Computer Room Hot? 481
Anonymous Coward writes "Here is a cool PC ventilation product I ran across. Like many faithful on here, I have multiple computers in a small room which really heat up the place. My office is a good eight degrees warmer than the rest of the house This product called R.A.C.H.A.L (Reduce Annoying Computer Heat And Loudness) vents computer exhaust into the wall, not the room. Might cut down on the electricity bills during those hot months.." Another approach: An anonymous reader writes "If your 'puter is getting to loud, you might want to consider some silent cooling. And the gang at OverclockersClub has just that. A three page review of the Zalman VGA Heatpipe Cooler. This thing is pretty nice looking, and with no power, no noise, what else could a guy ask for? Check out the review here. How come more companies don't do the "silent" thing?" Borked link fixed.
nice! (Score:2, Funny)
My house... (Score:3, Funny)
It's getting hot in here (Score:5, Funny)
Chicks love nekkid geeks in hot computer rooms.
Why? (Score:5, Funny)
The problem is, silence is golden. So therefore, in this poor economy, companies can't pay for the gold required and consumers can't really afford it.
Hey, man... (Score:3, Funny)
from the depths of AOL... (Score:3, Funny)
An anonymous reader writes "If your 'puter is getting to loud, you might...
BZZZT! Sorry Sparky. You lose any geek points by using the term "'puter".
Re:It's getting hot in here (Score:3, Funny)
Re:the tradeoff (Score:5, Funny)
dammit. I really need to lay off the RPGs.
Re:It's getting hot in here (Score:5, Funny)
Re:It's getting hot in here (Score:5, Funny)
If you hook it up to your sink (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:My house... (Score:4, Funny)
Seriously, during the winter months it makes a difference. Mind you, having my dog (a Newfoundland - think black St. Bernard) in the same room also generates enough heat to keep the room warmer - and he makes a great footrest.
Re:My house... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:That's not gonna work. (Score:5, Funny)
All that, and an associates' reseller program to boot? Step 3, profit!
-schussat
Re:from the depths of AOL... (Score:2, Funny)
It's just like writing in all caps is bound to lose you points, while writing in alternating, misplaced, or even no caps will probably gain you points (or at worst, have no effect on your geek points.)
How long until some jackass comes up with some sort of Geekagotchi, where you have it recompile kernels, mislearn spelling, and subtitle anime fan films, in order to gain the Geek points ot move to the next level?
Re:OverclockersClub Graphs (Score:1, Funny)
I tried charting the difference in anger, but it didn't look like much more because I was using a logrithmic scale.
It work great (Score:2, Funny)
Re:It's getting hot in here (Score:3, Funny)
Re:What about appliances and rack-mount? (Score:1, Funny)
tried this - was measuring 137 degrees F coming out and rising before ceasing such crazy experiments.
I suppose you could run the vent into a small box and put a nicely seasoned broiler chicken or small roast inside...
Re:from the depths of AOL... (Score:2, Funny)
let's see.... ahh, yes: unzip;strip;touch;finger;mount;fsck;more;yes;fsck; fsck;fsck;umount;sleep;
Toilet-water CPU Cooler (Score:4, Funny)
Here's a thought I had, but probably will never get around to building.
Lots of people go to the expense and effort of building/buying radiators or using large tanks of water as the heatsink for their water-based CPU cooler systems.
Last year, I started measuring the temperature of the water in my toilet tank. After a flush, it drops to 5-6 degrees Celsius. Between flushes, it gradually reaches room temperature, of course, but this is still no worse than a radiator or bucket. In practice, however, it never actually gets above about 10C (while room temperature is about 20C).
In other words, it's a supply of cold water which you were going to simply flush away.
Place a small bucket inside the toilet tank. Put a submersible pump in there, run the water to the CPU coolers, bring the water back and drain it over the bucket in the tank.
Everytime you flush the 6 beers you went through while flaming me for my Linux isn't ready for the desktop article [glowingplate.com], you can rest assured that the water which cools your CPU is being replaced with fresh, cold water. No mold, no mildew.
The purpose of putting the pump in the bucket is so that there's always a supply of water for the pump, even during the flush. And the purpose of draining the return line over the bucket is so that if your toilet tank doesn't refill for some reason, you'll still keep your bucket full of water and buy some time for hardware monitors to shut the system down if it's getting too warm.
I don't know how hot the water in the toilet will get, but think about this:
Of course, the only thing I'd worry about is the quality of the submersible pump. After all, if water leaked into the pump, then the water in the toilet could come into contact with one side of the AC line... the other side of which is grounded to your fusebox. If you happened to touch another grounded object while urinating (concrete floor, sink faucet, etc), then enough current could find that your stream of urine and urethral tissues are a more attractive ground path than the plastic sewer pipe. I think I'd invest in an isolation transformer (search ebay) to reduce the risk of highly ...unpleasant... damage.
Ahh... the joys of being an eccentric genius.
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Re:Toilet-water CPU Cooler (Score:4, Funny)
If you're going to go to all that trouble, you may as well wire your water cooler into the supply line of the toilet: the tank fill pipe draws from your water reservoir, which draws from your water supply. Add a cutoff valve in the event that your water is cut off and you're done.
Of course this all smacks of the sort of thing a teenager would do to his honda - expensive, failure prone, and mostly useless.
Re:My house... (Score:4, Funny)
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