Gotta love fans

[Deeko]

I just added two 80mm case fans to my computer(tbird 800), so now I have those 2, a slot fan, a aavid dual fan on the tbird, fans on the V5, and the power supply fan. Before, I could never overclock past 103MHz bus, and I was always at around 105 degrees(motherboard temp, I don't have a CPU temp sensor.). Now, I can overclock to 880, and the temp hovers around 88. Fans are great.....Just wondering, do I have them set up the best possible way? I have the case fan in the front on intake, the one in the back on exhaust, and the slot fan has to be exhaust. I'm also considering adding one of those dual fans that sit in an empty cd drive bay, are those any good? Thanx

 

[Howard]

The way you put them would probably be the best setup for 2 case fans.

You must be talking about the 2 92mm fans that fit in an empty 5 1/2" bay. I don't recommend them because they only suck air out (blow it in your face 🙂), and I don't think you can turn the fans around. My point is that it'll screw up the airflow.

Also, you may want to put another fan in the bottom-front if there is any space for it.

 

[Ausm]

I love case fans also...got 10 in my case of overclok'in lov'in 🙂


Ausm

 

[Deeko]

woohoo played with the voltage, got it up and running stable at 924MHz. I actually had it stable at 950some, but whenever I put the voltage at 1.9, it beeps at me....steady, high/low beeps....it runs and everything, but the beep is annoying....why would it do that?

 

[PCFreak]

The beep is most likely the hardware monitoring saying that your voltage for the cpu is too high etc just goto your bios and to the section where it lists the volts temps etc and put ignor for the cpu volts monitor.

 

[Charles]

Deeko, go for it! You'll love Athlon running at 950 MHz.

 

[Soccerman]

hmm.. I gotta get a better power supply. one that can handle all these fans!

LOL.. anyway I have 1 120VAC 120mm fan blowing in on the video card and above it on the chipset. I have one 80mm fan blowing out the top (letting all that heat out), and one 80mm fan blowing in in the front port for fans. I also have the small power supply fan too (like that does much! LOL. without the PS fan or CPU fan, that's 3 fans.

if I add any more fans, it will be one more for the top to blow hot air out, and 2 to the side above and below the 120mm fan on the side. that way I have 1 80mm fan on the CPU directly, 1 80mm fan on the lower cards, and the 120mm fan blowing on the rest of the cards (the hottest, the video card) and the chipset.

I also want to get one of those Enermax 350 Watt power supplies to supply this power, AND so that I can get more air blowing out (it sucks in from the bottom of the PS, and out the back, with 2 fans AFAIK). all that though, would cost me about $40 for the 80mm fans, and another $50 (I think!) for the PS! but man! I'd have a jet engine!

alas, I need a new heatsink/fan for my CPU first before these insane cooling fans..

EDIT: you FSB overclocking ONLY? or is that just multiplier??

 

[Deeko]

FSB. My TBird is SlotA, so I would need a GFD to change the multiplier, and that would mean taking off the case, which would mean voiding the warrenty. At least this way, if I fry the chip, it will still be under warrenty. I'm surprised I got the bus up that high(120MHz), as one of my sticks of RAM is from a very old Aptiva, I don't even think it is PC66(it did run at 66MHz in the old computer, but I don't think there was a PC66 spec way back then). If I have problems, I'll probably try taking that one out, as it's only 32MB, and without it I still have 192MB. I'll go try turning off the voltage monitor, thanx!

 

[RSI]

10 fans??! holy crap!! :Q :Q

I have ONE fan in my system, and it does the trick for me! 😛 Sure I don't pull an extra 300-500MHz, but I can get an extra 100 out of the K6-2 in here and an extra ~30 out of the Cyrix 😛

One simple nice 'n quiet 3dfxcool fan.. no video card fans, no other fans at all .. still too damn noisy though, since it's in my room, and ppl complain about the noise at night 🙁

 

[Soccerman]

heh the reason I would like sooo many fans is because my room temp is always hot! so I'll be able to get my case down to near room temp, and then all I need to do is upgrade my CPU heatsink/fan!

I think that would be the end for this case, becuase I don't see any reason to put any more on it! everything would be cooled AFAIK.. hmm.. wait.. the drives.. ahh screw it. unless I get a 10K RPM drive, I'm not going to get a hard drive cooler.. I'll make one my own if I need to!

now, you said you overclocked YOUR FSB fast enough to get an 800mhz T-Bird (in other words, a T-bird with an 8X multiplier) all the way to 950? that requires a 118.75 mhz FSB! that's a pretty good FSB overclock! (most people can't hit 110 on the EV-6 Bus!).

by any chance did any of the extra cooling blow on the chipset heatsink?