On Friday 29 April 2005 07.13, Pieter Hulshoff wrote:
On Friday 29 April 2005 06:30, Darryl Gregorash wrote:
All this talk of Athlons and heat makes me wonder if people on this list have forgotten that the Athlon is notorious, always has been, for the heat it produces. I don't know if you can get an AMD processor anymore that does not include a fan, and this is why.
How are the fans that come with a "boxed" CPU? Are they any good, or should they be tossed out the door asap?
Regards,
Pieter
I've been running my Dual Celeron 433 with original boxed fans for a few years now. I even ran them overclocked (up around 500-550) a while, without so much as a hickup, just some 10 degrees Celcius hotter, thats about all. So in my case they have been more than adequate. I am running them at standard (433) today at some 32-35 degrees (light load) And i if press them, i end up around 50 C. And i have three disks running fairly warm inside that case too. I cant say for sure if newer and faster CPU's coming with boxed are any better or worse, but i suspect that depends on the box... A big culprit is the disks. They generate quite a lot of heat too. So one step to lower case temp's are to install diskfans, and extra case fans too. I would set a fast overly hot system up as follows: Two bigger fans for the case: One to puch cool air in, and one to pull warm out. Disk fans (if needed) and maybe a bigger heatsink/cpufan (if the boxed seems too small). Chipset fans for the bridges, and also a graphic chip cooler (if not supplied). Anything to get heat OF system is good in my point of view. Sure, it will be a bit noisier, but power costs... -- /Rikard " Sharing knowledge is the most fundamental act of friendship. Because it is a way you can give something without loosing something." -R. Stallman --------------------------------------------------------------- Rikard Johnels email : rikjoh@norweb.se Web : http://www.rikjoh.com/users/rikjoh Mob : +46 735 05 51 01 PGP : 0x461CEE56 ---------------------------------------------------------------