You don't need liquid nitrogen or water <G>. Get a decent case fan - good quality bearings and motor and install it first. You definitely need a case fan. Also rearrange your cables so they don't block airflow. Then see what happens.
On Thursday 25 September 2003 19:10, you wrote: > thanks everybody for all your quick and useful answers ;-) > (as always on the gentoo forum. that's (another) reason why I'm fond of > gentoo). > I've seen pictures of water-cooled boxes and that sort of things. I'just > want to have a quiet and normal heated PC. No need to do supra-conduction > at 3�K. When I talk about "wrong-sided" fan, I meant the cpu cooler. I've > turned it around. But the temp is still the same (67�C now). > My case is an enermax and it's true that I've a lot of IDE cables around. > So what do I do now? My main goal is to have a quiet PC. My TV is in the > same room. I want to be able to hear tv while make modules-ing, make > bzImage-ing and emerge world-ing. > I don't have any case fan and after all your answers I guess that the first > thing I should do is buy one and use it to pull air inside. > > thanks again for everything > > > Brett is absolutely right. It can't be too cool inside your case. > > But, there is the law of diminishing returns. At some point, the air > > inside your box gets so close in temperature to the ambient that more > > fans becomes a waste of money and power supply wattage. In my Athlon > > XP 2100+ box, the inside air temp stays at about 10 degrees C above > > ambient and the processor about 5 degrees C above that. > > Currently, CPU temp is 36 C inside air is 32 C and ambient is 23 C. I > > have 2 generic fans at the front of the box sucking air in and one at > > the rear blowing out. The CPU heatsink and fan are the basic AMD > > approved units that came with the processor. ($8 retail)The 450 Watt > > PSU is a dual fan unit that sucks air in from within the case and > > blows it out at the top rear. > > The dead spots that Brett mention can be the fault of a poorly > > designed case or, more commonly cables and other "stuff" obstructing > > air flow. The biggest culprits are the IDE cables. If not positioned > > properly they can cut air flow to the point where you can have 20 > > degree differences in temps in various spots within the case. The > > best bet is to buy the round jacketed cables, but these can severely > > destroy a budget. I tend to tuck extra length of my IDE cables into > > unused drive bays and rout them in places where they won't block air > > flow I hope this helps you some what. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
