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<blockquote data-quote="chas_m" data-source="post: 1527557"><p>Yes, people are completely goofy when it comes to what constitutes "hot" or "cold!"</p><p></p><p>When I lived in Florida, anything below 70F was "freezing!"</p><p>Where I live now, anything above 80F is "a heat wave!!"</p><p></p><p>My current resident is un-airconditioned because we don't need it here for the very occasional "actually hot" day.</p><p></p><p>In Florida it's practically against the law not to have central AC *and* your own pool *and* a car with AC. Indeed, most people there spend most of their time in an AC environment and almost no time outdoors, particularly during the summer (except when swimming or going to the beach to get a tan, of course, then the heat is perfectly acceptable!).</p><p></p><p>One other thing to remember: it is a myth that computers need to be kept freezing cold to work properly. That was true in the 80s, it's not true anymore. Certainly you can overload/overclock a computer better in cold rooms than warm/hot rooms, but "normal temperature" for processors under load is well north of what you or I as humans would find "hot."</p><p></p><p>Case in point: my computer just finished converting a big AIFF file to MP3, but other than that it's not doing anything (except me typing this). Current CPU temp: 74C (169F). The fans are on, yes, but barely noticeable, and that's because they are cooling the machine from the AIFF->MP3 conversion from a few minutes ago.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="chas_m, post: 1527557"] Yes, people are completely goofy when it comes to what constitutes "hot" or "cold!" When I lived in Florida, anything below 70F was "freezing!" Where I live now, anything above 80F is "a heat wave!!" My current resident is un-airconditioned because we don't need it here for the very occasional "actually hot" day. In Florida it's practically against the law not to have central AC *and* your own pool *and* a car with AC. Indeed, most people there spend most of their time in an AC environment and almost no time outdoors, particularly during the summer (except when swimming or going to the beach to get a tan, of course, then the heat is perfectly acceptable!). One other thing to remember: it is a myth that computers need to be kept freezing cold to work properly. That was true in the 80s, it's not true anymore. Certainly you can overload/overclock a computer better in cold rooms than warm/hot rooms, but "normal temperature" for processors under load is well north of what you or I as humans would find "hot." Case in point: my computer just finished converting a big AIFF file to MP3, but other than that it's not doing anything (except me typing this). Current CPU temp: 74C (169F). The fans are on, yes, but barely noticeable, and that's because they are cooling the machine from the AIFF->MP3 conversion from a few minutes ago. [/QUOTE]
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