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fletch

fletch

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I was thinking of putting a system out in my shop.What are the drawbacks of doing this as far as heat and cold.I guess what I'm asking will it damage the pc if it gets cold out there? It is well insulated and should be ok.
 
that is sooo wrong. A pc should only be used at room temp, I would not operate the pc under 45-55 degrees or below. You can run a real risk of borking the hd , or at the least data loss.
 
Not to mention the crap floating around in the air in this shop. What sort of junk is in the air? Sawdust? Oil or gasoline vapors? Dust? Dirt? Metal shavings? Lint? Fans will suck this $hit right into the PC and clog it up right fast.
Tom
 
OvenMaster said:
Not to mention the crap floating around in the air in this shop. What sort of junk is in the air? Sawdust? Oil or gasoline vapors? Dust? Dirt? Metal shavings? Lint? Fans will suck this $hit right into the PC and clog it up right fast.
Tom
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No,no,no.It will be in a closed space away from dust and dirt. I was thinking of wallingup a small area say 10 by 12.I just don't know if I'll go to the trouble of adding heat and air.Sorry for the confusion.
 
what is the coldest that it gets in the room ?

maybe if you left the pc on all the time it might stay warm enough. I found that out from a customer i go to in the winter. Their house is like 40-50 degrees inside, my hands start turning blue. When they go out of the room i warm my hands on the exhaust coming out the back of the pc.
 
I would think where you are down south you would be fine 9 months out of the year for sure.

If the area is well insulated where the PC will be you will be fine.
 
I would say as a rule of thumb, that the human "comfort" range would be also good for a computer.
 
A computer WILL heat up a small room; trust me on that:D! I personally would only run a PC in a room anywhere from 50°F to 85°F, and then with low humidity. In summer, even 80°F ambient air that is humid will make PC temps rise to questionable levels, and even with direct air ducting to the CPU fan/heatsink, I don't run mine at all when room temps reach 90°F.
Tom
 
like ovenmaster stated, the higher temps can be deadly also. Something I found out about that. What ever your ambient temp is, blowing say 80 degree air across a heat sink will only remove heat that goes above 80 degrees. You could have the biggest fan in the wordl blowing air across the heat sink. The temp of the heatsink will never, ever drop below 80 degrees.
So if you have ambient 90 degrees, the heatsink will not go below 90 degrees and so on...
 
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