So many things flowing through my head right now, that I cannot escape from. As much as I try to push them away, they keep coming right back.
This is a continuation of the really low thing that happened three or so days ago, of dealing with my parents over my air conditioner. And how I said this isn’t going to end.. I was right. And for the longest time I did my best to defend my computer as not being the reason it gets so hot in my room (and why my AC is having to over-work to cool the room down).
Blamed it on the flap that was letting heat (and mosquitoes) in. That flap has been closed since, but the heat hasn’t dissipated any better than it did. It’s something in my room that I didn’t have last year (and the years before that). Yet it can’t be my computer! It can’t! It has newer hardware now! Surely it cannot be what’s generating it!
Yet now… now I don’t know if I can defend it anymore. I’m looking for answers of the reason, but it appears I might be staring right at it– it, is my computer. Mainly, the graphics card. Apparently, even when its idle, it’s hot enough to generate more heat than my AC can dissipate. Now this wasn’t an issue in the winter months, but now… now when I can’t keep the temp in my room below 85*F (with my AC running at full blast), there’s obviously a problem. And I hope (and pray) that problem is from inadequate cooling in my room.
That’s why tomorrow, I’m going to try to move the AC to the other window, which
should (in theory) provide even room cooling. Hopefully.. that fixes it. Because if it doesn’t, well.. let’s just not think about it. OK?
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This is the only thing that would explain why it’s so hot in my room, even at 11:34pm. And it makes me wish that I never upgraded my hardware (or got into VR). Because I never had this issue happen in the past (as my CPU was always the bottleneck). Now, new
hardware (frees up the CPU which makes the GPU work harder), plus having VR and it’s the middle of summer?… Fuck, man. FUCK!!
Right now I’m leaving the door behind me open, trying to let this trapped heat out. But with my computer on, it’s taking a VERY long time (and may not even drop below 82*F).
..WHY, though?! Why even on idle, it’s generating so much heat?! Right now it’s idling at 55*C, which is about as cool as my 750Ti was. So HOW can it be belching out so much heat?!?!?
Maybe it’s not the GPU at all. Checked the CPU and it’s around 38*C on idle. It’s just, all I know is I was watching the temp fall from 85*F to 82.7*F on my atomic clock. I turn on my computer, and the temp fall nearly completely stops. So there’s something in my computer generating a fuckton of heat. ..Maybe the PSU.
Then again maybe it’s not my computer at all. What if it’s the AC itself, because I didn’t properly clean it out before installation? …I could point fingers at everything until I’m blue in the face, trying to look for something other than my computer causing it. But the proof is right there, when I saw the temp slowly dropping until I turned on my computer, and then immediately the temp drop came to a screeching halt. ..It’s hard not to blame it.
The only other thing that can generate heat (and maybe lots of it), could be the lightbulb I had to buy for my WMR to keep its boundary. Yet it was on when I had my computer
off, and… meh.
Think my computer just isn’t being cooled enough, and hopefully by moving the AC to the other window, will help with that (and lower the room temp to below 80*F). I’ll be doing it by 11am tomorrow. It’ll be a lot of work, but let’s.. just.. pray the effort pays for itself.
Bet as soon as I go into VRChat (in VR), the temp will rise quickly.
EDIT, 7/10/19: Logging for the night, I noticed the temp in the room actually didn’t rise that much (did go to 83*F at one time, but fell to 81.6*F). Moving the AC to the other window was harder than I was hoping it would be, mainly for the fact they wouldn’t allow me to use father’s drill (saying I’ll “strip the wood”).. little did they know I had to use it on my computer. Wish they would trust me with it. Then I had an unfortunate argument with them over not buying my own screwdriver and stuff. Ugh. Why, when we already have them in the house?! Because father is a hoarder of tools and absolutely hates handing them over. *roll eyes*
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Now I got the AC in the central window, so surely my idea in theory should work, right?! ..Wrong. It’s not any better than it was before!! That AC refuses to cool as good as it used to! But the only good thing that came out of it, mother cannot hear it running when she’s outside with the cat (therefore is not freaking out thinking it will ‘blow up’ with how long it runs), therefore is no longer bitching at me. And if you don’t bitch at me, I don’t stress the fuck out.
…Except she found a fucking way to bitch at me later that night, saying the AC is “taking too much power from the house” and telling me to either not have my computer on all day or only turn on my AC when they’re in bed. Her way of accusing is the light above her head is flickering every few minutes.
Turned off my AC as a test, and… well, it wasn’t looking good for my defense as the light wasn’t blinking. I then tried to ask her “how long has it been doing this?” And she said it has happened ever since I moved it over to the same wall my father’s AC is on, claiming it’s using the same circuit and causing an overload.
Told me to turn my AC back on, so I went in my room (yet I didn’t turn it back on as I was actually kind of worried she was right). Then I heard her talking, and went back in the living room. She said “it blinked”.. yet my AC isn’t on. Um, apology of being blamed for something I didn’t cause, please!?
She still wouldn’t.. then something came to her about a possible short in the outlet behind the couch, saying how she’s surprised it hasn’t caused a fire yet. She then shifts the blame from me to the lamp’s light bulb, saying the bulb is a 3-way (which is causing the blinking). I tried to assist by looking for a replacement bulb, but she only assisted herself.
Still never apologized for stressing me out. Oy.