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Cab Cooling
Lilwolf:
Ok, every summer my cab stops working. I know I've had heat problems for a while, but it only happens for a few months.
Last year I just moved my computer to the outside. But this year I don't have a safe place to put it. And I've just stopped playing for a while. (and stopped all development on my frontend... :( )
Anyway, I'm getting the hanker'n to get it up and running again. I have a small (3"x3") fan thats very strong. I was going ot put it pointing in, then put it though some dryer duct plastic pipe stuff (whatever goes from the back of your dryer to outside). And put this over my processor. Then add some ducts at the top to draw warm air out.
Is this the best solution? I don't really want to add a bunch of fans and would love to move to less and quieter solution but can't afford a water cooled system for a while.
Or should I just move my computer to the outside with some extensions... and then wait for the weather to cool up. (I think its the humitity more then the heat... but we have plenty of both)
Sinner:
Heat rises...add some vents near the top to allow hot air to get out...monitor it, and if it continues to be hot, add a fan, to draw hot air out...
rdagger:
I've
RayB:
If you have a proper fan on the CPU and in the tower, then heat should NOT be an issue and could be a sign that:
A. Your heatsink is on backwards
B. You didn't spread the right amount of heatsink compound on the CPU
C. You are over-clocking the CPU
D. Something is blocking air flow.
I used to have overheating issues and thought it was due to poor ventilation and/or the fact that AMD chips just run hotter, because when I took the side off my tower, then the chip ran cooler (until I would play some intensive 3D games). But turned out the real issue was I had the heatsink on the wrong way (it was turned 180').
I scraped off the old heatsink compound, put on a new even layer. Put on the heatsink the right way this time and have not had heat issues ever since.
(In terms of fans, all I have is a power supply with two fans built into it (an intake and an out), plus of course the CPU fan, and a small front-bay in-take fan which is actually meant to be a harddrive cooler).
ultramagnus:
add some intake fans in the bottem, some outlet fans near the top, and/or underclock your cpu
and pentiums run hotter than AMD chips...