Summer Cometh:- Look to your cooling and win....

[orionlion82]

This is no joke!
We had a windstorm/duststorm yesterday in Santa Fe.
window closed - airfilter on-
i could still taste the grit in the air, my airfilter is for a large room, and the one i live in is 9X11
it suddenly got up to 71 Deg outside while i was gone , and i had my shades open, lights on, etc...
when i got back the thermometer on my wall said it got up to 114,in here!!!
programs were crashing, temps were nasty...it was kinda hot, but i am a native texan, so i could take it....
i had to run at maximum underclock/undervolt till sunset, when the wind died down and it cooled off...
dont be cought off guard...

 

[Ven0m]

Can't you somehow make your CPU change speed depending on condition's, like P4 throttling / AMD's Cool&Quiet (but changed to only be affected by temperature)?

 

[orionlion82]

I read somewehre ( maybe oven on this thread) that it is possible with the right combination of software ( MBM5?), it would be nice, but it sounded a bit over my head...i am sure you could handle it, Ven0m...

 

[psyshack]

This is going to be the 1st summer in the puter/fishroom. Room is also on the south side of the house in Okiehoma. I have a compressor and machines get blown out alot. but the tanks are set between 80f and 87f. Seven tanks in here ranging from 55g to 3g. So the blinds will be kept down except for watching the foxy little life guard at the wading pool at the park across the street. The A/C register is located right under the desk.. Grumble, Grumble. So I need to do a mod on it with dry vent. The desk will look like it has dual exhaust. LMAO. There is a ceiling fan in here and two doors. I would imagine both will be kept open to help with room air exchange. The A/C return and filter is just outside one of the doors. I have a rather large air handler coil Ive been meaning to mount under the house and do a central water cooling unit. But I just cant make my lazy arse do it. This maybe the summer will have to see.

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[Ven0m]

I read somewehre ( maybe oven on this thread) that it is possible with the right combination of software ( MBM5?), it would be nice, but it sounded a bit over my head...i am sure you could handle it, Ven0m...

Heh, thanks for believing in my skills, but I'm not that great
Generally making MBM / Speedfan get temps is easy - they log to file. MBM supports plugins too, but I've got no experience with that. Then you'd need to use some program that allows speed change if that's possible with your current rig.
As far as I know P4 throttling for newer units is auto, if enabled. But for older - no idea. A friend of mine told me that even if some mobo utility that allows control over some stuff like CPU speed, supports only manual change, there can be some lib linked to it to take control over program. I'm not a hacker, so probably the best thing I could do would be program that gets temps from MBM and "clicks".

If your CPU supports throttling, enabling it would help in such extreme situations. If not - we'll try.

Perhaps there are some program that will handl all that, but I know only Speedfan and MBM and they can't do it I think.

 

[orionlion82]

ohhh, sorry i cant remember where, but maybe it was regarding -not cpu speed- but fan speed controlled by such a program. - anyways, i think one of the softwares' is sold with some high end gadget you plug all your fans into, and then set the speed curve in response to temperature...
in all reality we folders should have things like this, as well as some sort of programmable throttling....
my BIOS is supposed to do it, but i cant say its ever really worked...
yeah, lemme try here, ill set it to 40C just for fun and report back with an edit.

[the allmighty EDIT: ]

set the thing in bios to throttle at 40C and only take 12.5% load...
folding at full load, minimum fans... 45C...
does not appear to be throttling, and is still showing stock speed, however -
usually, FAH load temps are 47C-49C, - so just a touch cooler...
maybe ill get throttlewatch to check....

 

[Ven0m]

That's Speedfan that can control fans speeds, but some mobosdon't suppoert it. Uber-controller you've written about is T-balancer I think, but it's pretty expensive. Eventually if you use high-power fans and you'd like to use Speedfan to control speeds, there's an easy mod I described in fan controllers guide in cooling subforum.

For CPU that isn't heavily OCed, these temperatures seem to be good, but under extreme conditions, compter should get some extra cooling to stay at these temperature levels...

 

[psyshack]

Got my duals ran from ac/heater vent under the desk today. The desk now has duals... lmao. Now 9 fish tanks in this room all set between 77f and 87f on water temp. Three machines kicking heat out. Central a/c unit is set at 73f and its now 79f in the room. All machines have cpu temps of 43c to 47c depending on weather at this point. May have to break down and go buy a 5k btu 110v window unit for this room. Pull factory cord and sealtight the power down to a breaker and service disconnect for the main package unit ac/heater just outside a window in this room. With atleast one more tank coming in this room,, a 180g for some of my larger meaner fish that need space and and 3 more puters slated for this room its going to get intresting this summer to say the least.

psy

just droped to 78f... lolololol

 

[RoadWarrior]

Heh, you need to figure how to get your comps to heat your fishtanks

 

[TollhouseFrank]

LOL... dude... i've used my comp to cook before!

Its great!... it'll melt cheese in no time... and heat up your soup for ya... you can have hot soup and cheese sandwiches in about 40 minutes...

 

[mjw21a]

Thankfuly not much of summer left here in Australia. It will make OCAU that much more competitive though. As Overclockers.com's production goes down you'll find that the production of OCAU goes up as it get cooler here in Australia and overclocks go back up.

 

[jcw122]

Thankfuly not much of summer left here in Australia. It will make OCAU that much more competitive though. As Overclockers.com's production goes down you'll find that the production of OCAU goes up as it get cooler here in Australia and overclocks go back up.

yeah but it will reverse once were back to winter, still thats a REALLY good point

 

[Seven]

Yeah, OCAU is gonna ramp up this summer...

But, we must keep our production steady this summer...we can't afford another drop.

7

 

[TollhouseFrank]

hey 7..... some of us have some little tricks still left up our sleeves... i'm gonna try real hard... and if it works.... (if i can convince the 2 IT guys at the WV TicketMaster office), I have a possibility of over 200 borgs!.... the problem is trying to get them to install it....

 

[Seven]

Network installs work...

7