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cooling the back of the cpu position on mobo

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usual_suspect

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I was wondering if anyone had tried this or if it would even do any good. I mean cutting a hole in the metal motherboard tray where the cpu is and putting a fan there.
 
I've seen reviews for fans set up on the backside of video cards opposite the gpu, seemed to be effective. Sounds like a great idea for extreme cooling for cpu's
 
I believe overclockers.com had an article about it, and it proved to be noneffective. All it did was cool the temp probe, not the CPU.
 
Yeah, the motherboard isn't what gets so hot. It won't have any effect on cooling the CPU. The motherboard might be happy, but it won't be of any difference for the CPU.
 
its great for lowering the socket-thermistor on an AMD setup...... but has minimal to no effect on actual DIE cooling.



Mike
 
don't ask me... but i've seen people bend down the thermistor because they were scared by their temp readings... by lowering it, you drop the readi1ng temp significantly...

Same effect is accomplished by blowing air on the motherboard back... It lowers the "reading" but doesn't actually lower CPU temp.


Mike
 
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