Finally, after 3 days of waiting my brand new graphics adapter arrives from Newegg! I wasted no time in saying “see ya later” to the girls and installing it in my most ü ber computer. Holy shit this is a nice card! It’s got 640 megs of GDDR3 Ram @ 320 bit, Directx10, 2560x1600 resolution, and SLI ready. I’ve got nude girls on one monitor and playing Conan on the other! That’s when I began to notice something… This card run hot… I mean really hot.
My main system is a liquid cooled quad core. It has never run hotter than 81 degrees F. But with this new graphics card my computer is running at 89! I could actually feel the room getting hotter by the minute. After about an hour, the computer and the ambient air in the room were exactly the same temperature. I had to strip down just to work! Finally I got pissed and shut the computer down. A couple of the girls noticed I was a little less social than usual and asked me if anything was wrong. I just told them I was having computer problems.
What fucking asshole makes a video card that runs so hot that its capable of heating up an entire room to 89 degrees! I mean usually with the liquid cooling system, the computer runs about 4 degrees hotter than the room; I set the thermostat for 76 or 77 which is comfortable to me, and the computer runs at 80 to 81. Not this time, the computer was making the water in my cooling system so hot, the 3 fans on the radiator were acting like a mini heat pump into my room. Now I hate this fucking shitty ass card and cant wait to return it! I eventually went to bed to escape the heat.
This morning, I decided id give it one more chance to piss me off. I got online and was immediately greeted by MissyLou who asked if I was in a better mood. I honestly didn’t realize how tuned to my mood some girls are, but within a few more minutes, I was being asked the same question by Kimber. My room was still a little warm from the night before, but it was bearable so I got to work.
After about an hour the heat began to rise again! Fuck this shit, I quit! I’m uninstalling this shitty card and returning it today. To combat the heat, I decided to turn down the air conditioning. So I walked down the hall to the thermostat that controls my room and as I was about to set it for 60 degrees in anger, I noticed that it was reading that the ambient temperature was 82 and rising!
Now I know a high end graphics card might make my room warm, but the whole damn top floor! Something is definitely wrong. I put my hand up near the AC inlet and it was blowing warm air. WTF?
I went outside and discovered that the problem was not my video card at all. As is turns out, heavy rains that came up through Tennessee with the recent hurricanes caused a mini mud slide and took out a small retaining wall that protected one of my outdoor AC units! It was pushed over to the side and full of mud. Ok, that makes more sense. Since my liquid cooled computer uses ambient air to cool, it can never get colder than the room. So basically the room was heating the computer, instead of the other way around.
I came back upstairs, and once again said “see ya later” to the hens in the henhouse, grabbed my shovel and started digging. It took me seven hours to dig my AC unit out. Now as I sit here in my newly un-air conditioned office with the windows open listen to the crickets chirping watching undocked videos on one monitor and blogging on the other, I’m thinking… Man this video card rocks!