Core temperatures when rendering

Jaderail

I shied away from Liquid cooling myself for years because of horror stories. But there are now 100% sealed systems that come with a total PC guarantee. I'm covered for the next 5 years. By which time this PC will be so out of date.

TIP: External Backup Drives cover those What if's.

Kerya

I have two external backup drives (WD Elements Portable 2TB USB 3.0) since December. :)
But the What if's what wreak havoc with more than the harddrives ... at least my friends PC was quite thoroughly dead.

JonnyRay

My PC (full tower) had to go under a desk; so I used a hole saw to make a hole in the back corner (well behind my monitor) and mounted a USB powered case fan there so I could exhaust the hot air from under the desk. Not recycling hot air back through the PC lowered overall temps on most of my sensors by an average of 5 degrees under sustained loads.

Taoz

Kerya said:

Dream Cutter: yes, I am doing the canned air dusting every 2-3 months (not much dust in that room).

Canned "air" (which actually is a gas) is expensive and not very effective IMO. So I bought a small $100 portable compressor instead. Very disappointing though - the first second it's quite powerful but it quickly loses its breath (no compression chamber to build up pressure, it seems).

Then I saw some small $10 turbo pumps in a store, which were for pumping up inflatable swimming pools and stuff like that, so I thought, let's try one and see what it can. I was pretty surprised how powerful it was - much more than the compressor!

The only thing I wonder about is if the air from such a thing can be loaded with static electricity, as it's made from plastic. Wonder if there is a simple way to measure this. Have cleaned several machines with it and haven't noticed any problems though.

Attached picture of the box, the pump itself is about 13 cm high.

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Kerya

That is a nice idea!