- Apr 11, 2006
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Originally posted by: allies
My CNPS-9500 never gets above 55 C
If that's running dual prime95 with the 9500 in silent mode, then I envy you and question my own masculinity, if not that of my 9500.

Originally posted by: Bobthelost
If you're not afraid of a little modding there is another option...
Take 9500, remove the fan from it, throw fan away. Contrive a mount for a 120mm fan next to the 9500's cooling fins, then run that @ whatever speed you think is appropriate. You could try doing this with a 120mm fan and leaving the stock one in place for now, see how that performs.
Of course that'd be a pain in the arse every time you go into the case and if you want to move it.
Or you could try some ducting, if you've got a side intake then a bit of flexible tubing might let you duct cool air to the intake side of the 9500.
That may be my next project if I find Q-fan revving up the 9500 too much. So far, however, it's behaving. Not much stresses a cpu like dual prime95, and I've got enough case flow to handle the hot air created by my vid card when gaming. I thought about modding the 9500 by mounting a 120mm in place of the stock fan, but that would require extending the base of the HS where the fan mounts, and I'm not sure there's enough room between the 9500 and the ram on my a8n-sli deluxe mobo. Your suggestion would be simpler than that. I may try zip tying a 120mm fan to the 9500 as a quick and dirty experiment in the future.