Cooling cost.
Are you going to cool the cpu also or just a vga ? Do you want to go low cost or ?, Just to give you an idea of the cost in my new rig cpu,sli vga and all the works about 1000.00 and one can spend a whole lot more. I’m in the U.S. The 9590 came with liquid cooling kit so it;s O.K. I dont know that I’ll liquid cool the gpu’s but I got a blue screen because of heat last night. Aiming a small fan towards the HAF XB brought the temps down enough. If I do liquid cool them it would be nothing exceptional, just a modest setup to dependably cool them during gaming. I can run either 290X individually with no probs but when in x-fire the card in the first slot can get HOT. You can get closed loop coolers for the VGAs too… It is true, the 290Xs are running hot… and it’s common to get the first card hotter when you SLI them… – have you tried to adjust the fan settings?
Optimizing airflow.
A big part of summer life is finding ways to stay cool. One of the most obvious and easiest ways to do this is with air conditioning. But air conditioning gets expensive and pumping cold air into your house through furnace vents doesn’t mean all that cold air will spread throughout the house. What you want to do is increase air flow to move cool air throughout the house. This will keep your house cooler and help cut energy costs.
There are other benefits of increased air flow. It helps keep the air in your house clean, and cycles out dust, pollutants, and other impurities. It can also help prevent mold throughout the house.
Here are seven ways you can increase air flow and save money at home.
1.Unblock and clean vents.
Since air from your heating and cooling (HVAC) system(s) flows through furnace vents, if those vents are blocked by furniture or obstructed by debris, they won’t optimally allow air into the house. Go around your house, check all the vents, and make sure they are free of obstructions and debris. Vacuum registers regularly to remove any dust buildup.
2. Clean or replace your air filter.
The air filter in your HVAC system prevents dust and pollutants from getting into the unit. But a dirty air filter reduces air flow – and the unit’s efficiency. Clean your air filter every month to ensure your HVAC unit is working to its fullest capacity. Once every season, replace your old air filter with a new one. Replacing a dirty, clogged filter with a clean one can lower your air conditioner’s energy consumption by 5% to 15%. Open it up. If you are not using air conditioning, opening doors and windows is the easiest and most effective way to increase air flow in your home. An opening the size of a window or door allows a large amount of air to circle throughout your home. But opening one door or window alone won’t get the job done. Open several so that the air begins to move into and out of the multiple spaces.
3.Turn on fans.
Fans are, of course, a great way to get air moving in your home. When combined with open windows, they can work to increase natural air flow. Window fans are the most effective type. They are large, and because they work in combination with an open window, it combines the effects of both the open window and the fan.
4.Install an exhaust fan.
While regular fans blow air away from themselves, exhaust fans suck air back toward – and behind – themselves. The most common locations for exhaust fans are in the kitchen and bathrooms that are susceptible to the build-up of moisture and heat. A good exhaust fan will suck that warm, moist air out of the room and push it out of the house. attic and your home, helping to cool the entire house while relieving it of potentially harmful air.
5.Seal ducts.
In houses with forced – air heating and cooling systems, ducts are used to distribute conditioned air throughout the house. Studies have shown that up to 30% of the air that moves through ducts is lost through leaks and holes in the ducts. This means you’re wasting energy – and cool air in the summer and warm air in the winter. Check the air ducts for leaks. Most heating and cooling contractors can repair ductwork.
Hot aisle/cold aisle
Home Server hardware Hardware hot/cold aisle
Hot aisle/cold aisle is a layout design for server racks and other computing
equipment in a data center. The goal of a hot aisle/cold aisle configuration is to conserve energy and lower cooling costs by managing air flow.
In its simplest form, hot aisle/cold aisle data center design involves lining up server racks in alternating rows with cold air intakes facing one way and hot air exhausts facing the other. The rows composed of rack fronts are called cold aisles. Typically, cold aisles face air conditioner output ducts. The rows the heated exhausts pour into are called hot aisles. Typically, hot aisles face air conditioner return ducts.
A containment system can be used to isolate hot aisles and cold aisles from each other and prevent hot and cold air from mixing. Containment systems started out as physical barriers that simply separated the hot and cold aisles with vinyl plastic sheeting or Plexiglas covers. Today, vendors offer plenums and other commercial options that combine containment with variable fan drives (VFDs) to prevent cold air and hot air from mixing.
Best practices for hot aisle/cold aisle containment include:
- 1.Raising the floor 1.5 feet so that air being pushed by air conditioning equipment can pass through.
- 2.Deploying high cubic feet per minute (CFM) rack grills that have outputs in the range of 600 CFM.
- 3.Locating devices with side or top exhausts in their own part of the datacenter .
- 4.Installing automatic doors in the data center.
Adding cooling.
Cooling a high-power gaming laptop has always been limited to fan cooling but now Asus is introducing liquid cooling to the mix. That’s right, you didn’t read that wrong. Asus has indeed introduced a water-cooling system complete with a pump and radiator that docks with its new flagship gaming laptop, the ROG GX700.
By even regular 17-inch standards, the ROG GX700 looks like an alien pod ready to take off on its own. And so it seems fitting that the liquid cooling module attaches to the back of the laptop as if it were refueling.
Asus is short on details about its new flagship gaming laptop, but it will be equipped with a Skylake K-series CPU capable of overclocking and a 4K display. The notebook will also come outfitted with a Nvidia GeForce GTX graphics card, however, concrete details are yet to be determined as is its release date, which is only slotted for the tail end of 2015.
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