Keeping it Cool

[ratsknarp]

Hello. I am new to this forum and am in need of advice/guidance towards keeping my system cool.

My new system that I am getting is:
Asus A7N8X-Deluxe
AMD AthlonXP 2500+
Volcano 11+
ATI Radeon 9800pro 256mb
GeiL Golden Dragon Ultra PC3200 1GB
Sound Blaster Audigy 2
WD 120GB Harddrive
CD-RW
DVD
Chieftec Aluminum Dragon Series Case. 2x Vantec Stealth--intake. 4x Thermaltake Smart Case Fan II--2x exhaust. 1x side. 1x top

As you can tell, this system may get very hot very quick. And my question is: Is it safe to overclock even with all these fans? (I see that the motherboard only has a heatsink on it, not a fan)

Thank you.

edit: include memory :/

 

[mindwreck]

boo.. the volcano's got to go...

edit: welcome to Anandtech:beer:

 

[NokiaDude]

Replace the Volcano 11 with a Thermaltake Silent Boost, much more quiet and almost as good as an SLK-800.

 

[slaves123]

go for it man! happy new year and welcome to anandtech forums!
you loose nothing with trying

 

[TheBDB]

With 6 case fans that shouldn't get hot at all.

 

[0roo0roo]

chieftec cases rock, i have one. don't waste your money with "smart fans". temp control only works well when everything in engieered together. otherwise the trigger temps are rather pointless. what i did was buy a fanspeed controler that fits in a drive bay, lets you dial down 4 sets of fans to whatever speed/noise you please. even at low speed the system is very cool, its simply so many fans working together. plus, it doesn't change from winter to summer so fast you can't turn a bloody knob
i have the 4 fans that face each other, front two, back two all on one knob... etc. makes it easy.

getting 7 coolermaster uv led fans would look spiffy, and only 25db. and even less with fan speed controller. rather reasonably priced at places like svc.com too

and theres no way in hell your system would get hot really quick, i've got more drives, more cards, more overclocked stuff in my case and everything is cool even with fans no where near max.

make sure to get a good quiet psu though. cheap ones tend to be loud. can be solved by hooking up to a controller, thats what i did.

 

[Granorense]

Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
chieftec cases rock, i have one. don't waste your money with "smart fans". temp control only works well when everything in engieered together. otherwise the trigger temps are rather pointless. what i did was buy a fanspeed controler that fits in a drive bay, lets you dial down 4 sets of fans to whatever speed/noise you please. even at low speed the system is very cool, its simply so many fans working together. plus, it doesn't change from winter to summer so fast you can't turn a bloody knob
i have the 4 fans that face each other, front two, back two all on one knob... etc. makes it easy.

getting 7 coolermaster uv led fans would look spiffy, and only 25db. and even less with fan speed controller. rather reasonably priced at places like svc.com too

and theres no way in hell your system would get hot really quick, i've got more drives, more cards, more overclocked stuff in my case and everything is cool even with fans no where near max.

make sure to get a good quiet psu though. cheap ones tend to be loud. can be solved by hooking up to a controller, thats what i did.

Good advise!