I'm having a cooling nightmare. I built a B737 cockpit in a 8ft x 11ft room in my garage. It consists of four computers, five 42" lcd screens, three 24" lcd screens & two 12" lcd screens. The room is cooled by an old 12,000btu air conditioner window unit cut into the outside brick wall. It was keeping things cool until I upgraded two of the computers. I put an RTX 3080 gpu in one and more recently an RTX 3090TI which is putting out a lot of heat. Both these computers have a two fan liquid cpu cooler with the 120mm fans venting out the front of the case. Only one 120mm fan is bringing air in at the front bottom of the case. There are two 120mm exhaust fans on the top and one in back. I don't know of any better way to arrange these fans where they will be more efficient.
I finally had to open the side of these two cases and put a fan blowing into them. But another problem is that the temperature in the cockpit room rises from 70f to over 80f in an hour or so. I don't let it get much hotter without shutting everything off so it won't damage the computers. I'm wondering if installing maybe an 18,000btu A/C would be able to keep up but I can't afford to do that right now. I'm sure others have had heat problems with the 3080 series gpus and I'm wondering are there any good solutions.
Jerry
I finally had to open the side of these two cases and put a fan blowing into them. But another problem is that the temperature in the cockpit room rises from 70f to over 80f in an hour or so. I don't let it get much hotter without shutting everything off so it won't damage the computers. I'm wondering if installing maybe an 18,000btu A/C would be able to keep up but I can't afford to do that right now. I'm sure others have had heat problems with the 3080 series gpus and I'm wondering are there any good solutions.
Jerry