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excessive cooling Anonymous
given that I live in a "hot house environment" (that is, no a/c, just a "swamp cooler" and in Arizona), you can see why I need to take such excessive measures to cool a machine.

that is a construction grade air mover (sold at sam's club for about $50.00) that uses a squirrel cage fan. its rated capacity is 450 cfm (low) and 1500 cfm (high).

the picture is of the unit and the machine its cooling is my 3 Ghz P4 Dual execution unit.

the followup in this thread will be the screen shot of how cool I am keeping my cpu with only AIR.
>> Anonymous
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this is the followup picture
>> Anonymous
looks cool, but there is a few things you should try. I will only mention one, though: maximise the use of your *airflow*. you should not just have it blowing throuhg a left-free slot. Try channeling your airflow. Additionally, include some airfilter or sth.
btw: its not cool to try showing off having many windows open :b

Is this thing loud?
>> Anonymous
what is the diffrence with out the fan?
>> Anonymous
>>77126
actually, its not very loud at all.

sorry for the "many open windows", it was an inpromtu screen shot showing the tempurature sensors dialog....
>> Anonymous
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>>77128

here it is without the fan...
>> Anonymous
>> given that I live in a "hot house environment" (that is, no a/c, just a "swamp cooler" and in Arizona), you can see why I need to take such excessive measures to cool a machine.

Um, you must have your swamp cooler set at a high temperature or it's not functioning properly. I lived in Tucson for 4 years and mine kept my house a lovely 72F throughout the whole summer.
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>>77195

there is no tempurature set on a swamp cooler. the airflow is the highest I can get from it. However, I live in west phoenix where the dew point has been in the upper 50's for over 2 months now (as you know, swamp coolers don't work very well when the dew points ecxeed 55 F!).

tucson is further south, but higher altitude than us. Also, phoenix is in the transition zone between the northerlies and the trade winds zone, so we get a lot of the stagnent moisture filled air that often settles in over plces like the middle midwest (yuck).

this pic is from a storm 2 nights ago (torrential downpour for 2 hours. totally flooded the street)
>> framerate
>>77203
be glad you dont live in southern new england, here the dew point pretty much matches our normal summer highs: upper 80s. A/C is a MUST for us. (i leave my AC on high 24/7 much to my parents objections, so my room is like, 50 all the time)
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>>77232
I used to live there as a kid (upstate NY - GFL area). the summers there (mid july into early September) were murder if you didn't have A/C (and the place I lived in didn't). I'm kinda glad I live in a desert now, though I do miss the snow.... I also miss scenes like this (see pic at left)
>> Anonymous
Mega cooling, yet running Win98 :P

And yeah, you should definitely duct that airflow and go for EXTREME MEGAHURTZ OVARCLOCK
>P
>> Anonymous
Meet my friend Liquid Cooling. Liquid Cooling, meet the op. Now, shake hands. Ok you can put away the retarded Swamp Fan.
>> Anonymous
I would duct that fan and move it across the room if I were you. Big AC motors and computers don't normally get along...
>> Anonymous
>>77494
that "swamp fan" is just a squirrel cage. the entire house is cooled by a "swamper". (ugh! made even worse by the fact it rained again this morning and now the place feels like a wet sauna).

someone else in this thread suggested I duct the airflow.
Actually, that is not a bad idea. I was thinking more along the lines of a sealed cabinet and 2 lines for it (one as the main cold air supply and the other for the warm air return and using a 5,000 BTU A/C unit to keep it cold).

I just need to setup a place for it.
>> Anonymous
NOISELESS
>> Anonymous
>>77477
how do you know its 98 nothing there gives it away
>> Anonymous
>>77612
Start button graphic is very telling.
>> Anonymous
>>77625
Also.. looks more like 200/ME to me
>> Anonymous
>>77627
Seconded. Does no one remember what the default BG color for 98 was anymore? *sigh*
>> Anonymous
>>77634

Yes. I'm still running 98. It works for what I use it for, and I see no reason to piss more money up Bill Gate's ass for anything newer.
>> Anonymous
>>77658
Just steal XP.
>> si3ge
i thought fans were magnetic and shouldnt be placed near most electronics, am i wrong in thinking this?
>> Anonymous
>>77716
> Just steal XP.

And a machine to run that bloated turd on? Should I steal that too?

I'd have bought it if I needed it. I don't.

I've managed to avoid Microsoft's forced upgrade cycle so far. I see no need to voluntarily bite the hook.
>> Anonymous
how to put linux on my pc without disc?
>> Anonymous
You phail for complete lack of liquid cooling...!!!
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>> Anonymous
why the fuck are you posting this in /hr/
>> Anonymous
>>77625
>>>77612
>Start button graphic is very telling.

actually, its windows 2003 advanced server (I know, I installed it).
that machione also "triple boots" with OpenBSD and Linux (on seperate HD's/partitions).
>> Anonymous
>>77758

a little hard on my budget pal.....

unless I was earning another $1,000 a month, it wouldn't pay for me to have liquid colling (hell, my neighbors pay over $400/month for running A/C in the summer and I don't have that kind of outlay).

guess it sux to live on disability (I happen to be visually impaired and getting a job in the tech sector in this part of the country is very difficult at the best of times <which this isn't>)
>> Anonymous
>>77792
>> Anonymous 08/25/06(Fri)03:05
>why the fuck are you posting this in /hr/

tyo answer your question with a question: why do you even care?
>> Anonymous
Spend your money on some god damn lazer eye surgury, your vision is more important than a PC that isn't going to get hot enough to melt in the first place. Heatsinks and PC fans are fine enough. :) Watercooling isn't TOO expensive.
But again, go get some damn eye surgury if you can.
>> Anonymous
and what in the name of god are you still using all those floppy disks for??
>> TuPadre
>>77195
I have been in Tucson for like the last 8 yrs or so and i run a Swamp cooler too...keeps my place cool.
>> Anonymous
>>77807
Actually, in the picture on>>77122and>>77141it is windows 2000 or windows 2000 server but part of the 2k family.
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>>78147
>Spend your money on some god damn lazer eye >surgury, your vision is more important than a >PC that isn't going to get hot enough to melt >in the first place. Heatsinks and PC fans are >fine enough. :) Watercooling isn't TOO >expensive.
>But again, go get some damn eye surgury if you >can.

it would be nice if that were the cure... let me show you what I do wear when I go outside.
the memory stick is for scale.

those are called scleral shells. what I have for eyesight pretty much ceases when I step outside in the light (retinal overload) so I wear these. now, I do use speech synthasis for the machine but I also use the screen mag utilities found in both *nix and winblows (*nix is better).
>> Anonymous
>>78151
don't know. a lot of them are probably bad. I use them for installation images of openBSD (among other things).
>> Teg
>>78147
Just make sure you get PRK and not Lasik, Lasik leaves retinal flaps that can tear under stress, and frequently degrades rapidly after 5 years or so anyway. Lasik is basically butchery. Frankly, I'd rather just wear glasses, there's no method available that I trust enough to fix my eyes... they aren't replacable with off the shelf parts, you know.
>> Anonymous
>>78343
lol, you're incompetent. PRK takes much longer to heal than LASIK. and you're fucking retarded for talking about "retinal flaps" -- do you even know where the retina is? hint: it's not at the front of your eyeball. LASIK does nothing to your retina, only the cornea.

maybe learn something before spouting medical advice next time. kthxbye.