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crazy8gamer

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Hey guys,

I am a sophomore in highschool, and i visit these forums daily to check out what's up with the latest tech. I have a science fair coming up, and I really cannot come up with a project. I need your help to help me come up with a few ideas. I am mainly interested in projects that would have to do with computers or cooling computer hardware. I would say that I am very technical as well.

Thx

P.S.

Any help is appreciated at this time because my proposal is due 2morrow.
 
You can do a study about how airflow helps speed up natural convection on heatsinks. That would be easy and might even be fun to do. You could do couple simple experiments and it would be very cheap. PM if you want any more ideas.
 
That would be a good place to start, maybe use a common heatsink/processor/case setup and all different fans and configurations to use for testing. You should probably invest in a real, accurate temperature probe for the sake of satisfying the scientific method. I can think of two areas you could investigate right away: effect of amount of airflow on CPU temperatures and the effect of certain case fan setups on various system component temperatures. You could set up different power level fans on different areas (i.e. one test with no case fans, one with 1x exhaust, one with 2x exhaust, one with only intake fans, one with a lot of fans)

You could also test different heatsink designs and materials (i.e. pins or skiving, copper or aluminum) but you could waste a heck of a lot of money that way and the results are somewhat obvious anyway.
 
I cant think of anything great, but maybe you could get a few long rods of different metals - like steel, iron, aluminum (copper it too expensive) put a few thermometers along each rod, heat the end of the rod and see how heat travels through the different metals. Make a chart or graph or something.
 
Originally posted by: crazy8gamer
Hey guys,

I am a sophomore in highschool, and i visit these forums daily to check out what's up with the latest tech. I have a science fair coming up, and I really cannot come up with a project. I need your help to help me come up with a few ideas. I am mainly interested in projects that would have to do with computers or cooling computer hardware. I would say that I am very technical as well.

Thx

P.S.

Any help is appreciated at this time because my proposal is due 2morrow.
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whatever it is, make sure it involves something that you need to get for testing with the newest video cars, and a lotta ram, because if you don't have them already, you DEFINITELY need to get them, because it's for school!

(you can quote me on this when talking to parents about it *wink*)
 
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