Dylan <dylan@dylan.me.uk> wrote:
To begin with, unless you are using a refrigerator-type cpu cooler
On 16/02/14 07:11, Basil Chupin wrote: the
temperature of your cpu cannot be less than the ambient temperature
This is not true - moving air from a fan carries heat away more effectively than static air, so the processor can be several degrees below the ambient temperature, provided the fan and heatsink are reasonably clean. This is exactly why people use room fans in hot weather and we are given a "wind chill" factor in winter weather reports.
Wind alone just gets you to ambient faster. I brew beer as a hobby. If ambient is a few degrees too hot, I put the fermentation bucket in larger be verage cooler bucket and fill that with water. I then setup a fan to blow across the surface of the water. This guy didn't even use a fan, but he does use a towel to wick up the water and provide a bigger evaporation surface: http://samtierney.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/photo2.jpg The result is evaporation of the water bath. The evaporation process sucks energy out of the bath and cools it below ambient. That in turn cools the fermentation bucket. Greg -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org