Salty tears of a hot boxer.

[Kural]

If you have read one of my many thousands of posts on this forum () , you will see that I was having trouble with the temperature in my room, due to 5 boxes. I got rid of my boxes and bought a Rock Quadcore Laptop for just over £3200GBP. What a mistake.

To call this thing a LAPtop is just completely ridiculous. It weighs more than my fat Grandma and on at least 3 occasions, I have been able to cook a full leg of bacon on the keyboard. If I was to put this on my lap, I would never ever be a father. I even bought a Cryo LX 3-fan notebook cooler.... still gets too hot.

After much arguing, Rock have agreed to give me a refund. So, I have 3200 of the Queen's finest pounds - and I have 1 question.

I want to run all 5 toons from one or (maximum) two boxes. Heat is a real issue in this room as it has one small window and no ventilation. What spec / parts should I buy?

Cheers!

[Kaynin]

A ->good<- casing. Thermaltake/Lian Li/etc. Spend some more money on a good, roomy and well built casing and you should be able to get away with all the heat quite well.

Multiple pc's would probably be a bad thing if heat is already a problem. The more pc's the more heat. So might want to consider venting the room better.

[Kural]

A ->good<- casing. Thermaltake/Lian Li/etc. Spend some more money on a good, roomy and well built casing and you should be able to get away with all the heat quite well.

Multiple pc's would probably be a bad thing if heat is already a problem. The more pc's the more heat. So might want to consider venting the room better.

Bleurgh. I can't vent the room 8o !

It's in a block of apartments and we are restricted from heavy modifications of the structure or fixtures. I have a window that is about 30 inches by 30 inches and it has a security lock on it - so it only opens about 6 inches.

I'm not brilliant with in-depth technology specs - could somebody link me a Mobo to get started?

Edit:

Just saw this http://www.microdirect.co.uk/Home/Product/37821 Good place to start? Don't want to give this too much overkill - but two Quadcores + 16GB of memory must surely be sufficient to 5 box on one machine?

[Kaynin]

A ->good<- casing. Thermaltake/Lian Li/etc. Spend some more money on a good, roomy and well built casing and you should be able to get away with all the heat quite well.

Multiple pc's would probably be a bad thing if heat is already a problem. The more pc's the more heat. So might want to consider venting the room better.

Bleurgh. I can't vent the room 8o !

It's in a block of apartments and we are restricted from heavy modifications of the structure or fixtures. I have a window that is about 30 inches by 30 inches and it has a security lock on it - so it only opens about 6 inches.

I'm not brilliant with in-depth technology specs - could somebody link me a Mobo to get started?

Edit:

Just saw this http://www.microdirect.co.uk/Home/Product/37821 Good place to start? Don't want to give this too much overkill - but two Quadcores + 16GB of memory must surely be sufficient to 5 box on one machine?

Overkill.

i7 920 CPU
12Gb DDR3 1600 (6x2Gb)
Asus P6T or similar Motherboard
ENGTX285 1Gb videocard
64-bit OS
SSD with 200MB/s+ reading speed.

Quite sufficient to run 5 on one pc with the least heat generated and quite affordable as well.

That in a good casing would be just what you need. Extra's you could put in as you have the money for it. You could SLI the ENGTX285 but, nah, I think one of these babies is sufficient for 5-boxing. Might not see much increase there. Another thing you can do is get several SSD's, one for the OS, one or more for WoW.

Altho since you got the heat problem. A Thermaltake SwordM casing with built in liquid cooling might be nice too. :P
http://www.thermaltakeusa.com/Produc...S=1240&ID=1418

[ragawaga]

Have a look at the antec 900 gaming case. They have lots of ventilation on on them - it's what I use...but I'm only running three instances on 1 machine....although, my gf also plays in the same room with 1 instance...using the same case.

[Clanked]

A liquid case wouldn't make the room temperature go down. The temp of the CPU and whatnot would be lower, but the heat has to still be transfered somewhere. It goes right back into your room through the radiator.

On a completely off topic note, I have often thought about going for the AirCooled Overclock World Record.
Living in Alaska, I could put my case outside when its -60 for some amazing air cooling :)

[Kaynin]

A liquid case wouldn't make the room temperature go down. The temp of the CPU and whatnot would be lower, but the heat has to still be transfered somewhere. It goes right back into your room through the radiator.

But your pc at least wouldn't go BZZZT---------- from running in a room that's much too hot.


To cool the room you would need something like

http://www.globalsources.com/gsol/I/...1006184386.htm

Those things generally have a flexible hose 'exhaust' that needs to go outside which has about... 6 inches diameter? Might just be enough to put it through your lil window there. The portable airconditioners are generally something like 200-400 usd..

[Kural]

A liquid case wouldn't make the room temperature go down. The temp of the CPU and whatnot would be lower, but the heat has to still be transfered somewhere. It goes right back into your room through the radiator.

On a completely off topic note, I have often thought about going for the AirCooled Overclock World Record.
Living in Alaska, I could put my case outside when its -60 for some amazing air cooling

Well at the moment - London is like the North Pole, I could try that!

I know that the heat needs to go somewhere, but a lot less will come from one box than 5.

On the subject of liquid cooling; Is it not quite dangerous? I suppose I could include it on my home insurance but I worry about putting a part in or something and a tube splits / hangs out / degrades and pees water everywhere. Is this even likely?

[Kaynin]

Well, that might sound nice but a PC works best at a certain temperature. Not too cold, not to hot.

Works both ways. :P

[Kaynin]

A liquid case wouldn't make the room temperature go down. The temp of the CPU and whatnot would be lower, but the heat has to still be transfered somewhere. It goes right back into your room through the radiator.

On a completely off topic note, I have often thought about going for the AirCooled Overclock World Record.
Living in Alaska, I could put my case outside when its -60 for some amazing air cooling

Well at the moment - London is like the North Pole, I could try that!

I know that the heat needs to go somewhere, but a lot less will come from one box than 5.

On the subject of liquid cooling; Is it not quite dangerous? I suppose I could include it on my home insurance but I worry about putting a part in or something and a tube splits / hangs out / degrades and pees water everywhere. Is this even likely?

Liquid cooling is dangerous if it's homemade. The profesional stuff is quite safe, no worries. :P