Nothing cools down my computer like ice packs!
All you need to do is prop the tower up on blocks, then slip some ice packs underneath, with a fan blowing the air up and voila! Instant cooler.
shwaip had this to say only if it condenses somewhere
and i think he's talking about those blue squishy things...no moisture from those.
If the meateria is colder than the ambient temperature, you will always have condensation. Hold an icecube in your hand and see.
Then take a cube outside with negative temps (c) and compare. Can't argue with physics.
D'oh! I was attempting to be facetious. It seems my quest to find a person with a sense of humor on the world wide web is a preposterous venture. Honestly, if anybody would actually take the time to prop their computer up onto blocks, just to put ice packs underneath must be a bit absurd!
MadKowDZs had this to say D'oh! I was attempting to be facetious. It seems my quest to find a person with a sense of humor on the world wide web is a preposterous venture. Honestly, if anybody would actually take the time to prop their computer up onto blocks, just to put ice packs underneath must be a bit absurd!
If this thread was in the pub, i would have taken it as a joke. Posting it here in cooling, and the fact that i doesn't know you that well, i HAVE to take it seriously. After this, i probably won't take you serious at all.
Ah! I appears the tables have turned. I have become a product of my own frivolous bantering.
Of course, I assumed that writting the ending phrase "So, now you may... " was enough to convince the people of the fallacious nature of the post.
I will now propose a solution to the problem of "taking me seriously," and Mackanz, you might want to read this...
Alright, here goes...
If I make a post that is meant in a humorous way then I will place smily faces in that post (i.e. ). Therefore if my post has no smilies, then it is to be taken seriously.
I held a brick of dry ice near the front intake of my dual MP for a little while, then the block evaporated. When someone sends you cheesecake in the mail, what else are you supposed to do with the dry ice? Besides drop it in the toilet and close the lid...
You dont need to worry about condensation while using that ice pack idea (I know you were kidding) if you just buy a de-humidifyer at a garage sale for $15.
Umm, drasnor, ... you didn't hold it up with your bare hands, I hope!
MadKow: If you understand the origins of S-M (back in the old Apushardware and Icrontic days, Ghetto hardware modding was almost a sport around the forum!) then you'd understand why you were taken seriously at first!
Geeky1University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
edited November 2003
Why... what happened to your computer?
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Straight_ManGeeky, in my own wayNaples, FLIcrontian
edited November 2003
Actually, in Africa they use moist air to cool. The relative humidity is so low that the case inside is well within spec for numidity. Water falls down, cool air forced up by fan. That is for those palces in Africa with large and relaible generators, in mostr cases. those without use Burlap dipped in water hung over one open side of case,literally, for field computer desktop use.
Depends on RELATIVE humidity and how much cooling you get versus how much humidty at component location. Yes, can and has been done. A\C'd and well sealed structures can be 10-15% humidity without moisturizing, and Arizona and Africa can be similar many times, as can desert areas where moisturizing feels cooler in a climate where the sweat evaporates so fast your skin is dry all the time and a gallon to two of water a day is minimal intake for a non-life-acclimated human in that area for business reasons or such. So dry that skin needs moisturizing cream for those folks not born and bred there, also-- eyes need things like Refresh Liquigel 5-8 times day also, I have friends who have doen missionary work over there and they still correspond on the web with folks over there (African end uses CELL access for web surfing for the majority, some cities use Satellite uplinking).What we would think of as Web Cafes or kiosks are more common over there proportionately than direct connected users, as LOTS of Cell use is NOT microwave relayed, it is Satellite phones.
BTW, this post is literally true, those with electrcial power in abundance put the computers in refrigerators that self-defrost(costs MUCH less to cool a smaller cubic area than a large one when you have to truck in fuelk for many hundereds of miles many places in the world's dry zone).. Those are in the VAST minority, but refrigerators do use the fact that liquid grabs more heat than vapor, take Thrax's article about submerging electronics in cooled and non-electrolitic LIQUID for example.
John-- who knows places where moisture cooling in NECESSARY to not have what we would consider fast boxes die in less than a day. But in aplace where humidity is 50%-60%, for get moisture cooling, it is built into the air flow (fine-particle water vapor grabs more heat than dry air).
I actually did do this for about 5 seconds holding the brick in an oven mitt. I tossed it into the toilet afterwards, which surprised the next person to use the bathroom (fog coming out of bowl).
Ageek had this to say Actually, in Africa they use moist air to cool. The relative humidity is so low that the case inside is well within spec for numidity. Water falls down, cool air forced up by fan. That is for those palces in Africa with large and relaible generators, in mostr cases. those without use Burlap dipped in water hung over one open side of case,literally, for field computer desktop use.
Depends on RELATIVE humidity and how much cooling you get versus how much humidty at component location. Yes, can and has been done. A\C'd and well sealed structures can be 10-15% humidity without moisturizing, and Arizona and Africa can be similar many times, as can desert areas where moisturizing feels cooler in a climate where the sweat evaporates so fast your skin is dry all the time and a gallon to two of water a day is minimal intake for a non-life-acclimated human in that area for business reasons or such. So dry that skin needs moisturizing cream for those folks not born and bred there, also-- eyes need things like Refresh Liquigel 5-8 times day also, I have friends who have doen missionary work over there and they still correspond on the web with folks over there (African end uses CELL access for web surfing for the majority, some cities use Satellite uplinking).What we would think of as Web Cafes or kiosks are more common over there proportionately than direct connected users, as LOTS of Cell use is NOT microwave relayed, it is Satellite phones.
BTW, this post is literally true, those with electrcial power in abundance put the computers in refrigerators that self-defrost(costs MUCH less to cool a smaller cubic area than a large one when you have to truck in fuelk for many hundereds of miles many places in the world's dry zone).. Those are in the VAST minority, but refrigerators do use the fact that liquid grabs more heat than vapor, take Thrax's article about submerging electronics in cooled and non-electrolitic LIQUID for example.
John-- who knows places where moisture cooling in NECESSARY to not have what we would consider fast boxes die in less than a day. But in aplace where humidity is 50%-60%, for get moisture cooling, it is built into the air flow (fine-particle water vapor grabs more heat than dry air).
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and i think he's talking about those blue squishy things...no moisture from those.
I'd be more inclined to prop my 'puter on the window sill while being open, the cold has officially landed in Ottawa as of lastnight.
If the meateria is colder than the ambient temperature, you will always have condensation. Hold an icecube in your hand and see.
Then take a cube outside with negative temps (c) and compare. Can't argue with physics.
Infidel
If this thread was in the pub, i would have taken it as a joke. Posting it here in cooling, and the fact that i doesn't know you that well, i HAVE to take it seriously. After this, i probably won't take you serious at all.
Of course, I assumed that writting the ending phrase "So, now you may... " was enough to convince the people of the fallacious nature of the post.
I will now propose a solution to the problem of "taking me seriously," and Mackanz, you might want to read this...
Alright, here goes...
If I make a post that is meant in a humorous way then I will place smily faces in that post (i.e. ). Therefore if my post has no smilies, then it is to be taken seriously.
If the smilies are in parenthesis () or qutations " ", the post is to be taken seriously.
-drasnor
MadKow: If you understand the origins of S-M (back in the old Apushardware and Icrontic days, Ghetto hardware modding was almost a sport around the forum!) then you'd understand why you were taken seriously at first!
Depends on RELATIVE humidity and how much cooling you get versus how much humidty at component location. Yes, can and has been done. A\C'd and well sealed structures can be 10-15% humidity without moisturizing, and Arizona and Africa can be similar many times, as can desert areas where moisturizing feels cooler in a climate where the sweat evaporates so fast your skin is dry all the time and a gallon to two of water a day is minimal intake for a non-life-acclimated human in that area for business reasons or such. So dry that skin needs moisturizing cream for those folks not born and bred there, also-- eyes need things like Refresh Liquigel 5-8 times day also, I have friends who have doen missionary work over there and they still correspond on the web with folks over there (African end uses CELL access for web surfing for the majority, some cities use Satellite uplinking).What we would think of as Web Cafes or kiosks are more common over there proportionately than direct connected users, as LOTS of Cell use is NOT microwave relayed, it is Satellite phones.
BTW, this post is literally true, those with electrcial power in abundance put the computers in refrigerators that self-defrost(costs MUCH less to cool a smaller cubic area than a large one when you have to truck in fuelk for many hundereds of miles many places in the world's dry zone).. Those are in the VAST minority, but refrigerators do use the fact that liquid grabs more heat than vapor, take Thrax's article about submerging electronics in cooled and non-electrolitic LIQUID for example.
John-- who knows places where moisture cooling in NECESSARY to not have what we would consider fast boxes die in less than a day. But in aplace where humidity is 50%-60%, for get moisture cooling, it is built into the air flow (fine-particle water vapor grabs more heat than dry air).
-drasnor