Every single day I run into a great person with a great computer that is dying slowly. A time when a computer is literally asking for water, which should never be the case, unless you are actually planning on water cooling your PC, of course.
There's a computer in one of these doors!
Computer’s get hot, really hot. You always need to be thinking about that when it comes to placement of your computer inside a desk, under a desk, or on top of a desk. Think about what you are placing your computer next to when you place it, and if you are feeling like you might need some change in your life and you are going to be moving your desk around, you need to think about your computer’s lifespan.
Just as much as cable ties will clean up the area behind your computer that you will never actually see, making your computer visible all the time will help out it’s lifetime a whole lot. This may be a rather confusing sentence if you don’t understand the preface behind it, what I am trying to say is that a computer needs some air to breathe, and every day I run into a computer that is stashed, almost pushed aside into a nice wooden desk, with absolutely no fresh air getting to it!
It’s sad, really. Computer engineers spend a lot of time working on a computer’s looks as well as how well a computer actually runs. I guess that they might not be considered “engineers” per se, but more or less artists. Often times computer cases are displayed as artwork, and several of them are actually displayed to be only as artwork, and not even as a functional computer. So get your computer out of the closet and let it take in a deep breath of fresh air.
I keep saying give it some fresh air because a few times this past month I have ran into computers that are literally melting their parts inside due to the amount of heat that is building up inside of them. Now a days, most computers come built in with a temperature monitor that you might not even know about. Your computer’s temperature is kind of like your bodies internal temperature, but it can get a little bit hotter than what you run at. Computer’s should rarely, if ever run over 150 degrees farenheit. That is pushing it’s limits, and by “computers” I mean the processor of the computer. From time to time I find my computer’s video card rising higher than that, but that is only if I am playing a very graphic intensive video game.
I am sure you are asking your computer “When is he going to tell us how to see our computer’s temperature?”, here’s the time. There is a great application by a company that I have actually spoke about in the past, Piriform. This application is called Speccy, and it basically shows all of your computers internals.. and their temperatures, too! It is very simple, a quick install, and it lays out what everything is and what temperature everything is as well. Sadly the temperatures are in Celsius, but that shouldn’t be much of a problem with a swift search of Google. Speccy is a lightweight program from a great company, and if you are curious about your systems temperatures then you should definitely give it a try.
If you think you’re computer is running too hot, then you should probably shut it down, take all of the plugs out of the back of it, and maybe move it out into the open air. A lot of times people use a home made refrigerator modifcation to try to get their computer a little bit cooler, or even make a computer case entirely out of fans, maybe you could try the same thing?
Give it a shot, let me know if you did. 
