Systems & High Ambient Temperatures?

Background:
For the forseable future I'm going to be living in the midwest USA without air conditioning. This has proved a problem in the past over the summer as the ambient temperature of my computer room can reach 95 F (~35 C, and usually about 50%-90% humidity) for weeks on end during June, July, and August without anything running except the overhead fan. With the lights turned on and all my computers running the temp can reach 100 F (37 C) without too much difficulty.

This has caused system problems for me in the past, due to different components depending on which system is running. I'm planning on buying (not building, I don't have the time or patience this time around) a new desktop in the next few months and I have questions about stability issues in rooms with such high temps. FYI I don't plan on overclocking this computer in any way.


1) AMD or Intel in this situation? I'm looking in the 1.5 ghz range probably (1.4ghz for Athlon, or maybe 1.6 when one comes out). As an aside I'm usually an AMD fan, but I've heard that Intel processors run more stable at high ambient temps. Any truth to that?

2) Other components?: I was also wondering about the stability of other components at high ambient temperature, most notably RAM (DDR and RDRAM stability) and the high temperature stability of the Geforce3. Mention of other components that you might know of that have problems with heat would be much appreciated.


Thanks in advance

<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by vitus9797 on 07/07/01 01:20 PM.</EM></FONT></P>