[ale] Enclosed Desks

[Christopher Fowler]

Consensus states to take off the door.  No problem.  I prefer to take it
off then leave it open anyway.


On Sat, 2002-06-22 at 12:10, Jeff Hubbs wrote:
> On Sat, 2002-06-22 at 10:20, Christopher Fowler wrote:
> > I just moved my Linux box into a compartment in a desk I have.  This
> > compartment has too doors and a square hole in the side for the cables. 
> > My question is are these desk designed for the heat that new computers
> > generate?  I opened the doors this morning and it was a little warm in
> > there.  I would like to put 2 PC's in there.  Any suggestions?  Any
> > dangers?
> > 
> > thanks,
> > chris
> > 
> Chris -
> 
> What you've already said strongly suggests that it's NOT designed to
> keep an anywhere-near-recent computer in.  I have a 1GHz T-bird in a
> desk's bottom compartment that's open to the front, the rear, and the
> top - you can stick your hand over the back of the desk and feel the
> toasty warmth (24/7 SETI at Home, natch!).  If you shut one or, God forbid,
> TWO machines in a fully enclosed compartment, hee hee, I can just
> imagine...
> 
> The worst of it is that both machines' intake air will largely consist
> of their exhaust air, so the air temp inside will rise and rise until
> some equilibrium is reached or until a box fries, which would probably
> happen at some point regardless.
> 
> I can understand the draw of using that enclosed space for neatness' and
> noise's sake, but unless you forced-air-ventilate it somehow, it's going
> to be a "killing cage" for your machines.
> 
> You could always try water-cooling but you'd have to run hoses out to a
> heat exchanger somehow.
> 
> - Jeff
> 
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