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| 206659 | 2004-01-11 05:39:00 | My mainboard gets pretty hot, on hot days, what a coincidence ;) I have been putting an ice-pack against the case where the mainboard is situated. Do you think that after a while, the mainboard will cool down a little bit? or is this totally useless? Cheers, |
Scattershot06 (4844) | ||
| 206660 | 2004-01-11 06:15:00 | Using icepacks brings new meaning to a water-cooled system :D How hot is hot? Has you system become unstable because of the heat issues? Try taking the side of the case off and see whether that drops the temperatures down. If it does, then you might want to look at installing an additional fan and perhaps tidy up some of the cables to improve air-flow. Does your case sit flat on the carpet? This could impede the front case fan intake if it is located underneath the front edge of the PC, so try raising the case off the floor a bit. However, the ambient temperature in the room will have an affect on your case temperatures - the hotter the room is, the hotter the motherboard/CPU will get. |
Jen C (20) | ||
| 206661 | 2004-01-11 07:35:00 | The icepack may cause condensation INSIDE the case, next to the mainboard, and the moisture may damage components. I would suggest the use of additional case fans instead, to keep the motherboard cooler. Also checking fans/heatsinks on the CPU, chipset etc. may help also. | somebody (208) | ||
| 206662 | 2004-01-11 07:54:00 | If you have plenty of devices in your PC, it might pay to check on the wiring inside. I found that by making sure the wiring was all tidied up, I managed to reduce the heat inside my case by about 6deg Celsius. Lo. |
Lohsing (219) | ||
| 206663 | 2004-01-11 08:27:00 | If you want a cheap and nasty way, i bout a little electric fan and put it pointing into my vents - did the trick tho the noise can pi$$ u off... | taxboy4 (579) | ||
| 206664 | 2004-01-11 08:32:00 | >Try taking the side of the case off and see whether that drops the temperatures down. I think that you would find that this would increase the internal temperature as the designed case airflow would be destroyed. |
JohnD (509) | ||
| 206665 | 2004-01-11 08:33:00 | LOL... I was thinking of dragging home one of the company's small air con units and pointing the cooling directly at the air intake... Lo. |
Lohsing (219) | ||
| 206666 | 2004-01-11 08:36:00 | old pc? try opening the case and giving the power supply fan a blast of compressed air as dust doesnt do any favours to the cooling system. also try getting some rounded ide cables the flat ribbon ones do block airflow and no putting the computer in the fridge wont work ;) |
Megaman (344) | ||
| 206667 | 2004-01-11 08:38:00 | What's this "cheap and nasty" bit? A case fan costs $8.00 from Dick Smiths! | JohnD (509) | ||
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