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16-04-2007, 14:36
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2 aircon units in my playroom.
1 in the lounge and 1 in the bedroom. Still hits 30°C at points in the playroom though. Having a double glazed 12ft wide and 5ft tall window doesn't help.  Blackout blinds are going to be fitted this year when I can be bothered. Simon/~Flibster [edit] Oh..and compute naked!  [/edit]
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16-04-2007, 18:49
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31.8c in the hotspot in the corner of my computer room right now. Going down now I have max strength antihistamines and should be able to cope with a bit of pollen floating about.
 (box fan, pretty much attached to the windowframe, so the only air it's moving comes from outside) |
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16-04-2007, 19:12
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Can you not get rid of some of your equipment? It just seems a bit OTT and overkill for a student room at uni....
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16-04-2007, 23:09
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To many people, turboing your MX5 is OTT and overkill... I dont see this as any different
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16-04-2007, 23:13
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It's very different - but it's a whole other debate I can decimate you with later. Fair enough you like your stuff, I guess taking advantage of the free uni electricity is a good way of learning all the stuff. Can you not reduce the number of screens for a start? It's one of those things I think you're just going to have to get used to. It's the premium you pay for having lots of cool kit in a small confined space. If you feel you can afford an A/C unit then in my opinion it's the most sensible way to go - or you could do some hardcore water cooling
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16-04-2007, 23:21
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Decimate me? Bit agressive for a friendly forum innit? Or is that the way things are going around here...
The screens are purely because I like to be able to see everything I am working on at once - KVMs are tedious and terrible for higher resolutions unless you fork out more money than additional TFTs would have cost and in any case, they dont really contribute THAT much to the heat... Its not like all of a sudden I just went out on a mad spending spree and bought a load of kit... I have lived with a lot of kit for a lot of years and lived with the heat, I was merely wondering how other people cope with more kit with a view to the summer. It would appear that A/C is the only viable way forward - and its not the cost that puts me off, its the noise they put out...
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16-04-2007, 23:25
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Lighten up kid, I was only being facetious
Or do I have to get some man love out?  There 
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16-04-2007, 23:27
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Kid?
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16-04-2007, 23:42
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Well it is going to be damn hot in that room this weekend, whenever i go down there he complains that i tip the balance. He needs at least two screens so that i can play zoo tycoon while he is doing nerd stuffs.
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17-04-2007, 10:01
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Fwiw power and cooling are big issues in the data centre at the moment, everyone is talking about ways to reduce the power being consumed, cooling required and ultimately the number of physical devices in server rooms/racks.
I've done the same myself on a little scale. I have one box virtualising 3 and a laptop - easy to manage. Maybe you should look at consolidation?
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