This furnace called my computer...

[tehfailsafe]

So I have 2 GTX580s now, both run at about 80c when under load in octane. And my home office is in the space of 6'x9' ( 2x3 meter ish ) with no windows... I also have to keep the door closed.

As you can imagine, after a short time of doing, well, anything, I have a 40c+ ambient temp in the room. It's like a sauna...

So I'm looking for solutions to cool the room off. Here's some ideas.

I have tried undervolting the GPUs a bit, which does drop them down to 65-70 but also slows down the renders. Idle temps sit in the 35s anyway. 2 GPU at 70c still heats up like crazy.

Cut a hole in one wall leading to the garage that can vent hot air from an AC unit ( no windows available ).

Remote desktop using a low powered machine via home network to the garage that houses the GPUs. I don't know enough about this option to know if it will work or not. anyone tried modeling over a home network to another machine? How are framerates? Is it workable at all? What about other tasks like games?

I tried a "air cooler" which uses chilled water behind a fan, but that just made turned the room into a hot swampy damp place. Even worse than without it.



Any advice/ideas?

[greg.thoman]

You could put your cpu in the garage and run cables for all your periphery through the wall.

[Qtoken]

There are devices known as KVM extenders, typically used in server environments to bring the console elsewhere, outside of the server room by using a single Cat5 or Fibre network cable.

example: http://www.startech.com/Server-Management/KVM-Extenders

Now, $300 is a bit much for such a device for such a simple solution, but simpler versions may exist at much more reasonable prices elsewhere - Still, Perhaps better than knocking large holes in your wall that you may need to repair later.

[tehfailsafe]

Ohhh boy. That's looking like a great solution!
To run peripherals through the wall would be challenging, do they make usb hub + dvi cables long enough?
The KVM extender sounds brilliant... I already have 3 slave machines in the garage for render farming, I didnt' realize I could keep my monitors etc in the room and move the main workstation out there too!

For the price it's worth it, was going to cost at least $200 to knock out a hole in the wall, and THEN I have to go buy the air conditioner...
Time for some serious googling. I didn't' know such a product existed!