2018-05-05 at 5:16 PM UTC
Need to use a mini itx computer with gtx 1080 in a mobile application to run htc vive games.
There is only very limited cooling capacity available inside, so contemplating modding the case with screened/enhancemented intake/exhaust ducts to the outdoors. So it is only changing outdoor air, and not contributing significant heat to the vehicle
Will it be able to cool itself sufficciently when its pulling in 90 or 100 degree f air?
2018-05-05 at 5:24 PM UTC
aldra
JIDF Controlled Opposition
30+ degrees? It'll work day to day but you'll probably get shutdowns when you're pushing it
Custom watercooling is expensive, you can get a bracket to bolt a cheap sealed water cooler onto your graphics card, but that will typically only cool the GPU, doing nothing to cool the VRAM which also gets hot
2018-05-05 at 5:38 PM UTC
aldra
JIDF Controlled Opposition
You can probably make do with powerful case fans so the heated air is rapidly exchanged, but I have no idea about sizes/rpm/cfm, all my recent build research went into water loops
2018-05-05 at 6:37 PM UTC
Ideally it would be a once-and-done solution.
Maybe water cooling is the smarter way to approach it. If you were designing it: A water-block for the GPU, water-block for CPU, and for the memory chips? Advantage would be smaller holes in vehicle for a couple little hoses, cause I was imagining a couple 2" or 3" air ducts. I could find a place to hide a radiator + fan underneath the vehicle
Then let the PSU and motherboard components air-cool with the vehicle interior air?
2018-05-05 at 7:08 PM UTC
aldra
JIDF Controlled Opposition
PS. watercooling can be troublesome if you over or undertighten connectors and the like, leaks are a pain
Yeah, motherboard and PSU don't get hot enough to warrant waterblocks for them - you can get a motherboard waterblock for some popular (mostly asus gaming-centric) models but if you want to go this way, you'd need to initially decide on a motherboard based on whether a waterblock is available for it. I've never heard of a PSU waterblock.
2018-05-05 at 7:36 PM UTC
Very kind offer on the water block, it looks like it might not work for my card which is a ZOTAC GeForce GTX 1080 AMP! Extreme, ZT-P10800B-10P . The Phanteks web page shows it is compatible with a ZT-P10800A-10P
I think the difference with my card being a ******B-10P not a ******A-10P is that would make mine a "Extreme" edition not a "Founders". I don't really understand the technicalities but I am assuming this means the circuit board has a different component layout and/or dimensions that wont be compatible with your block.
I had wanted to get an ASUS card which was supposed to be a bit higher performance than mine but the 1080s had just come out and the ASUS was backordered so I got a zotac..
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Guess I got some water cooling research to do
2018-05-06 at 8:28 PM UTC
computers and computing power are some of the biggest contributor to global warming.
2018-05-07 at 3:56 AM UTC
Soyboy
African Astronaut
[relevantly rival my dehydroretinol]
People who live in countries where the ambient temperature is regularly above 25°C shouldn't be allowed to own computers anyway.
2018-05-07 at 4:04 AM UTC
Just attach some extra heat sinks.
2018-05-07 at 7:21 AM UTC
aldra
JIDF Controlled Opposition
Yeah, my waterblock is for reference cards, it may or may not fit on others.
The way nvidia works is they license the card's blueprint to manufacturers - manufacturers often make changes to the layout to improve performance or reduce manufacturing costs. 'Reference' cards are the ones made to exact nvidia spec; they're typically more reliable and resistant to heat damage.
