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When your room is sweltering and the heat from both your computer and the weather is making it difficult to do anything but do simple things like post on message boards and watch anime, what do you do?

Arrange a throughflow of air, by the strategic opening of windows and doors. Postition a fan to aid this throughflow, and put it on full blast (if the fan happens to blow directly on you, so much the better).


Crawl to the fridge, get a cold drink, in the largest glass you have. Add ice cubes to excess. repeat as required.

Not much else that can be done really.

I turn on the AC, which blows directly onto me and my PC, I can also watch TV from the same position.

namdoolb wrote:Crawl to the fridge, get a cold drink, in the largest glass you have. Add ice cubes to excess. repeat as required.

Cold Beer.

Indian lagers go down extremely nicely when it's hot.

Vendetta wrote:
Cold Beer.

Indian lagers go down extremely nicely when it's hot.

Beer rapidly dehydrates the human body, what an excellent solution to heat.

A large fan works wonders, as does copious quantities of moderately cold water.

My solution: remove clothing, dirnk water, and be glad that it isn't 120 in the shade, 130+ in the sun.

CmdrWilkens wrote:My solution: remove clothing, dirnk water, and be glad that it isn't 120 in the shade, 130+ in the sun.

Well, Southern California's not quite that bad, but it gets close.

When it's sweltering hot, my Radeon 9700 Pro All-In-Wonder starts to overheat, glitches the screen, and restarts my computer in any 3d-intensive game/flight sim. Which is about when I go read a good book until the room cools down.

This pisses me off, especially since I ripped off the goddamn VPU shim on the card when this first started occuring. It helped a little, but not much. Of course, now I can't RMA my card.

Still waiting for my Zalman ZM90C-HP graphics card heatsink with the OP-1 fan to come in....

http://www.zalman.co.kr/images/0311/ZM8 ... +OP2_b.gif
http://www.zalman.co.kr/images/0311/ZM8 ... -HP2_b.gif

This should help, because I don't have the cash to burn on a watercooling kit just for a stupid graphics card.

According to Iraqis who sympathizing with powerless New Yorkers, while wishing the power outage lasts 5 months, blow fans over tubs of water or ice.

Crawl to the fridge, get a cold drink, in the largest glass you have. Add ice cubes to excess. repeat as required.

Not much else that can be done really.

Ever go inside a walk-in freeze in the middle of a sweltering summer day, it feels SOOO good.