Originally Posted by Ember - PG Music
Woof, 100F! Yah, that's definitely pretty toasty. It's possible you were unlucky both times, but also tech is always improving so could be a number of factors for sure! I am sure some brands or models are simply made with sturdier stuff too.
Indeed. I don't entirely blame the products for failing at that, though they probably should be built to stand 40C. But I've also designed stuff for environments where "they all have A/C, so it never gets above 25C", and understand how they can say "we'll get away with that".

At this moment the room is around 27C and the various computers show around 50C core temperatures. It typically isn't the cores that fail, though, it's more often the electrolytic capacitors in the supply lines.


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