Just puttin along...

[Brucifer]

That's a nice simple one. However, I'm in the spot of about 20 systems in the same room, so there is quite a bit of heat generated. The bottom line is that anything that exhausts heat into the same room isn't helping to solve the basic problem.

I was thinking more along the lines of what AMDave was mentioning or moving to. What I need is a good sized tank that in turn is the reservoir for multiple systems, with a large radiator/fan setup either under the house or outside, so that the heat is moved someplace else.

Of course the wife"s solution to this is "just turn them off." :shock:

[Brucifer]

Looks like Greenbank is taking over as the maximum siever with his G5 stuff. He turned in a good sized range as completed earlier today. More power to him. If I was a rich man, I'd run right out and buy 3 or 4 of them buggers, but I'm not. Still haven't recovered from the lost of my amd-64 3700 for that matter. Anyway, it's doubly sweet for Greenbank since he also wrote the client for the G5 sieving which is no small feat in itself!! So congrats greenbank!!

[vaughan]

Wow Brucifer - 20 of the critters. I thought my office was cosy enough with 15 of 'em. I turned off 2 of the slowest boxes. My wife is growing suspicious that I'm taking over the loungeroom now as I have managed to put 2 laptops out there. Sort of eerie when you look around the house now and there are computers in just about every room. What you say not EVERY room? Well I'm working on it.

[Nflight]

However, Nflight has me thinking... I used to have fish. In a fish tank. The shops have lots of tanks on the same water and air exchange and cleaning systems. It occurs to me that I haven't yet seen an extensible liquid-cooling system that might be applied to SMP rack servers or a series of adjacent PCs. Has anyone manufactured this already or do I expect too much?

The thought I had was to connect the two systems with a repetitive hose feed system where by I can use one large heat exchanger to extract the heat somewhere else, either heat the water in the Hot Water Heater or expell the heat outside. Now this means that the first CPU would not see the second CPU due to the increase of heat from the first. Kind of like a gang effect, 2 seperate loops of heat transfer but double stack of radiators with one huge blower/sucker to expell the heat. I will have to think on this but maybe we could ask some experts in the field and see what they think of our hormoneous ideas?

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[Brucifer]

Wow Brucifer - 20 of the critters. I thought my office was cosy enough with 15 of 'em. I turned off 2 of the slowest boxes. My wife is growing suspicious that I'm taking over the loungeroom now as I have managed to put 2 laptops out there. Sort of eerie when you look around the house now and there are computers in just about every room. What you say not EVERY room? Well I'm working on it.

And I've got parts around so I could add to the collection, but like you I have a wife and she isn't letting me expand.....

[vaughan]

... but like you I have a wife and she isn't letting me expand.....

She's working on that by cooking fantastic meals - hi Lisa O

I managed to persuade her to join in the fun of using computers. She is running her web-site and business on-line now.

Boy do I get into strife if I "waste out" our download limits "running somebody else's projects" when she wants to use the internet.

[Brucifer]

Mine isn't into the computer thing at all. If the internet rotted away she wouldn't even notice it.

[Strongbow]

Mine's much more dangerous! ...she thinks she understands computers! in fact she thinks that she is a great driver as well (even though she ripped the bumper off her Land Rover in our drive last week! :roll: