Hi,
Just in case anyone was following my little saga here, I set up my case
and motherboard in the following fashion and it seems to be cooling very
well:
.-------------------------------------------------------.
| .--.| <- CASE
|.--. .-------.---------.-------------. |F ||
||F | | .--|--. F .--|--. | |A ||
||A | | |CPU 0| A |CPU 1| | |N ||
||N | | | | | N | | | | |->||
||<-| | `--|--' `--|--' | `--'|
|`--' | `---------' | |
| | .>.------. | |
| | HEATSINK| |.----.| | |
| | + ---+ || BX || | |
| | FAN | |`----'| | |
| | `>`------' | |
| | | |
| |------ --- -- AGP | |
| | | |
| |------ --- PCI | |
| |------ --- PCI | |
| |------ --- PCI | |
| |------ --- PCI | |
| |-------- ---- ISA | |
| |-------- ---- ISA | |
| | | |
| `-------------------------------' |
`-------------------------------------------------------'
I placed a rather large fan on top of CPU0 and CPU1 so that each CPU gets
1/2 of the fan. The fan mounted on the back of the case sucks air out, as
well as the fan mounted on the front of the case. I took the stock
green heatsink off and replaced it with a heatsink+fan from an old AMD
PR133. The heatsink+fan combo is held on the BX controller with some
thermal paste.
I left the machine going all last night running two SETI@HOME clients,
about 14 hours total. When I came back, turned the monitor on, I was
pleasantly surpised to see no lockups. I shut down the box and rebooted.
I went into the BIOS and saw that all critical parts of the board where
under 100F! The motherboard was 93F, and both CPUs were 96F. Not
bad, considering before this I was running 105F CPUs and 98F motherboard.
So, I'll keep running these SETI clients for another few days and see if
we get any lockups that are the result of heat. Sometimes my box just
locks solid because of wackyness in 2.3.18ac10. Shrug.
Ian Ehrenwald
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