| Post ID |
Timestamp |
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| 213733 |
2004-02-08 07:26:00 |
Tis the time of the year for queries about overheating. The following may be of interest. Just had a look at a friends PC Company Tower unit mounted on a 20cm high plinth above carpet in a bedroom. It has an extra fan for cooling. All the air intakes around the base were clear but halfway up the back of the unit a grille of holes were covered in a thin layer of carpet fibres with a few dog and cat hairs thrown in for good luck. The grille is presumably used as the extra fan intake. Personally prefer to put the unit at Desktop height and not in a bedroom with the air getting a daily recharge of bedding fibres. |
FrankS (257) |
| 213734 |
2004-02-08 08:28:00 |
if its a circular grille then it will be an air outlet and yes they do get covered in crap. also check the grill in the front, you need to take the cover off it to check. |
tweak'e (174) |
| 213735 |
2004-02-09 07:51:00 |
Beg to disagree, mat was on the outside and if you any knowledge of filtration, crap always collects on the upstream side of the flow plus cold air is drawn in at the bottom and expelled at the top either by natural convection or by fan. Therefore the intake at the bottom will have crap on the outside and the exhaust at the top will have crap inside.
The point I was making that it pays to check the cooling intakes and exhaust at the back of the unit which only to often are out of sight and out of mind. |
FrankS (257) |
| 213736 |
2004-02-09 09:15:00 |
The holes may have been acting as an intake but the fan that gets mounted in that position expells air. |
metla (154) |
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