Any of you have Summer overclocking pains?

[WarCon]

I use a swamp cooler so my house stays really nice except for a few hours in the evening when the sun is beating on the wall of my computer room. I usually don't do much then anyway as there is too much glare.

I did drop my watercooler back in my rig though and dropped my temps from using an AX-478 with a SFII on high by ~10C (surprised me how big of a difference it was). My pump has been acting up (not starting 100% of the time if I shut it off) so I took the watercooler out, but got a hair up my well you know what and put it back in and ordered me a pump. My new pump should be here Monday........😀, so I can stop worrying about the old one failing.

 

[stardust]

heh...stupid heat..

idle:
cpu: 36
motherboard: 36

load:
cpu:51
motherboard: 40

u know wuts stupid? im running a thermaltake spark 7 and i put it on automatic thermal control...everytime i use maya, photoshop, LAME and when im busy converting textures within seconds i hear my fan reving up...and i jus watch and pray as my temp goes up too..:Q

 

[Boonesmi]

ahh thats why i love AC

it gets hot here in birmingham, AL
but the AC stays at 70 durring the day, and 67 at night 🙂


so my xp1700+ at 2.0ghz is nice and happy 😛

 

[syberscott]

I just modded my Antec tp 480 so that the fans would spin at full speed. It makes a difference in keeping the case cool.

 

[RalfHutter]

I have no AC in here and it's getting pretty toasty so I turned the voltage on my L1A CPU fan up fron 6 volts to 7 volts (via a Zalman Fanmate). That dropped my idle and load temps a few degrees so I have a little more headroom now.