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      specter last edited by

      Water would be my first red flag. Better just to put the PC in a fridge then to put ice or frozen objects on your PC. I’ve see PC’s in wine coolers but eventually you burn out the compressors on them. Better to look into a more efficient air cooler or water cooling (with pc water cooling parts ;D) Or if you’re still into doing crazy things look into nitrogen cooling. Nothing says overclocking then a bottle of liquid nitrogen!

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        Nixxle last edited by

        I am totally serious. I have put frozen packs of edamame, berries, even straight ice packs around my computer. As it melts, I rub the water into the hot plastic. But I put the ice packs between the computer and the cooling pad (a big - very big -white slanted logitech.) So most of the moisture drips down and away.

        Desk fan might work…

        Could I really put it in the fridge, and would liquid nitrogen work? Assuming I had appropriate material between the LN and the computer. And this is an utterly stupid question, but are you talking about the compressor on the fridge would burn out?

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          Plopsi last edited by

          Dude! No! Just no!

          Don’t do that. Keep the water - even the smelting water - away from your rig!

          The worst case would be a fire if something powerful on the board or PSU gets wet and short-circuits. Yes, there are protection circuites, but even they can fail or could not be fast enough. So:

          Keep water away and your rig will be ok :) - except closed water cooling cycles.

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          €: maybe you want to point me on the thread with your cgminer problems, maybe i can help.

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            specter last edited by

            [quote name=“Nixxle” post=“45095” timestamp=“1387214611”]
            I am totally serious. I have put frozen packs of edamame, berries, even straight ice packs around my computer. As it melts, I rub the water into the hot plastic. But I put the ice packs between the computer and the cooling pad (a big - very big -white slanted logitech.) So most of the moisture drips down and away.

            Desk fan might work…

            Could I really put it in the fridge, and would liquid nitrogen work? Assuming I had appropriate material between the LN and the computer. And this is an utterly stupid question, but are you talking about the compressor on the fridge would burn out?
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            Sure you can, but that much heat will eventually burn out the compressors in the fridge. Look into overclocking with liquid nitrogen and you will see how they do it. It’s basicly just a large hollow HS that they pour it into.

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              vizay Regular Member last edited by

              Out of curiosity,what temperatures is your computer running at?

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                HopeStillFlies Regular Member last edited by

                [img]http://i.imgur.com/A3pmRhQ.jpg[/img]

                I am not seeing how ice packs would’ve worked at all. What specs are you running? What cards? Or just CPU? Are you running everything in a case that’s closed up? AAAH

                Find a box fan. [i]Maybe[/i] do a ghetto air conditioner-

                [img]http://www.popularmechanics.com/cm/popularmechanics/images/bg/diy_ac_06_0910-lg.jpg[/img]

                • but even then you shouldn’t have to.
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                  Nixxle last edited by

                  I should probably note that the ice pack thing I’ve been doing since before my foray towards cryptocurrency. The fan has been so loud since I got this computer (about 2 and half years ago) that it irritates people. Its not an attempt to cope with mining as much as what the computer Gods seem to demand in sacrifice, but I was thinking in general since I’m trying to get mining up and running that I should kick it up a notch on cooling since I already have issues.

                  But it sounds like, with a few exceptions, that what I’ve been doing has been probably not the best idea. Seems like some sort of closed LN, a ghetto fan (Thanks for the idea and pic) might work. Not interested in burning out the compressor on my fridge. Its a really nice fridge. On a side note, I love my fridge.

                  Really just need a new computer, but thats not in the cards at the moment.

                  To answer the questions asked:
                  As for temps? No idea. Hot enough for the Blue Screen of Death if I don’t maintain some sort of active cooling above and beyond the computer fan. Its been this way since about three months after I got the thing, and HP said tough cookies on the warranty. (again as measured against pre-mining events. I’m not getting a lot of mining done at the moment. Frikkin December and its holiday cheer).

                  The GPU is a Radeon 6770. (And I suspect that, according to one of the guides, that I need an earlier version of cgminer due to this)
                  The CPU is an Intel Core i7-2630 QM @2 Ghz
                  8 GB Ram
                  64 bit operating system

                  I haven’t started a cgminer thread yet, but I will eventually. I need to get over some holiday stuff that seems to be sucking up every moment of my day. (The gall.)

                  So…no ice packs then is the consensus that I’m getting.

                  Update: I’ve always done mean things to my computers and make them cry, which might be why I’ve had trouble with this one since I bought it. I’m a hash master. (Mistress? Does descriptive gender matter in grammar anymore in 2013?)

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                    Plopsi last edited by

                    Have here a 6770 in my desktop, tested it with cgminer 3.7.2 runs fine. Wiht some parameter tweaking got ~209kh, no voltage tweak.

                    You should check if your coolers and fans are clean of dust, in 2,5year there could be much dust in them.

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                      Kevlar Spammer last edited by

                      [quote name=“MrFeathers” post=“45929” timestamp=“1387399387”]
                      To mine a significant amount of coins you dont want to baby sit your rig with ice, liquid nitrogen, or any other crazy idea. The only tried and true method of mining 24/7 with a standard HP or gateway or any other low airflow desktop case is to remove the side panel and point a big fan at the card. Cleaning dust out wont matter since those cases are low airflow to begin with.
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                      Yep. I just took my case side off and reduced the temp by about 15 degrees. No amount of futzing with it had anywhere near the same effect.

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                        Nixxle last edited by

                        All very useful suggestions.

                        Thanks!

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