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| Thread ID: 81863 | 2007-08-09 07:18:00 | Efficient Cooling of your PC. | Bozo (8540) | Press F1 |
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| 578640 | 2007-08-10 01:45:00 | The best way to ensure effective cooling is to maximise the flow of air through your case. Having 7 fans is just down right crazy... imagine the noise. I have the following in my case... 1 x 12cm Vantec Iceberg, front mounted blowing air into the case over the hard drives. 1 x Thermaltake 8cm fan side mounted blowing air into the case over the RAM and CPU. 1 x crappy 8cm DSE rainbow LED fan rear mounted extracting air out of the case. I then have the 2 fans on my Thermaltake 430W PSU extracting air out of the case as well. I play CS:S, Half-life 2 and CoD 2, my temps for the case rarely go over 30 and the CPU rarely goes over 45 after a few hours of constant game play. Other factors are fan types etc, I've got an Arctic Cooling ATi Silencer on the X800XT which is pretty damn good cooling wise and a Zalman 12cm Copper heat sink and fan on the Prescott. The cabling work is pretty tidy in the case and as a result there isn't much interference for the air flow from front to back of the case. Cheers |
chiefnz (545) | ||
| 578641 | 2007-08-10 05:10:00 | The best way to ensure effective cooling is to maximise the flow of air through your case. Having 7 fans is just down right crazy... imagine the noise. not at all noisy, i have a fan speed controller and have all the fans turned down. Having multiple fans running at 1/3 speed is a lot quieter than fewer fans running at full speed. Plus, when i start my overclocking (usually just before i render a large movie or somthing) i can hugely increase the airflow inside my case, and not run the risk of overheating. My pc runs as quiet or quieter than most pc's. Just a quiet mummer in the background. :rolleyes: |
Bozo (8540) | ||
| 578642 | 2007-08-10 05:45:00 | One dilemma I've just had is whether to put two hard drives together, one directly over the other, or whether to mount them with a hard drive-sized gap between them for better airflow and to ensure they don't cook each other.......... Have I done the right thing or doesn't it really matter if the drives are directly on top of one another?you have done well ;) Though I wouldn't mind seeing the difference in temps between HDDs with a gap and HDDs with no gap... I might test that over the week end if I can be bothered and am not busy gaming :p the difference is huge. i've had someone put a 2nd harddrive in against another HD (2x3.5" bay so no more room). you could cook you dinner on the HD's. i used adaptors and fitted one of them in a spare 5" bay. both drives now run cold. It has always amased me that the the "standard" way of cooling a pc was blowing air through the PSU and into the case A far better way. imho, would be to push cool filtered air into the case so that you would never get a build up of dust, which IS the cause of most overheating problems. ??? i havn't seen a pc that cools the PSU first for a very long time. some of the p1's where like that. also some techs used to reverse the PSU fan to stop the PSU's from overheating and blowing up on a weekly basis. otherwise air going into case over motherboard before going through PSU and out, has been standard for many many years. |
tweak'e (69) | ||
| 578643 | 2007-08-10 05:55:00 | the difference is huge. i've had someone put a 2nd harddrive in against another HD (2x3.5" bay so no more room). you could cook you dinner on the HD's. i used adaptors and fitted one of them in a spare 5" bay. both drives now run cold. True, but did they have a fan infront of them? What I would like to see is the difference in temp when you have a fan infront of them... |
The_End_Of_Reality (334) | ||
| 578644 | 2007-08-10 06:26:00 | no fan infront, typical HD layout. even if its one of the cases where the HD's are mounted straight behind front fan location i still would expect the HD temps to go up when the HD's are together. the top/bottom plates of the HD act as heasinks, also the mounting brackets act as heatsinks, so you need airflow around them. |
tweak'e (69) | ||
| 578645 | 2007-08-10 08:33:00 | Just a thought on the TJo6 Slomeister, can you route the cables behind the base plates, or would one have to drill some holes to achieve that. I'm a bg fan of eliminating cable clutter wherever possible, it not only increases airflow efficiency but also cuts down on noise and, in that folks, every little bit helps. | Murray P (44) | ||
| 578646 | 2007-08-10 09:49:00 | Just my two cents worth. I wou;d say the main cause of overheating is overclocking. Closely followed by people buying pretty cases that are designed for looks, without any thought given to cooling. I have a Lian Li case with a 120 mm fan sucking through the front panel and another 120 at the back blowing out. It has internal deflectors that steer th cool air over the cpu, the hard drives and the ram. There is the usual fan on the vid card and psu. My temp on psu has never risen above the 40's. The vid card never rises out of the 60's. The front fan has a secondry use too. It sucks all the cigarette smoke in and blows it out the back so I breath clean air. My cpu is an extreme x6800 with the stock standard MS heat sink and I have been watching the temp very closely. |
JJJJJ (528) | ||
| 578647 | 2007-08-10 10:02:00 | I wou;d say the main cause of overheating is overclocking. Closely followed by people buying pretty cases that are designed for looks, without any thought given to cooling. I disagree, sure OCing raises temps, but that is what aftermarket coolers are for... and if not performed by N00Bs is fine... And also my CPU is OCed in the high end of the 4400s and that is still on the stock cooler with an extra 0.25V core and the temps are never above 50°C... go figure... |
The_End_Of_Reality (334) | ||
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