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Case suggestions for High Ambient Temperature (self.buildapc)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by Chocrates to c/buildapc

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I am working on building a new server in my apartment that will have a reasonably beefy GPU and CPU so I can get PCIE pass-through working and get a gaming VM set up.

Trouble is, my apartment is in the attic in the south. With the AC on I had one or two really bad days last year that it got up to 90 degrees Fahrenheit inside with high humidity.

Any cooling suggestions for something like that? Is 90 degrees Fahrenheit still cool enough to reduce the temperature of my components? I would really like to avoid buying a phase change cooler, but that is the only thing I can think of if the ambient is too high.

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[–] False 1 points 10 months ago

I'd be more concerned about your computer making the room even hotter personally. To put it in AC terms, 500W of component power draw is 1700 BTU. May want to err on the side of more power efficient components.

But yeah, should run fine as long as you have good air cooling even if it's not ideal. Data centers are often run hot these days.