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Cooking my PC: what NOT to do
nosh:
Oh, man, the Duron made a hole in the table :o
-Lashiec (February 19, 2008, 09:03 AM)
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Ouch!
Update: Took the good doctor's advice and got me a new cabinet - a big suction fan in the front, right in front of the HDDs which are a good 2 inches apart. Two suction fans at the side- a big one pitching right at the CPU, a smaller one at the gfx card. A bigger exhaust at the rear, in addition to the regular sized one that came with the cabinet. Took my old cabinet's exhaust and attached it to the gfx card - way easier than I'd expected. So totally I have uh... six fans, seven counting the PSU. :'(
Right, the HDDs are sitting at 35°, the GPU is at 38° ( :-*) & the Prescott... well, it's hovering between 80 & 90 - blame Intel, not me! Will check out the videos later, now that it's something that happens to other people and (hopefully) not me, I may even see the humor in it.
PS: All three large fans at the front, side & rear have this eerie neon blue light, so now when the lights are turned out my bedroom looks really shady - or really cool - depending on who you are.
f0dder:
Holy moley, that's a lot of airflow! But ugh, still 80-90C? Those CPUs are insanely hot... or perhaps you should get a better heatsink for it, something *big*, with decently applied thermal paste.
Lashiec:
This one will suffice ;D
Or a Thermalright Ultra 120, that would definitely bring those temps down.
Carol Haynes:
Wow - but do you need a house sized case for that? And does the weight bend your mobo?
Lashiec:
Disclaimer: It's not the cooler I use, just some crazy device someone spotted in another forum. We haven't decided if that could bend the motherboard or not :)
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