Cool(er) Running
Michael Cash
of a do-it-yerself computer is that you never get done monkeying with
the innards.
When I first built it, I started with an aftermarket heatsink/fan from
A-One. It *looked* impressive, but it sucked. Under my normal usage
patterns the CPU ran at about 49 degrees. When I noticed what a wienie
of a fan it had on it, I removed it and installed the standard
equipment heatsink/fan that Pentium included with the CPU. That
brought things down considerably. It ran between 44 and 46 degrees.
This evening I swapped that one out for yet another one:
http://www.zalman.co.kr/english/product/cnps7000a-alcu.htm
This one, so far, is running from 40 to 41 degrees. Switching from el
cheapo 10 yen silicone thermal grease to Arctic Silver III may have
helped a bit.
While I was at it, I also installed a cooler on one of my hard drives.
I relocated the other one so it catches a direct flow off the case fan
in the front, so it can go without.
A few weeks ago I added to the rear of the case an 80mm intake fan
with a piece of attached flexible ducting to allow me to direct
airflow straight into the CPU fan. The fan was 80mm and the ducting
was 60mm. Unfortunately, the reduction adapter was so poorly designed
that it resulted in practically zero air coming out the other end of
the duct. Everything got lost to back pressure.
I replaced the reduction adapter with one that would solve that
problem, moved the 31cfm fan that was on it to a different location
and made it a simple intake fan, and put a 53cfm fan on the duct
thingy.
Works great....and sounds like a fucking jet spooling up its engines
prior to takeoff. Even in the next room the noise is beyond being
bearable. That fan has been unplugged until we get into hot weather
again.
mr.sumo.snr
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>
> Works great....and sounds like a fucking jet spooling up its engines
> prior to takeoff. Even in the next room the noise is beyond being
> bearable. That fan has been unplugged until we get into hot weather
> again.
>
I brought the mountain to Mohamed and installed central air-conditioning
instead.
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jonathan
Drew Hamilton
>This one, so far, is running from 40 to 41 degrees. Switching from el
>cheapo 10 yen silicone thermal grease to Arctic Silver III may have
>helped a bit.
This reminds me of a web page I once came across:
http://www.dansdata.com/goop.htm
Basically it was a test of several kinds of thermal grease as well
as toothpaste and vegemite. The toothpaste and vegemite both did
pretty well.
- awh
Michael Cash
belched the alphabet and kept on going with:
Finally! A use for vegemite.
The 2-Belo
Heh. Until said vegemite starts to cook on the heat sink, giving you the Mother
of All Stinking Computers, and a workroom that smells like the inside front
panel of Roseanne Barr's birth canal.
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Brett Robson
The smell of warm vegemite would make me hungry.
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"No country hides itself behind the paper screen of cultural elitism like Japan,
which, considering they've bought their entire civilisation from other people's
hand-me-downs, is a bit of a liberty."
Brett Robson
>
>I am starting to discover that one of the advantages (and drawbacks)
>of a do-it-yerself computer is that you never get done monkeying with
>the innards.
>
>When I first built it, I started with an aftermarket heatsink/fan from
>A-One. It *looked* impressive, but it sucked. Under my normal usage
>patterns the CPU ran at about 49 degrees.
My CPU runs at around 36 degs and that's not because of fantastic cooling.
You don't have to worry about 49 degs, even in the 50's is OK. Over 70 would be
an issue. However the cooler it is the better.
.
Marc
> Works great....and sounds like a fucking jet spooling up its engines
> prior to takeoff. Even in the next room the noise is beyond being
> bearable. That fan has been unplugged until we get into hot weather
> again.
I have a fan with colored lights that rotate.