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Loviatar · Apr 01, 2005, 05:16 PM // 17:16

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Originally Posted by Nascent

Lol alright, thanks for the suggestions everyone :P so far its running MUCH cooler now that the dust is gone. I'll be looking into new HSF's for my cpu and vid card when I have the cash to spare.

on the cpu cooler

get name brand get copper

get bigger than you need for margin of safety

my barton core 2500+ never gets higher than 45 even if he room is hot

use arctic silver or what is recommended by the heatsink company you ge it from

larger fans for exhaust with a fanbus to run them only as high as needed for hearing comfort

Lansing Kai Don · Apr 01, 2005, 07:18 PM // 19:18

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Originally Posted by Loviatar

on the cpu cooler

get name brand get copper

get bigger than you need for margin of safety

my barton core 2500+ never gets higher than 45 even if he room is hot

use arctic silver or what is recommended by the heatsink company you ge it from

larger fans for exhaust with a fanbus to run them only as high as needed for hearing comfort

I agree with everything but bigger than you need (sometimes a HS can be huge but doesn't cool worth anything), I'd check sites out like tomshardwareguide.com and frostytech.com to see how they stack up against other HS/Fan's with cooling and noise output. I like a silent computer ( everything but PSU so far... a lil disappointed but learned my lesson).... so I prefer SilenX Fan's ($12) for chassis air flow, and Zalman for HS/Fan ($40 for the pure copper)... I love this thing. And if you trust heat pipes, you can take a look at those too.

Lansing Kai Don

Loviatar · Apr 01, 2005, 07:29 PM // 19:29

i use OCZ GOLIATH heatsinks

relatively small (copper of course and shrouded)
sunnon case fan on the heatsink

120mm exhaust fan (80+ CFM ) so you can see the need for the fanbus to keep it quiet.

but i have reserve cooling

92 mm intake on fanbus as well

not noisy and works

when the dust elephants shake the room running around i clean them out

EDIT

sorry for confusion

anytime i say bigger than you need i am refering to capacity not physical size but on looking at it there is no reason anybody would know that

Matty · Apr 02, 2005, 03:09 AM // 03:09

everyone else seems to have helped ya out but one quick tip with the whole dust prob I wouldnt use compressed air to clean out the inside the prob with that is your blowing dust deeper into sockets and other places which can cause problems for the rest others have covered haha.

Lansing Kai Don · Apr 02, 2005, 04:32 AM // 04:32

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Originally Posted by Matty

everyone else seems to have helped ya out but one quick tip with the whole dust prob I wouldnt use compressed air to clean out the inside the prob with that is your blowing dust deeper into sockets and other places which can cause problems for the rest others have covered haha.

I've never liked compressed air, personally I use a thick paintbrush (watercolor type) to do all of my cleaning (if you haven't tried this, it works wonders and is cheap). I also head some makeup brushes are really good too.

Lansing Kai Don

Ren Falconhand · Apr 02, 2005, 04:56 AM // 04:56

This may sound realy stupid but here goes.

My PC is right next to my window a/c unit. when the a/c is on (most of the time) the a/c blows riight in to the open clots and acoss the Graphics card, I use ATI as my PC has never liked Nvidia

Ren

Lansing Kai Don · Apr 02, 2005, 05:02 AM // 05:02

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Originally Posted by Ren Falconhand

This may sound realy stupid but here goes.

My PC is right next to my window a/c unit. when the a/c is on (most of the time) the a/c blows riight in to the open clots and acoss the Graphics card, I use ATI as my PC has never liked Nvidia

Ren

Why is that stupid? Your making a great use of the a/c as a cooling agent for your computer. If it's a window unit it should blow all over the computer right? Or is there come kind of mini window unit? What I don't like about compressed air is that it blows dust everywhere instead of someplace easily picked up by hand (as in my paintbrush remark). And, wow, I guess it's true. It seems there is nVidia fans and there is ATI fans and then the very very few of us who don't care and instead look at performance to the dollar.

Lansing Kai Don

Ren Falconhand · Apr 02, 2005, 05:18 AM // 05:18

Thanks I thought I would get burned on that on. As to Nivida I try one once and could not even get windows to start. Once bitten twice shy.

Ren

Lews · Apr 02, 2005, 05:51 AM // 05:51

Thats smart, not stupid.

static deathbringer · Apr 02, 2005, 11:09 AM // 11:09

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Originally Posted by Nascent

This has been really bugging me lately, so I wanted to know if anyone could give me a difinative answer.
First off, the specs:

Motherboard: Asus P4P800-VM
Processor: Pentium 4 @ 2.8 Ghrz
RAM: 1280 DDR
Video Card: Asus/Nvidia V9570 GeForce 5700 with 256 DDR

As of late, my Video Cards temp monitoring settings have been giving me grief, it keeps beeping cause its reached the 120 C threshold. This got me to wondering what the other parts of my PC are running at, so I installed some software that game with my motherboard and it was telling me the CPU was running between 60 to as high as 78 C (depending on what I was doing) and the Motherboard was running at roughly 47 C. I also took the temp of my room, and its about 25 C in here (cant really make it lower, I have a terrarium with a tarantula that needs roughly that to live)

I had problems when I first built this PC, so I threw in two extra fans to help circulate air, but Im still concerned. So I was wondering, what could be considered an average temperature for a computer of those specs? Should I be overly concerned, or am I good so long as it doesnt get much hotter...

I really don't know what else to do aside from get a new heatsink for the CPU. Also the program I used told me the RPM's of the fan for the CPU, and they sat at around 3220 RPM, when it said next to it the Average for a fan was 6000 RPM. If possible, how would I go about boosting the RPM's of my CPU's fan to try and get more air on it? The last thing I want is to burn this bugger out, especially this close to the release date of Guild Wars

Also, moving my computer to another room really isnt an option. No space elsewhere

i dont know if its been mentioned yet, but what kind of power supply do you have? whats the wattage on it? reason i ask is you are running some powerful stuff there and if you dont have a power supply of at least 350-450 you may have some serious trobule in the future, i made my first comp with a 433 amd and a 32mb vid card(back then it was as uber as it could get) and only put in a 80 watt power supp. needless to say it ran for about 4-5 hours till everything fried...just suggestion even if it dosent fix your current problem, but it might