cpu & case cooling

[Tony]

I recently had a problem w/heat in my old case.
I have a p4 2.4 and a geforce 6800.
I'd get frequent lockups and heat alarms.
So, I solved it with a new case with a fan in the back exhausting,
one in the front blowing in and one in the side blowing at the cpu
& chipset. No more lockups but the fans are slow & quiet & don't seem to
move much air. I also have a kick ass but noisy fan I wanted to replace
one of the stock fans with. Where would I get the most bennefit from
this higher volume fan? Pulling out warm case air or bringing in room
air?

Also, what is a good temp range for this cpu w/o overclocking?
I watched the temp while running quake3 demos, seti@home
& SiSoft sandra cpu benchmark While downloading shit too.
Cpu (as reported by asusprobe) never went over 46°c.


Thx.

 

[Dave C.]

I recently had a problem w/heat in my old case.
I have a p4 2.4 and a geforce 6800.
I'd get frequent lockups and heat alarms.
So, I solved it with a new case with a fan in the back exhausting,
one in the front blowing in and one in the side blowing at the cpu
& chipset. No more lockups but the fans are slow & quiet & don't seem to
move much air. I also have a kick ass but noisy fan I wanted to replace
one of the stock fans with. Where would I get the most bennefit from
this higher volume fan? Pulling out warm case air or bringing in room
air?

Also, what is a good temp range for this cpu w/o overclocking?
I watched the temp while running quake3 demos, seti@home
& SiSoft sandra cpu benchmark While downloading shit too.
Cpu (as reported by asusprobe) never went over 46°c.


Thx.

You will get the most benefit from balanced airflow. That is, you want
number and rated cfm of fans IN to match those of your OUT fans. Right now,
it seems you are perfectly balanced (your PSU fan counts as an OUT fan).
Your CPU temp is fine. You don't want it to go much higher than about 55c
under load. 46c sounds great. I wouldn't change a thing. -Dave

 

[Mac Cool]

Tony:

I also have a kick ass but noisy fan I wanted to replace
one of the stock fans with. Where would I get the most bennefit from
this higher volume fan?

In your old case.

 

[Justin Case]

Tony:


In your old case.

The old case is small & crowded.
It doesn't have the ventilation of the newer cases.

 

[Matt]

The old case is small & crowded.
It doesn't have the ventilation of the newer cases.

Cut a hole in the lower front.

 

[Andy]

Cut a hole in the lower front.

I would second that, old twin CPU server in a small midi case I had stuffed
full, 4 drives, every PCI slot used etc with the CPUs running at about 45c
as standard on 100% loading

Cut a hole lower front and put a 12v 120mm Pabst fan in there. Temps
dropped to 30c (only 6c above ambient)

The case was a complete mess with wires everywhere but forcing that air in
the front worked wonders system carried on for another 2 years before
it got upgraded.

Andy