Running a computer in very hot enviroment

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duffgun

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Hello

I need to purchase/build a computer for my company to run in a greenhouse style environment, according to are surveyors the room was so hot a mobile phone that was left in there for a day had its keys melt (I don’t know if this was true though lol). So I need some sort of efficient cooling system and really low power parts. I originally thought about plenty of fans and a high end heat sink and fan but with the general temperature in the room so high it may not be very efficient so I have thought about water cooling. Does anyone have experience of operating computers is these sorts of environments?

Also what current CPU draws the least power while still maintaining a decent power output? (the computer needs to be able to run office).

Thanks
 
I have seen oil immersion computers in oil and gas environments (spark control etc), that have external radiator cooling.
 
What about a laptop that gets removed from the area when not in use? Any environment that harsh is going to be hard on any electronics left in there over time.
 
Plus heat is not your only problem. You said a greenhouse environment, the humidity is not going to be good on hardware either.
 
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I have had a talk with the person involved in this and it appears that it will placed near a wall that i can make a hole in, so i have more options open to me. i could make up 2 pipes that go directly from the computer to the outside one with a fan blasting fresh air into the front of the case and one pulling the hot air out the back and have a good HSF, the other option is a water cooled system with a chiller or an external mounted radiator, this needs some thought. I agree that the life span of the computer isnt going to be long with the humidity, sadly its a monitoring computer and has to be left in place.
 
What you could do is make two holes in the green house wall, one for intake and another for exhaust. This way the computer will be mostly cut off from the rest of the green house and thus will have lower humidity inside. Of course you'll have to find a case without mesh openings and side panels holes and such.
 
The computer will have to be put in an air conditioned environment. Build a hut around the computer and put a window a/c unit in the wall, making sure its vented to the outside.. I used to work at home depot and their 2 outside garden registers were in an enclosed air conditioned room with doors on each side around the computer and put a window a/c unit in the wall, making sure its vented to the outside.
 
Is there anyway he could build a water/air-proof setup where he could watercool it and not work about humidity? I'm just talking, I have no idea how you would, but its a thought.
 
claptonman said:
Is there anyway he could build a water/air-proof setup where he could watercool it and not work about humidity? I'm just talking, I have no idea how you would, but its a thought.
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Watercooling won't help as it is still limited by the ambient temperature. He'll need to add a compressor to the loop which will cause a massive build up of humidity.
 
Most air conditioning would not work effectively in that environment, nor would it be sufficient in humidification control.
 
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