It's getting HOT in here...
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… so take off all your clothes. ;)
I have a bit of a problem. I live in Australia where it is currently summer and the temperature most days is between 28[sup]o[/sup]C - 38[sup]o[/sup]C and the nights aren’t much better.
I have been mining using only my PC at the moment with my fairly new r9 280x and it’s getting pretty hot in here. I’m sweating :‘( :’( :'(
I really want to buy/build a rig or two but just concerned I wont be able to run them for very long when I have 6-8 GPU’s spewing out hot air. Does anyone have any suggestions as to how I could keep the room cool. It’s bad enough electricity costs AUD0.28cents p/KW, so having a power hungry cooling solution like a portable air conditioner just isn’t an option. And if the room is getting hot already with just one GPU, I don’t think any number of fans circulating air is going to cut it.
I was thinking a evaporative cooler might work, and will use less than 100W/hr. Anyone use one of these at all?
Anyone is a similar situation? or able to provide a possible solution?
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My suggestion would be two of these:
[url=http://www.ebay.com/itm/281216547428?var=580257938320&ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1497.l2649]http://www.ebay.com/itm/281216547428?var=580257938320&ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1497.l2649[/url]1220m^3/hour should swap out the air pretty fast.
Have one intake to get “cold” air from outside and one to blow hot air out again. If you have a dedicated room or something that can make some noise.
Its what I’m going to do when summer comes. -
That looks like a pretty good option.
1220m[sup]3[/sup]/hour seems a bit extreme though, I think even the 550m[sup]3[/sup]/hour would be suitable for for a 100m[sup]3[/sup] room running two rigs. No doubt you have quite a few rigs and would require the larger one.
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Even on an evaporative cooling system you need to get the “evaporativaded” parts/particles out, so i would say: give the fans - sugessted from svennand - a try. Cool Air in, hot air out of the room should be enough for normal rigs. Your 6 - 8 GPUs are making muuuuuch hot air so… 1200m3/h could be not enough, but test it… maybe you will need 4 or even 6 of the fans…
Otherwise you could build a watercooled rig with a room centralized radiator :) There are so much possiblities :D (aircooling is the cheapest and less efficient)
-Plopsi