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Heres the scenario. I need to cool a system for a friend that has his PC in a room that gets a bit warmer than the rest of his house which is mostly climate controlled to about 68 - 70* F . The room his PC/Drafting board is in faces south so during the day from spring to fall that room gets about 5* - 7* F warmer than the rest of his house. The problem there is I just went to his house today after he said his system died. Turns out the HSF was just clogged and the Tforce4 Sli wouldn't let him boot with the HSF being clogged ( thank god for temp shutdown ). After I cleaned his system out I reminded him that he needs to de-dustify his system at least once every 3 months.
Long story short. He wants a very low maintainance, silent cooling solution that will allow him to do his work without worrying about dusting out his PC while being as quiet as possible.
Here's what he needs to cool, all parts are run at 100% stock speed/voltage :
Opteron 170
Nforce4 Chipset
ATI FireGL V5200 ( I think )
The ambient temp he'll be cooling the parts at is gonna be close to 75 - 78* F starting in a couple of weeks. His current CPU temp at idle on his Opty 170 is about 39* C
Okay, for starters I'd like to keep all the parts below $300 if possible. Heres what We've come up with so far :
1x Can 'O' air
1x Noctua NH-U12F High Performance Cooler
1x Thermalright HR-05 IFX Chipset Cooler
1x CORSAIR CMPSU-450VX ATX12V V2.2 450W Power Supply
1x ARCTIC COOLING ACCELS1 Rev 2 VGA Cooler
3x Scythe S-Flex SSF21E 120mm Case Fans
1x 120mm Aluminum Mesh Fan Filter (Black)
Op Requested his thread be locked since objective was met. So locking i do!
Case and Cooling Moderator Aigomorla
Heres the scenario. I need to cool a system for a friend that has his PC in a room that gets a bit warmer than the rest of his house which is mostly climate controlled to about 68 - 70* F . The room his PC/Drafting board is in faces south so during the day from spring to fall that room gets about 5* - 7* F warmer than the rest of his house. The problem there is I just went to his house today after he said his system died. Turns out the HSF was just clogged and the Tforce4 Sli wouldn't let him boot with the HSF being clogged ( thank god for temp shutdown ). After I cleaned his system out I reminded him that he needs to de-dustify his system at least once every 3 months.
Long story short. He wants a very low maintainance, silent cooling solution that will allow him to do his work without worrying about dusting out his PC while being as quiet as possible.
Here's what he needs to cool, all parts are run at 100% stock speed/voltage :
Opteron 170
Nforce4 Chipset
ATI FireGL V5200 ( I think )
The ambient temp he'll be cooling the parts at is gonna be close to 75 - 78* F starting in a couple of weeks. His current CPU temp at idle on his Opty 170 is about 39* C
Okay, for starters I'd like to keep all the parts below $300 if possible. Heres what We've come up with so far :
1x Can 'O' air
1x Noctua NH-U12F High Performance Cooler
1x Thermalright HR-05 IFX Chipset Cooler
1x CORSAIR CMPSU-450VX ATX12V V2.2 450W Power Supply
1x ARCTIC COOLING ACCELS1 Rev 2 VGA Cooler
3x Scythe S-Flex SSF21E 120mm Case Fans
1x 120mm Aluminum Mesh Fan Filter (Black)
Op Requested his thread be locked since objective was met. So locking i do!
Case and Cooling Moderator Aigomorla