I am working on building a new server in my apartment that will have a reasonably beefy GPU and CPU so I can get PCIE pass-through working and get a gaming VM set up.

Trouble is, my apartment is in the attic in the south. With the AC on I had one or two really bad days last year that it got up to 90 degrees Fahrenheit inside with high humidity.

Any cooling suggestions for something like that? Is 90 degrees Fahrenheit still cool enough to reduce the temperature of my components? I would really like to avoid buying a phase change cooler, but that is the only thing I can think of if the ambient is too high.

  • @False
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    110 months ago

    Nothing is going to get it lower than ambient aside from something with a condenser because physics.

    • @ChocratesOP
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      110 months ago

      Hey sorry, yes I understand that. I was just asking about water cooling I guess since I have never used it. I agree though the best I can do without phase change (or the fancy no moving part cooling thing that I never remember the name of) is ambient.

    • Toes♀
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      fedilink
      110 months ago

      Yeah the laws of thermodynamics can be a cruel mistress.

      • @ChocratesOP
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        110 months ago

        Room temperature super-conducting transistors when!?