David C. Rankin wrote:
The bottom line is simply vacuuming out your box with a shop vac to remove all the dust bunnies, etc, can drop your idle temps by 2 degrees C. Choosing the right $9.00 cpu cooler will provide good temperature control under the worst conditions. Adding a $9.00 120mm case fan blowing ambient air in on top of the cpu cooler can drop your idle temps to rock bottom and drop your full load, torture temps by another 8-10 degrees C.
Adding even a simple paper funnel to the CPU for getting colder air from outside the box works magic too. Especially if you've e.g. graphics card(s), harddisks and other stuff warming up the air inside the box. I'm pretty certain I've as much as a 10C drop in CPU temp with the funnel. (under mprime stresstesting) /Per Jessen, Zürich -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org