Open your case up and maybe put the miner in the garage if you have one, or build a cover and let it mine outside.
Sadly, I'm in a small apartment right now. The lease is up in October, so when that happens I'll see about getting a place with a "server room". Letting it mine outside is also not a good idea because the weather in Alaska is crazy. Sunny to 80MPH winds and snow/rain after 20 minutes isn't surprising, even around this time of year.
You're getting 2 7970s inside a case to run at 1180 and you're complaining?
I didn't realize 1180 was so good, even with the temps. My main reason for complaining is that under-clocking the memory, even to less than 10% of the stock clock, does absolutely nothing for the power usage and temperature. It's very frustrating, and I'm sure that other 7970s don't do this, while still getting the same hash rates.
Yes 7950s are a viable choice. Here in europe I compared the price and you getting excactly the same hashrate for your buck than with the 7970s.
At a first glance, it looks like the money/hash rate ratio is about the same, but I'd prefer higher hash rates regardless of price. More hash rate per cards means less machines, which means less money goes into cases, CPUs, RAM, PSU, Motherboard, and shipping and more goes into GPUs. The idea is viable, I'm just very persnickety and like to take things to the extreme.
