On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 01:25:15 -0000 Too Much Ying and you will Pay With
Yang then
no@spam.invalid (andymion) sent this :
>Hey there, first time poster here.
>
>The other night, I noticed after a reboot that my CPU temperature was
>running in the upper 60s, where it was normally mid-30s. I was already
>concerned about not having enough cooling in my computer and planning
>to get more, so that was the straw that broke the camel's back.
>
>Yesterday, I installed two additional 80mm case fans, on the lowest
>spots of the front panel, as well as cleaned out the heat-sink on my
>CPU, which had grown quite dusty.
>
>The temperature is now normal again, but I'm left with a thought I
>just can't put to rest: are my case fans set up optimally?
>
>There are five fans total in my computer: P/S, CPU, and 3 80mm case
>fans.
>
>At present, they are set up like this:
>
>-The two new fans are on the bottom of the front panel (as stated
>before), and are intaking.
>-The old 80mm case fan is in the center of the access panel, also set
>to intake.
>-P/S and CPU fans are set up as normal.
>
>Specifically, I'm concerned about the old 80mm case fan. I changed it
>to intake yesterday, thinking that it would be better to pull in more
>air, but now I'm not so sure. I have no fans on the back of my case,
>save for the P/S fan (only exhaust fan on the computer). I have holes
>for exhaust, but nowhere to install another case fan of any sort for
>another exhaust, yet I can install two more on the front panel (for a
>total of four on the front). This confuses me more, since I don't
>really see how they could be too effective in drawing in more air with
>that plastic panel right behind them.
>
>Is this the best possible setup I could have with what I have already?
>I do plan to add more cooling when I do my next hardware upgrade (a
>video card... this radeon 9600 is struggling way too hard with the
>games I try to play on it nowadays :D), but I can only work with what
>I have for now.
>
>Any thoughts or suggestions for how I could get the most out of my
>cooling, and what I should plan for in the future? (rig profile in
>signature)
I'd suspect a badly installed CPU.I only ever run a cooler fan and one
back exhaust fan even when I've over clocked systems.Ambient room
temperature and airflow to the case are important too of course.
HTH :)
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