Case Cooling Article?

[jaredm77]

I am trying to find a way to cool down my processor, because it's running at 48 degrees celsius, and I want to overclock my 1.2GHZ processor to 1.33GHZ, but not with it running this hot. I was thinking that maybe my case heat is the culprit, but it's only running between 19 degrees and 22 degrees celsius which I don't think is to bad, but anyway. I have one case fan in the front thats blowing air in, and then one smaller case fan in the back blowing air out. I am going to add a 80mm fan to the side of the case to blow air over the motherboard, or would it be better to have it blowing air out of the case? My heatsink is a Taisol CGK742092 with a Delta 21CFM (stock) fan and aritc silver II applied to it. The resto of my system is as follows:

1.2GHZ T-Bird (9x133) Class "B" Processor
MSI K7T Turbo Motherboard
512MB PC133 CL2 RAM
Toshiba SD-M1502 16x/48x DVD-ROM
Plextor Plexwriter 16/10/40A
Elsa Gladiac Ultra
SB Live! 5.1
IBM Deskstar 75GXP 45GB UDMA100 7200 RPM Hard Drive

and my case is a silver hydraulic case exactly like the ones that Alienware uses. I have a 300W Athlon approved power supply. Any help would be appreciated, because I want this to be as cold as possible, if I need to add fans, ducts, whatever, I'll do it. Thanks.

 

[conlan]

what are the sizes of your current case fans? are you using a HDD cooler? if your gonna go to the trouble of cutting a blow-hole , id suggest at least a 92mm fan blowing in.

 

[jaredm77]

I have one 60mm fan blowing air out and an 80mm fan blowing air in. I'm not using a hard drive cooler.

 

[lapdog]

I have a duron 800 @ 1000. You need some bigger fans I have 2 80mm sunon fans, one inback blowing out and one on side blowing in I then have two more sunon fans but 120mm one up front blowing in and second on top blowing out. my temps are 29-38c. yes this is overkill but thats life and in life it takes all kinds. You also might want to look into a bigger fan for your heatsink as well. Its not quite but it should work,

 

[DeathFlame]

If your case is that cool, then adding more fans ain't gonna help a thing. Air cooling (passive cooling) will not be able to cool your case more than room temperature... I mean moving air doesn't make things colder, it just removes the heat that's there.

The only possible solutions are going to something like water cooling or peltiers, OR by using a better fan on your heatsink or getting a different heatsink.

 

[jsmonet]

I would do these two things:
1.) get a better heat sink/fan combo. I can't recommend one unless your processor is a slot A. in that case I'd say globalwin vos32. it is big, a little ugly (i really like it though) but it does a HELLUVA job cooling. a little loud, but I don't mind it at all.

2.) install either another couple case fans, or get bigger case fans to replace the ones you have. 60mm is just too small. I have 3x80mm and 1x92mm on my sx1030. 2x80mm in back blowing out, 1x80mm & 1x92mm intake. I did it this way because the power supply should make up for the added intake. remember, exhaust should outdo intake. (for exhaust I have 2 80mm's and power supply fan).

why would I say get more/bigger fans on TOP of getting a better heat sink? because the bigger heat sink just transports more heat off of the processor. where does the heat go? into your case's airspace. then you need to move the hot air out.

 

[Maverick2002]

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