Computers in hot counties

[5614]

I was thinking about computer cooling and I was thinking is our aim to cool it to room teperature? Well with fans you can't really get it much lower than room temp, so in hot countries where the average summer day has temperatures above 40C do computers just live with the extreme heat conditions???

[Dave]

Most components have a pretty wide operating range in terms of temperature. You also have to bear in mind that most places that have computers in them are likely to have some A/C or similar.

[Dak]

I was thinking about computer cooling and I was thinking is our aim to cool it to room teperature?

the higher the clock speed is set (ie the more hertz that go through the prosesser at once), the hotter the prosesser gets (due to the resistance of the processer) -- if the prosesser gets too hot, the conductive properties of the prosesser changes to the point where the processer stops working properly.

 

cooling systems just stop this from happening, and the aim is to get them as cold as is nessesary for them to run at their advertised clock speed, although if you soup-up the cooling system you can set them to run at a faster speed.

[YT2095]

peltier semis can be and are employed as active cooling also

[TheGeek]

From what i have seen if you can afford a computer in some of those countries then it is mostly recomanded that you buy an airconditioning system or something similar to keep the room cool.

 

The other thing that they do with their computers is get a good cooling system sometimes cooling systems like watercooling or bunch of fans does the job.

[5614]

But a fan would only cool to room temperature... that's what originally got me thinking! But yes, AC, watercooling and peltier semiconductors (that's an interesting point YT) would do the trick.

 

But if you bought a computer in such a country, does it generally only come with fans only (is water cooling a big thing in those countries?)? And then it's up to you to instal AC, do many people do that?

[Callipygous]

most processor running temperatures i have seen i higher than most outdoor temperatures. unless there is a place where the temperature is hitting over 120-130 on a regular basis i dont think it would be much of a problem. (american, dont really know what 40c equates to...)

 

 

found me an online temp converter. 40c= 104f.

even my old processor ran at 112. my friend's runs at 132. world record high temp, as far as i can find, is 134. it shouldnt be much of a problem.

 

cancel that, 134 in the US. seems libya hit 136 at one point.

[LOGIC]

In my country the temperature reaches 52c in summer but that does not effect computers cuz no one could live here without a/c

 

my system temperature is 37c/99f and processor zone 41c/106f