General Overheating Questions

[mutantaxe]

Is this correct ? The fan on the Heatsink ( Tiger CPU Cooler ) blows air onto the heatsink against
sucking the air away from the heatsink. At the moment with the sides of the case the temps are 35C MB/59C CPU according to Asus Probe but are 10C lower in the Bios. Computer appears to be running find but I want to reduce the heat. I am thinking about drilling some holes in the side of the case.........roughly next to the CPU and putting a couple of extraction fans at the top of the case ( a full tower Aopen )

btw..........last thing I want to do is try and remove the current heat sink as I have already broke one of the plastic clips on the CPU holder. Maybe remove the fan and get a better fan for the CPU ?

Av7133
1200 T/Bird
Hercules 3D Ultra
256 meg 133 ram

 

[Tepin]

" I am thinking about drilling some holes in the side of the case.........roughly next to the CPU and putting a couple of extraction fans at the top of the case ( a full tower Aopen )"

I don't know about the holes in the side, but a blowhole on top sucking the hot air out would certainly make a difference. I put a 80mm through the top of mine and it made a huge difference. I've also cabletied an 80mm fan so it hangs down from the bottom of the power supply about 1.5" from the cpu fan & blows into it. I'd found that I had better cooling with the side cover off so I suspected that the air was being blown by the cpu fan before it had a chance to suck it through. At the bottom front of the machine I cut out that sucky 80mm grate they put in (now it's a rather ugly 100mm+ hole (only had tinsnips!) and cut a nice neat 92mm hole in the plastic bezel. I had room between the frame front and the bezel to mount a 92mm directly to the bezel, blowing air into the system through that ugly hole in the frame. Result is 23-25 deg C idle, 34 load without too much noise.

 

[LouPoir]

On the A7V133, AsusProbe temps are reported too high. Use the bios temp. Bios temp of 49C is excellent.


Lou