[rescue] fans fans fans...

[rescue at sunhelp.org]

Sounds like water cooling (common in previous generation mainframes, still
used some). It wasn't usually water, it was glycol or something else to
prevent corrosion, and it was often part of the facility air conditioning
system (in IBM/Liebert land anyways). Even with cooling they didn't make the
liquid cold, they usually ran it at 70+ degrees to avoid condensation. I
don't understand PC-modders (identifiable by the neon lights in their custom
painted computers) who use electro-thermo thingys or refridgeration for
cooling as that would cause condensation water drips.


James Fogg, Network Engineer
Vicinity Corporation - New Hampshire
(603) 442-1751

~ -----Original Message-----
~ From: lesliec at theplanet.com [mailto:lesliec at theplanet.com]
~ Sent: Friday, June 21, 2002 11:25 AM
~ To: rescue at sunhelp.org
~ Subject: [rescue] fans fans fans...
~ 
~ 
~ With all this talk about U1 fans, and on the cobalt list I'm 
~ on, _they're_
~ always talking about fans..  I was wondering.. is there an optimum
~ temperature for a CPU? Is cooler always better. Is freezing 
~ best? This Q
~ made me remember an HP-RISC processor I sold once.. it had 
~ friggin cooling
~ lines running thru it. - dont know if they were for air or a cooling
~ liquid. Hell. even HPs heatsinks were awesome: CNC cut 
~ stainless, and not
~ with _straight-cuts_ but arcs! must have weighed 5 lbs..
~ 
~ Les
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