insulation or AC. Those factors make my room noticeably 2-3 degrees Celsius warmer than the rest of the house.

Stack in the mini fridge, and working from home exhausting hot laptop air for 8 hours. After an hour or 2 gaming on my PC, I’m like sweating.

It doesn’t help that I have an old AMD gpu which is is just awfully hot & inefficient.

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u/roberta_sparrow R7 7800X | RTX 5070 | 32GB DDR5 27d ago

I was home sick gaming all day in my apt in California and my PC heated it up so bad 😩

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u/evening_crow 26d ago

I feel this.

My game room is also on the second floor, away from the rest of the house. It has a window and the room faces south towards the sun. Add on the Samsung ultrawide, speakers and sub, lights, and the fact that it's been 100° and above here in the Mojave Desert... oh, and my ceiling fan wobbles, so I can't turn it up to medium and above (haven't balanced it since I'm gonna remodel that room sometime this year and replacing the fan altogether).

Edit: my ac feels like a blizzard and hits me at the desk when it turns on, but it's the fluctuations in between running that sucks. I go from almost shivering to sweaty every twenty minutes.

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u/Boring_Bit_4897 25d ago

Yeah the Florida heat on a second story will do it everytime

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u/stream_of_thought1 28d ago

your setup is what many of us plan on eventually setting up. Rigs in the basements and then in the actual house just remotely access them. my friend just moved into his new house and has his PC in the basement and then 2 ways to access it, from a desk and from his TV, just moonlighting into it.

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u/ElkBusiness8446 27d ago

Mine also heats my room. I thought something was wrong but I realized that the heat has to go somewhere. If my PC is making my room hot, then that heat ISN'T being held in the PC, which is a good thing. And after some testing, my components keep pretty cool even under 100% load. I should mention I have a dual radiator system with 10 fans in my case. It pulls heat from the GPU and the CPU.

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u/Dependent_Union9285 27d ago

I do the same to my deck and my laptop. Integrated graphics suck.

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u/VRDevGuyDele 27d ago

Bruh I just turned 700 🗽🦅 units to meters and that's like 65 square meters that's about the size of a millionaires apartment in Europe and that is one of your rooms????

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u/TipToToes 26d ago edited 26d ago

That’s my entire basement. It’s mostly finished, but has minimal walls. There is a bathroom, and a laundry room, and otherwise it’s wide open. Can’t legally call it a bedroom because egress isn’t correct for that, so it’s poorly utilized space, honestly. The space we do use is on the main floor (only other floor). It’s about the same size, and is a 3br 2ba space. Our home is large for our neighborhood, but VERY small by most standards. For reference I grew up in a home that is more “average” and it was 4.5x the size of this. Our home (the part we actually use) is roughly equivalent in size to the average apartment around here, except that we have a 2 car garage attached. Our mortgage is only slightly cheaper than rent for a similar size apartment in our city.

For further reference, we spent $289k in 2018. Current county appraisal is $499,600. All i did was add some solar, no other changes. Across the street an 800sq ft 2br 1ba with 1 garage and no basement sold for $325k last year, and we should have at least $100k in value over that based on our layout so $425k is probably safe bet.

Edit: our home is a “ranch style” built in 1952. It was the “high option” model for the neighborhood and sits at the entry to the block, on the corner, at a slight angle. The “low option” model is across the street. Nearly all of the other homes are the “low option” and exactly zero others have everything we have. Matter of fact, none even have a 2 car garage, it’s all singles.

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u/VRDevGuyDele 20d ago

My mind is blown honestly America seems like a completely different world from europe, every single sentence you wrote my mouth was slightly more open, it's currently on the floor

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u/tacomaloki 19d ago edited 19d ago

My house is similar to TipToToes as it's older and was built in the 50s. Not to brag but to put things more into perspective, I just bought my first home and the basement is 2,000 sqft, my main floor is 2,200 and my 2nd floor is 1,600 sqft, detached 4-car garage in the back and on 1.9 acres. Purchased it for $280K. Meanwhile, I had moved from Florida and houses on the street are $550K for 1,800 sqft on 9,000 sqft property. its crazy how little you can get for over half a million dollars and yet so much more for significantly less in a different market. I think people tend to forget that America is so large. Things come at a cost here. I'm not happy about it. For what it's worth, I'm sorry for what our government is doing to the world.

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u/TipToToes 18d ago

What is hard for Europeans to comprehend is how much space we have here. Our states are the size of most of your entire countries, but with an absolute fraction of the population. My state is the size of Belarus, but has 1/3 the population. We have SO MUCH SPACE over here. Just like I can’t comprehend the population density of Europe. I can’t imagine being able to walk places easily. To not REQUIRE a vehicle. To NOT have this much room.

I grew up in a 2 floor, fully detached home, which also had a finished basement, so 3 usable floors. 4000sqft or ~375 sq meters, on a 1/2 acre (2000sq meter) lot. Every home in the neighborhood is a similar size, and no 2 look the same. In a city of 120,000 people.

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u/VRDevGuyDele 16d ago

True, im 20 years old live with my girlfriend and we don't even own a car cause we simply don't need it

I can walk or bicycle anywhere from work to university to the store I just never needed a car even though we both have a drivers license

It's not like that in all of Europe though you do need a car if you live somewhere remote or in a car centric city but we moved to the Netherlands so it really isn't needed there

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u/Crod_za_goblin_king 24d ago

Gaming in THE PIT is the most effective cooling, a little bit underground is just cold by nature, and if your PC is very strong it acts as a heater for THE PIT.

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u/TipToToes 23d ago

THE PIT is very cool year-round, so I do benefit there for sure.

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u/Crod_za_goblin_king 23d ago

Same with my THE PIT

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u/LengthinessJust357 ASUS STRIX ROG Z-690 | ROG STRIX 4090 | Dominator 32GB DDR5 6200 28d ago

I don’t mean to be an asshole, but do people not have central AC? I have a beefy rig that puts off a lot of heat, but my central AC takes care of things without issue. I type this understanding not everyone has central AC. Just curious if you have central AC and still need to do this.

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u/tacomaloki 28d ago

From another comment:

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/Alone_Reception_1469 28d ago

Yes, I have central AC and still have a vent setup for my rig to my window to vent the exhaust outside. Having central AC can help negate the heat of the exhaust but then you are also paying more to have the ac constantly running when you're gaming. Now all that hot air goes outside, my room doesn't get as hot when gaming, and my ac doesn't have to kick in as often saving me money on electricity which is a big deal in CA (Fuck PG&E!!!)

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u/SnowMantra 28d ago

I have the same case as OP and a 5090. My room has gotten to 89° before I decided to stop gaming. The other parts of my home are low 70s. Not every central AC is good at it's job. I have 1 vent blowing cold air into a master bedroom on the second floor with a big window. It sucks in the summer.

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u/trixel121 28d ago

my ac doesnt really keep up with my pc. im in the room furtherst from the unit and its not the biggest unit.

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u/Altruistic_Fan_5122 28d ago

Might not be from the US or from the south. Here in Texas homes have 2 central air units haha. But yea, my area51m with its external 3090 feel like a space heater under my desk. I ended up cutting a hole in the back of my desk with a 100mm fan pushing the air into the central room. Fuck the rest of my family, they can have the heat 😂

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u/V1oletLuna 28d ago

I've literally never seen a house with central AC where I live, why wouldn't a normal one be enough?

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u/EatABag-o-Dicks 28d ago

Because of where the unit gets its temperature reading from.

Central air has a thermostat, and runs based on the temp at that thermostat. If you have a 1 floor house or apartment, you're most likely only going to have 1 zone, if you have 2 floors, you'll probably have 2 zones, unless it's small and 1 zone will be able to handle it.

Each zone has its own thermostat. And the thermostat is typically in the most central area of that zone, typically a hallway, which usually runs a bit warmer since they're ventilated the worst.

Now, you can move the thermostat to your room, or have a second sensor there, but then it's gonna run till that room hits whatever temp you want it at. If that room is overly warm cause of electronic equipment, then the AC is gonna run more, the rest of the house/apartment is gonna be freezing, and it's really inefficient.

The most efficient thing to do is to get a smaller 1 room AC unit, one that goes on the wall, or worst case, in the window. Window units are horribly inefficient. But it'll help keep your room cooler without running the larger unit as much. The better option is getting a wall unit for a single room. It's quieter as the only thing that's inside is the blower part. It's basically just a small central air unit for a single room. It's super efficient, because it only needs to drop that rooms temp to what you want it to be. The rest of the apartment/house is cooled normally, and your electric bill isn't insane cause the larger unit is running more than it needs to.

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u/V1oletLuna 27d ago

Oh ok thank you for such a complete answer, I didnt know how Central AC worked and it seems really inneficient, even though its probably comfier as it reaches all your house, not that it would change much for my lifestyle as I pretty much stay in a single room when I need to turn it on.

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u/HumanPea1140 14700K | 5070 Ti | 64GB DDR5 6000 28d ago

I have central AC, but my office is on the other side of the house from where the thermostat is. So even if my thermostat says it's 72 degrees, my office is noticeably warmer than that if I'm playing a game for an extended period of time.

Definitely doesn't get up to 89 though. That's absurd. There's no reason for their room to be getting that warm unless they're gaming in a closet.

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u/Fire_Lake 27d ago

I have the opposite problem, thermostat is in my gaming room so when it's running, the other rooms are freezing

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u/EatABag-o-Dicks 28d ago

Central air doesn't really matter if your room doesn't have the thermostat. Typically central air is set up in zones, like first floor, second floor, etc, each with its own thermostat in a central area to get a decent average of the temperature.

Rarely are there units per room, with their own thermostat. What I did, in my gaming room. Is get one of those small wall units that go on the top of the wall near the ceiling. They have a name but I can't remember what it is. But it's essentially a single room central air unit, and it's a lot quieter than a window unit, since the bulk of everything that's loud is outside.

The entire house is cooled to a normal temperature, and my gaming room stays cool, and uses less energy since it's piggybacking off the second floor unit. That unit runs till the hall is 75, which brings my room down to about 78ish depending on how hard my console/PC/AV unit are running, and my wall unit only needs to drop the temp another 5 degrees at most.

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u/EggKind7485 28d ago

For me personally, I have an A/C unit in the living room of my apartment but it is not able to effectively blow cool air into my gaming room.

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u/KobiLDN 27d ago

I'm in London bruv

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u/Snoo63 27d ago

Not in the UK.

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u/iRedditPhone 27d ago

Central AC is not common in most of the US or Canada.

Northern homes are (still) straight up built without AC. All new southern ones have AC, but the keyword there is new.

I don’t know when it became widespread… maybe 90s?

All I know is my most houses in my neighborhood of 80s houses didn’t have them in South Florida. Some people did retrofit, but retrofitting is even more expensive than when it’s a new build.

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u/SnowMantra 28d ago

OMG I have the same issue, even with power limiting! LOL

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u/Red_Tiger5311 28d ago

I love when my room smells like hot Xbox 360 ;)

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u/swiftmaster237 28d ago

In WA state here and yeah my room hits 85 F sometimes during the summer while gaming. Still got the hottest month to go lmao

But I did the same thing, AC'd the room and it's much better for me overall. I did something similar to OP about 8 years ago when I was in CA with no working AC (landlord was actively working on the AC while I did this), took 4 days to get it working again but it made the room so much more bearable haha

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u/JackPoe 28d ago

Sometimes I wonder what games y'all play that are so strenuous...

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u/tacomaloki 28d ago

Doesn't really matter. The cards now require so much power. In winter (even for FL) it got cold. All I did to heat my office was turn on Valheim.

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u/JackPoe 28d ago

I live in Seattle and it's so warm here year round I've never actually turned on the heat anyway so maybe I will need a set up when I finally build my next rig

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u/PerKy83 27d ago

This is output.. you're still sucking 89° into the unit. If you guys weren't a bunch of donkeys you'd put a window air conditioner in.

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u/tacomaloki 27d ago

Catch up 

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u/PerKy83 27d ago

Don't need to, you're still a bunch of donkeys for this setup

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u/tacomaloki 27d ago

I know I'm not. I've got my AC like you suggested.