Re: water cooling v. fan\heatsink

On Aug 2, 5:20 am, Phisherman <no...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Water cooling is expensive and a good choice when you need a super
quiet PC. Adding 120mm fans and slowing them down a little will
provide an inexpensive alternative. Think about improving the airflow
inside your PC (tidy wiring, removing dust, adding air vents, etc).
For a few days when the room is warm use a table fan blowing directly
onto the PC.

All good tips. I regularly blow the dust out of my computer. A new
case is also a good idea. However, I just spent all my allocated puter
funds on a new mobo, CPU, vid card - so the new case will have to
wait. :P

I wanted to mod my current case by installing another fan on top,
since it appears I have plenty of air coming in, but not enough
exhaust. However, when I discovered buying a power drill and jig to
cut a hole in the case would cost $65 (not to mention removing and
reinstalling the hardware), I could buy a new case for that much.

After posting the question about different fan/heatsinks I figured I
could find out for myself by doing a bit of research. One site I
visited was:http://www.dansdata.com/coolercomp.htm

From there I found out the differences between different brands of fan/
heatsinks isn't really that much and the ones that cool the most are
the heaviest, which makes sense since a heavier heatsink and larger
fan are going to cool more air. But more weight is going to tend to
compromise the integrity of the CPU and the best cooler's weights were
significantly over the 450g max weight recommended by AMD. It appears
it's a situation of damned if you do and damned if you don't. I'm not
inclined to rip my brand new CPU out of the new mobo. In the end, a
stock fan/heatsink is going to do just about a good a job as an after-
market.

As for opening the case and using a table fan, I tried that and the
temps were lower with the case closed. So I guess my case is doing
what is was designed to do: protect and cool the components.
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Biostar GeForce 6100-M9 939
AMD 4200+ 2.2G X2
EVGA nVidia 7600GT 256MB PCI-e
2 gigs Kingston RAM
450W PSU


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