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Fullmetal Chocobo

Fullmetal Chocobo

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I just spent two hours swapping out heat sinks and fans on my duallies. Going from stock (from mobo) HSF's to Swiftech MCX603 heatsinks with a Panaflo M1A fan, I thought it would keep the procs a lot cooler. I boot up the system, load SETI to get the CPU cycles going, and it's about the same temps. 118F on CPU1, and 120F on CPU2. I'm hoping it will take some time for the Artic Silver Ceramique to liquify and do it's thing. I really hope that is the case, otherwise, I just wasted a lot of time and money for nothing. I guess they are prettier though... 🙂
Tas.
 
Same thing happened to me with the chipset temps. My NB temps were in the mid to high 40's on my Neo Platinum board. So I removed the stock heatsink and installed the Zalman ZM-NB47J, and booted the PC up, and it was the same temps. I installed another fan in the front to blow over the HD bay, and it dropped it to 40. It was such a pain to install the new heat sink, beacuse I had to take the hole mobo out to get to the plastic pins on the bottom!
 
You need a stronger fan with that heatsink. It performs *alot* better if yiou get some better airflow going through it. XP-90s will work better with those fans.
 
So 32 CFM fans would be too small? I can't hear the fans at all over the dual 120mm fans, so I guess it wouldn't matter if I got stronger fans. Then the matter is just reinstalling new fans. But if it would work, it would be worth it.
Tas.
 
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