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Entertainment Center Cooling?
skubalon asks: "I have a decent bit of audio equipment for my home theatre. All of it is housed within a wooden entertainment center with a glass door. This doesn't do much for keeping my system cool. I have tested and found that the ambient temperature in the cabinet does not go higher than 100F (37.7C). I know that my receiver has a thermal shutoff, but is this safe? What have other readers done about cooling home audio equipment?"
Use a 48U rack with a cooling fan setup in it.
You'll still have your glass door, comfortable tempatures, and it'll be a GREAT conversation piece.
Immerse it in mineral oil!
;)
It will stay cool *and* you can get a second story onto slashdot when you do it!
*everything* is Orwellian to cats.
It can be hard to know what to do with all those components these days. Now that you've overclocked your graphic equalizer, CD player, and DVD player, how do you keep them cool?
How about a nice big refrigerator? You ought to be able to get an old one for cheap. If you're handy with tools, you can cut a hole in the fridge and make a plexiglass window (Otherwise, watch the overclocker hardware sites, as they'll undoubtedly start selling pre-modded fridges). That way, you can keep your TV cool too. Throw a few colored lights in there, and you've got quite a geek setup. As a bonus, you can keep a few beers cold and within easy reach.
Donate background CPU time to fight cancer.
Hell, I have a bigger problem with drunken friends tripping into it then children playing.
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I was pushed!!!