Yeah, GG, that's more like it and seems the only way to go with ambient air over 30ºc - in fact our swimming pool (no heating, the water is just lying there indoors but in the sun, big windows) is also over 30ºc.
I have a small solid-state cooler box (12v dc or 220v ac) which would be ideal, in fact I did consider taking the cooling unit out and fitting that in my ATX case, until I realised how much condensation water drips off the Peltier fins on humid days ! The ATX case and the cooler box are about the same size and beer gets VERY cold in the cooler box, so this would be ideal in the ATX, fitted with a drip tray and pipe to the outside. Maybe a brass pipe.....oak drip tray...brass header tank with nice analogue contents dial over it...rotary brass handle to top up water tank....I feel an attack of steampunk coming on.
I just disabled AMD's "cool 'n quiet" and can detect no difference to the cool or the quiet. Anyone else found this ?
Last edited by OFSO; 27th Aug 2012 at 13:22.