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Anyone have thoughts on the Fit PC Slim vs Ebox on quality and Operating Temps?

I'm looking into running one of these in a remote situation but where ambient temps (just a few months out of the year) could easily get to 100F but I would probably have a fan blowing across the case.... I've heard the Fit can get pretty hot so I've started leaning toward the Ebox....

Any thoughts on either....

Thanks!

AAMFlyer wrote:Anyone have thoughts on the Fit PC Slim vs Ebox on quality and Operating Temps?

Strange, I'm sure I posted a reply to this topic yesterday!
In short, I can only speak for the Fit PC Slim and my ambients are more like 20-25C, but even though mine had a HDD it only runs 'warm' rather than anything I'd call 'hot'. Presumably an SSD would run cooler.

If you look on the Fit-PC Forum it is said to have been tested in ambients of up to 85C!
If you use the search that Forum for "ambient" you'll find several messages that might make for interesting reading.

PS.
Not that I've tried this since oveheating is not an issue for me, but it occurs to me that if overheating did become an issue, one approach might be to attach a CPU heatsink (either active or passive) to the PC case!

Just a thought...

With the PC stood on its edge (as I have mine) there is even scope for two - though if it was getting hot enough to need that I suspect there would either be some other problem or the ambient would be so great that something like liquid cooling and an external radiator might be needed, which is probably heading towards the unrealistic...

That's a great idea... I was thinking of having a 120mm case fan (I have one that only draws .08 amps as this is a solar station) blowing across the case to just draw off the heat on the case a little more....but I also like the heat sink idea too....

I wonder how I would actually attach it....I'd need a conductive glue or maybe just screw it in somehow...?

AAMFlyer wrote:I wonder how I would actually attach it....I'd need a conductive glue or maybe just screw it in somehow...?

The Fit-PC Slim case is aluminium (or some alloy?).
I suspect that the sort of highly conductive thermal paste/glue that is designed for attaching heatsinks would be a good way to go?

Yep - I found some thermal epoxy's a few online computer places.... So it's definitely a product that is regularly availalbe and made by arctic silver...pretty cool stuff!

Thanks for the ideas!