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Old 05-20-2003, 06:07 PM   #1
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The dog days and my CPU

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ill be moving to Michigan soon and it gets up to 114 degrees plus humidity there. The dorms have poor cooling so we're looking at 85 degrees inside. i know even with a slight temp increase in my room temp i see a huge jump in CPU temp. I was wondering if you think it will be a problem there???... My temps now are 50 degrees. (40 if at 70 degrees room temp, 50 if at 80 degrees room temp).
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Old 05-20-2003, 06:42 PM   #2
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114 degrees plus humidity? Never. I lived in michigan all my life and the most is maybe 105 degrees. The thing about michigan it can be 80 degrees and in another couple of hours beg 50 degrees. You might need some case fans or something for your cpu temps if its going to be 85 degrees in your dorm.
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Whoa? I htough Michigan was like freezing, and newenglandish in the summer, but compared to the dark side of the moon thats pretty warm
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lol, i meant 114 (with) humidity (feels like). It varies considerably by location in Michigan also. I lived in Ann Arbor for 10 years and it was much milder than say Grand Rapids. The highest temp i can remember without humidity was 109 degrees. Thats still a lot hotter than 85 degrees (what im experiencing currently) (california).
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Inanimate objects like computers do not experience the "fell like" temperatures associated with wind-chill or non-condensing humidity. It's the thin layer of heat & water vapor that surrounds our bodies that are either blown away (wind-chill) or not allowed to evaporate (high humidity) that causes us discomfort.
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Old 05-20-2003, 07:45 PM   #6
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man! thanks for the reply but I KNOW! you guys are taking me way too literally. i guess i have a poor ability to articulate my descriptions. i just wanted to highlight how bad it does get. Actually, metal objects do experience a wind-chill effect whenever there is even a miniscule amount of vapor build up (caused by humidity).
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Will you be moving to the MSU? Just curious.
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man! thanks for the reply but I KNOW! you guys are taking me way too literally. i guess i have a poor ability to articulate my descriptions. i just wanted to highlight how bad it does get. Actually, metal objects do experience a wind-chill effect whenever there is even a miniscule amount of vapor build up (caused by humidity).
To be taken with a bit of jest:
Yes that is correct, but now your talking about evaporative cooling, and not the politically correct "feels like" which is exclusively designed towards the human physiology and psychosomatic conditioning. If you noticed I qualified my statement with "non-condensing humidity"

In order for that steel to even realize a degree of evaporative cooling, certain conditions must be met, constant flow of water, constant air flow, a reasonable temperature to cause evaporation, a low enough relative humidity to allow evaporation, and most important is a fresh air flow that has not been previously cooled by evaporative cooling or the air becomes saturated and the cooling stops.

You maybe thinking of the Bose-Einstein condensation cooling method.
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NK, no, im going to the University of Michigan although i did consider MSU. MSU is a terrific school too! it is just that Ann Arbor is my home town.

nope. i am thinking of the fact that thermometers will read higher temps in humid weather and that is how they determine "how hot it feels" etc. just like wind blowing across a thermometer will cool it. How do you think humans feel the extra warmth? They feel it because of condensation on the skin. metals are the same way. they really ARE getting warmer in humidity (albeit slightly).
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Old 05-20-2003, 10:59 PM   #10
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So what heavenly body will you be changing your location to?
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Lol! it will be changed to Ann Arbor, MI. That place is heaven to me. The Moon was nice for a while but it is so dark and cold. also it is very dry.
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Good answer, when asked about heavenly bodies, most people try to sound cool and claim that they have a heavenly body, lol
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Sleeppost dog..be for real one time. all is good, but some boat was missed.
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Old 05-27-2003, 10:37 AM   #15
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lol, here's the truth: i am not happy with where im living. i didn't want to move to California (from Michigan) but i had to follow the parents... so i d rather live on the moon...
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I love my mom and dad, and would follow them to the moon, but my life starts where their nose ends...
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Feels Like is BS!

All this %&$## about what the temp feels like.If it is 95 degrees it is 95 degrees. Wind chill I can deal with but hot is hot. BTW it is hot in New Orleans already 95+ degree days.
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Hi sleepypost,

My temps are about the same with my 2700+. I've lived in Mi. and Calf., each a couple of times and found southern Calf. to be a lot hotter than Mi.

You should be OK as there are millions of computers that work fine in both states.

Ann Arbor is nice, I've been there, but just curious, what part of Calf. are you leaving?? Must be northern Calf., eh?

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