Cooling this thing...

[ALBPM]

Well, Steve got me going and I finally made some modifications to my new case. With the case closed the temp would get up to 118 degF with the overclocking that I am doing.


First I replaced the 80mm exhaust fan with a pair of Radio Shack Blowers. These things move an incredible amount of air.


Then, I added a nice 92mm Sunon fan to the home made card cooler that I already had for the graphics cards. This one blows cool air right on the processor and across the top of the G400.


Ok, with the blowers and extra 92mm fan the temp dropped to around 99 degF with the side cover on, not quite good enough...Heheheh
So, out comes the Drill and the Electric Jigsaw. I cut a hole in the side and finished it off with a car speaker grill. I then lined the inside of the speaker grill with the thin foam air conditioner filter material to keep the dust out.
The final result is a case temp around 84 degF or about 29 degC.

Paul


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P3-558(124x4.5), ABIT BX6 r2, 256MB PC100, MILL G400-32MB on BNC, Quantum3D Obsidian2 X-24 on D-sub, 21"Trinitron, SCSI CDR/RW, SCSI ZIP,SB Live!Value,USR Voice Faxmodem Pro(USB Ext) WN98
and a (Very Messy Desk) ;-P

[rickT]

I have a celery 366@550, 128mb HSDRAM, 18GB 7200rpm WD Expert drive, 4x4x16x Yamaha CDRW, 32MB G400 at 150/200, network, sb live value, fireport scsi card, 48x cdrom, P2B-F. Case temp is 29C, cpu heatsink temp is 41C

[StevieC]

Well I haven't got that good a heatsink/fan on my CPU and when running a 333 @ 515 it gets pretty hot. Also, this is helping my hard drives a little by having some proper air flow round them.
And a G400 @ MAX speeds gets pretty warm too - I like things cool to the touch.

My CPU temp is 46C or 115F which is still too high for me. I may get a huge passive heatsink now because of the air flow I have. My ambient temp is 32C or 89F which is a little too high for my liking too.

anid - I have covered them up with tape.
I'm in two minds about the blanking plates at the back cos I have now air blowing across the cards and out the back. I'm thinking that that is useful.

Why don't I just buy a supermicro case - they're lovely!

Cheers,

Steve