Olaf, Quite correct- the chassis temp can't be lower than the air temps. However, in my case, I have a duct leading outside air directly to the cpu fan, plus two 80mm case fans blowing outside air in, and I removed the top 5.25" bay plastic cover to serve as an exhaust hole. Works great. Since 24C.=75F., my inside case temps and the air blowing onto the cpu is always room temperature (always around 73-75F.). My sensors have always been very accurate, windows or linux. In my opinion, people generally don't pay enough attention to their case air-flow, and it makes a significant difference in the cpu temps also. When I put in my little duct hole and home-made cardboard passage to the cpu fan, my cpu temps dropped 8-9C. After I added the fans and removed the plastic bay cover, my chassis temps never rise more than 2-3C. above room temperature, if that. Robert C.
On Sunday 27 October 2002 03:36 pm, Olaf Marzocchi wrote: > The chassis temp. cannot be lower than air temperature: if you get 23-24 > even when outside the air is at 28, you have problems with the sensors! > It's obvious. > > Olaf > > At 19.07 27/10/2002, you wrote: > >40.8C. cpu temp is reasonable, but on my KT133 I've found anything over > >45-46C. tends to give me random weird problems. I run about 39-41C. > > average. If your "average" cpu temps are running over 45C., I would be > > suspicious. Also, even though 37C. seems like it's low for sys temps, I > > would think you have a case air flow problem, as my KT133 never gets > > above 23-24C., even on hot days. The 37C. case air would add at least > > 10-12C. to any card or ram, which might be a concern, especially on a > > video card that ran hot anyway. Of course, the problems may not be heat > > related at all, but it does sound like a good bet, considering what you > > have said, and the fact that they seem random. > > <olaf@ kjws.com> for every kind of mail, except spam! :-)
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