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Leave the Airconditioner on

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bob

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I turned off my 5000Btu window unit mounted in a wall for one day, to get some fresh air into my room. I came back to my house about 10 hours later at about 7:00pm, and my thermometer mounted on my wall told me that it was up to 94 degrees F, about 75F outside. My brother was playing Warcraft III on my computer, showing how well it performed on high-resolution everything.

I reached behind the case to pull off my laplink cable, and a wave of heat hit me. Two 3.5" fans were blowing out air at least 100 degrees. So, i pulled the case out from under my desk and popped the hood to see who was causing problems. i put my fingers next to the cpu... hot air... GeForce2 ultra? hmmm... no air... a little closer and it burnt a nice pattern onto my knuckes.

The cheapo fan that came with it had melted its plastic spacers on the axle and seized the fan
 
bob said:
The cheapo fan that came with it had melted its plastic spacers on the axle and seized the fan
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OMFG :eek: get that air turned back on STAT

summer is hell. if the central air in our house died it would be atleast a 100F in here.

hope you get a new fan cheap and back up and running again soon.
 
So true. I had a window unit in my room for about a week and sure it was nice and cool but it felt so dry and the scent of the room was just that--dry. I then took it out and now I have fresh air circulating throughout my room and in my halls 24/7 and I would never ask for more. Fresh scent of newly watered plants will beat that artifical air ANYDAY.
 
you have to be running a amd cpu as a intel would just crap out in heat like that
 
[hard]420 said:
you have to be running a amd cpu as a intel would just crap out in heat like that
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I think the AMD would have more likely cooked itself first. The P4's will at least try to throttle themselves back to reduce heat first. The first TMD fan on my Aeroflow died when I was out of town and the wife was using the computer most of the day, every day. When I came home and got on to check email and other junk I noticed that she disabled the alarm on the cpu temp. She said she didn't know what to do so she just shut the alarm off :eek: and kept using it since it seemed to work fine only it was slower. Mind you, the cpu temp reported by mbm5 was around 80c at idle (this was also before I had 2x120mm fans in the case pushing 78cfm each). Still running the same cpu, at the same 3.6ghz it was clocked at before and no problems.
 
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