Combating summer temps

[Ham]

Just wondering what people ideas are to combat the ever increasing abmient temps summer brings about.

Ive noticed a rise of 8° in my room now.

Im guessing PV will probably be well experienced at this.

 

[JN]

Ice Polls tbh

 

[PV5150]

A small portable air-con unit as pedestal fans do squat. They simply re-circulate warm air. I keep the windows open, but blinds semi-shut for the warmest part of the day here.

 

[Toxcity]

Windows open all night.

Take case to bits to allow air to move through.

Buy a £10000 air con!

 

[Bogel]

I am faithful to my window unit and if thing really heat up, just dust off meh box fan

 

[Toxcity]

I was thinking of getting a freezer in my room and put a passive rad inside it..

Could be intresting!

 

[Bogel]

You mean like a mini fridge or like one of those umm crud what are the called...we have oen in our basment just forgot the name.

 

[Ham]

It'll break the freezer after a few hours, and subsiquently your rig. + ud have to insulate all your pipes, blocks and PCBs .

If you stripped the insulation out the fridge and just left the metal shell. Then mounted you comp in there, you mite be onto an idea there. Climate controlled case.

 

[Bogel]

You know i am tempted to move my setup down stairs and try that, just got to find a place ot move the stuff out of the freezer, how man computer you think you could fit in one 1,2,3? maybe 4?

 

[PinGu^]

Deskfan ftw

Yea i leave my window and door open, and normally stick a few fans pointing towards my pc

 

[Toxcity]

It'll break the freezer after a few hours, and subsiquently your rig. + ud have to insulate all your pipes, blocks and PCBs .

If you stripped the insulation out the fridge and just left the metal shell. Then mounted you comp in there, you mite be onto an idea there. Climate controlled case.

Why would it break the freezer?

 

[Ham]

Freezers are designed so that once the content is cold, they stay cold. Not heat back up again like a pc does. The refrigeration system just can't handle a constant load for a long period of time.

The exact physics behind it alludes me as ive just been informed my curry is ready.

 

[Toxcity]

Freezers are designed so that once the content is cold, they stay cold. Not heat back up again like a pc does. The refrigeration system just can't handle a constant load for a long period of time.

The exact physics behind it alludes me as ive just been informed my curry is ready.

Damn! I thought it was an awesome idea!

 

[Bogel]

man, bummer. saves one freezer from the junkyard

 

[deathwish]

Damn! I thought it was an awesome idea!

you could fill a freezer with those cold packs surounding the passive rad leave the freezer on all night allowing the cold packs to freeze turn the freezer off run the pc useing the stored energy in the freezer this wouldent damage the freezer unless you turned it back on before the rad temp had droped but its posible

 

[PinGu^]

you could fill a freezer with those cold packs surounding the passive rad leave the freezer on all night allowing the cold packs to freeze turn the freezer off run the pc useing the stored energy in the freezer this wouldent damage the freezer unless you turned it back on before the rad temp had droped but its posible

Very true, but would it be worth it? Id get quite annoyed if i had to but freezer blocks in my freezer everynight.

 

[llwyd]

Very true, but would it be worth it? Id get quite annoyed if i had to but freezer blocks in my freezer everynight.

Worth it? haha it wouldnt work mate, you would get a few minutes of coolness and then it would overheat like mad

 

[Rastalovich]

In this room as a whole it`s ok. Around the 3 pcs, it`s readin 36 on the 3rd eye. Up from 32 about a week ago.

Cpus are happy enough thought.

 

[!TIMMY!]

Last summer I just used a desktop fan blowing air into the front of my pc (all mesh front case).

 

[old.gregg]

my PC thinks it's summer already.

A couple of weeks ago a Maxtor Diamondmax 10 started hitting temps of 46C in the early hours - room temp was only 11C. Case is well ventilated and the HDD is encased in a Zalman heatpipe cooler.

Had to remove side panel and place 12" desktop next to HDD bay to blow the temp down to about 31C.

I can't prove that it is the HDD that crashes my PC - but it stops crashing when I get the temp below 41C. Have never lost any data though which is very lucky.

Last week 12" was not enough. Bought a 16" fan. Quieter and much chillier.

Saw an 18" monster fan in Currys for £49 - would have bought that if I'd seen it first.

Still waiting tech response from Seagate, but I know that I really should get a new drive.

Maplin have got a deal on an unsophisticated air cooler at the moment

http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=35327&TabID=1&source=1&doy=20m4