Summer on PCs

[George Toft]

Having just moved from Hawaii, where the summertime is mid-90's
with 90% humidity and no A/C, I offer this data:
- My neighbor fried three hard drives;
- I had a large number of lockups, and eventually traced it to a faulty
OS (Windows), which I replaced (with Linux).

Here's an interesting link on building your own water-cooled CPU:
http://www.agaweb.com/coolcpu/build.htm
It seems the PVC end cap is the same size as a socket 7 CPU.  This is
the true spirit of Hacking!!!

George


Armin Hartinger wrote:
> 
> I'd like to move my constantly-running Linux server into the garage. One
> less humming noise-maker in the house. Now the question to those
> Arizonians is, if any of you has experience with running PCs at such
> high environment temperatures.
> 
> Temperature is the biggest issue. Of course, I'd try to pick components
> which aren't already running hot (so no o/ced CPUs, 10K SCSI drivers or
> similar). Still, the question remains if maybe the whole attempt to run
> a PC with standard office components at outside temperatures isn't
> entirely futile.
> 
> Any experiences?
> 
> -Armin
> 
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