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July 17, 2011, 02:18:28 AM |
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Okay, here is the deal. I live here in Northern Michigan. While it is not the hottest place, nor the coldest place, it freaking can feel like it sometimes.
During the hottest parts of the summer it can get to around 90F +/- indoors, and during the coldest of the winter it can get close to if not below zero.
I am planning out some ideas for how to handle both summer and winter for bitcoin mining, and part of that involves the possibility of either having a summer and a winter rig (which is kind of pointless since they should both be running irregardless of time of year), or having a rig that I convert depending on the season. Then again it is late and hot and I may just be talking out my butt right now.
Anyway, here at my home we have a back storage/work room that has no heating what-so-ever. Concrete floor, not really well insulated walls. In the dead of winter it gets really cold inside that room. The room also has plenty of power outlets, and I can get a wifi signal well enough from that room.
My question is this: if I was to take a mining rig that, in a hot summer indoor area would have the video cards hitting anywhere between 90C and 105C via air-cooling at full load, what types of temps could I expect if they were in a room that was naturally say, 10F or lower with no outer case. What types of issues could/would I face with that type of set up.
Since this rig cannot run at full potential during the summer just being air-cooled, I am tempted to convert it to a water cooled system over the winter, slowly getting the parts I need together, letting the air-cooled rig act as a heater at times, and then once temps rise, swap over to the quiet water cooled system and hopefully not have to worry about the heat output or overheating cards. However, would that then water cooled system be able to handle the dead cold of winter, or would that be too much for it?
I know i'm all over the place, but I just want to get a general idea of things.
Does anyone else live in an area that can get very cold at or below zero, or is anyone using water cooling for their rigs and what results in temps are you seeing on very hot days or very cold nights?
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