Computer heater

[rh77]

Originally Posted by psyshack

I Fold!!!! Puter room stays very warm indeed.

Q6600 @ 3.6 ghz
E6600 @ 3.36 ghz.
E6400 @ 3.28 ghz
XPM @ 2.4 ghz
Lappy @ 1.7 ghz

All run 24/7, 100% cpu load. Four air cooled. One water cooled.

Then through in the fish tanks I have running in the room. It gets very warm.

I have 3 PCs in the basement -- old recycled models for folding:

2 @ 1 GHz
1 P-III @ 450 MHz
(stays cool downstairs for the "antiques")
4 Laptops in the house:
One -- had to give up folding (backup in case one goes down, for the road) ~1.4 Celeron
- The Wife's Dual-Core Dell with T7200 @ 2.00 GHz (intermittent folding, powerhouse otherwise).
-"The Highwayman" 1.7GHz (this one is used 99% of personal use, always folding 24/7, 100% unless on batt) -- HP Pav dv1331se -- great screen and DVD replay. it's pretty beat-up from the miles and heat. Separate from the folding, it's on it's 4th board, power input and power supply (AC adapter). May be the last HP I buy. It's holding on, tho...
-Dual-Core HP 2.4-ish? for the Work-provided one (can't get folding to work well on the company PC).

It's a weak lineup, but it's better than nothing, right???

I take-in old computers and put them to work.

That's cool (literally) with the water-cooled unit! I put my $$$ into laptops for road power.

I'm torn what to do next month -- company stipend for personal computer use ($1200). A desktop would get lots of power, and I could built it myself. Problem is, the lifestyle around the house is laptops on Wireless (printing, backup, everything). I like to play Flight-Sim, and the 1.7 can't handle FSX, so I'm running the old 2004. I'm still looking for a way to do a dumb terminal from the laptop (screen, keyboard, touchpad) and hide a box behind the couch or something. But, that gets me nothing on the road -- but laptop power is 'spensive. Meh, we'll see.

RH77