Bought parts to make another HSF last week, finally got them yesterday and put it together.
HSF can be seen here.
It's a Thermalright SK6+ heatsink attached to a Akasa Aluminum 60-80mm adapter, with a Zalman fan on top. My old heatsink was a Globinwin FOP38.
CPU temp with the Globalwin is about 50°C average. With the other cooler, it was 60°, and I'd get BSOD's left and right. The Globalwin is back on and the system runs fine now.
I can't understand why the other heatsink isn't preforming better then my old one. Is it the large air gap due to the adapter? Do I need a 60mm fan directly on the heatsink blowing up towards the 80mm fan? I had the 80mm fan blowing up, do I need to reverse it so it blows down on the heatsink?
What am I doing wrong here? Should I just scrap the 80mm adapter and just get a 60mm panflow or something similar? The idea was to eliminate noise, which the Zalman fan did well. This FOP38 is WAY too loud for me :disgust:
HSF can be seen here.
It's a Thermalright SK6+ heatsink attached to a Akasa Aluminum 60-80mm adapter, with a Zalman fan on top. My old heatsink was a Globinwin FOP38.
CPU temp with the Globalwin is about 50°C average. With the other cooler, it was 60°, and I'd get BSOD's left and right. The Globalwin is back on and the system runs fine now.
I can't understand why the other heatsink isn't preforming better then my old one. Is it the large air gap due to the adapter? Do I need a 60mm fan directly on the heatsink blowing up towards the 80mm fan? I had the 80mm fan blowing up, do I need to reverse it so it blows down on the heatsink?
What am I doing wrong here? Should I just scrap the 80mm adapter and just get a 60mm panflow or something similar? The idea was to eliminate noise, which the Zalman fan did well. This FOP38 is WAY too loud for me :disgust: