• We’re currently investigating an issue related to the forum theme and styling that is impacting page layout and visual formatting. The problem has been identified, and we are actively working on a resolution. There is no impact to user data or functionality, this is strictly a front-end display issue. We’ll post an update once the fix has been deployed. Thanks for your patience while we get this sorted.

I built a very silent system, would heat be problem?

O

oko

Member
I have built myself a Athlon 1700+ system in a Sky Hawk jupiter case.
I have done the followings to make it silent:

- Replaced power supply's first fan with a papst and disabled intake fan.
- Replaced TI4200's fan with Zalman ZM-80.
- Replaced CPU's heatsink/fan with AX-7 + papst.

Both papsts are 19cfm (pretty low actually).

I also disabled all the case fans. So right now only two papst are
active. CPU temp. is around 46 (idle), 51 (full load). MB is around 40.
And case is around 28. BTW, I'm running Athlon 1700+ at 170*10.

There has not been a problem so far (2+ weeks) but when I read the forums
here, everybody is talking about case fans etc. Without any case fans,
will there be any damage given those temperatures?

Thanks.
 
Fire up a good game of your favorite system-killing game (UT2003) and play it for a few hours. If you don't lock up you're probably fine. Yes, and upgrade in 6 months so just in case you're not fine it won't die on you 🙂

I had a maxtor HD I put in one of those silentdrive things (think: heat coffin) and baked it to death in 6 months or so.
 
Those temps looks pretty good for what cooling you have. I suggest looping a benchmark like 3dmark or run seti for 24 hours strait. If your system still has temps around what you posted, then I would say that it would be ok. AMD does suggest having at least one case fan, so if you want a little cooler temp, then get a really quiet pabst fan, like the 12db one.
 
your CPU temps are fine, I have a somewhat similar setup with a Panaflo in the PSU and a silent generic fan on the CPU

your power supply's life may be shortened but I wouldn't worry much about it

run 3DMARK or something in a loop for 12-24 hours. if it crashes, you're in trouble.
 
Thanks for the info!

Actually I ran Prime95 torture test for about 10 hours and it did not give
any errors. That's when CPU temp went up to 51. I may also try 3dmark.
 
Temps look very good indeed.

My perspective has changed to basically let the silicon run hot as it wants without causing problems and only worry about keeping the HDs truly cool. Rest of it, pfft, IF you can get it to die sooner it takes the hassle of eBaying or giving away old videocards and CPUs away. At your temps looks like you're still going to have to find something to do with working hardware even if you keep it around for ten years 🙁

heh

--Mc
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

TRENDING THREADS

Back
Top