Cheap Cooln

[Tim the Toolman]

Been here for about 2 weeks readn everything I can on overclocking. So my first mod on pcchips 798lmr got an extra 50mhz with a k62 500. When I built this system I didnt put in a fan but I run with my case off for convience...its a good thing I did I might have fried something... After overclocking I wanted to cool it down so I went To Walmart and bought a 5$ personal fan... made a scoop for the front and aim it at the processor my temp dropped (36.5 C to 29C ). Im sure there is a reason not to do this please enlighten me... Next I modify my video card on my gaming sys read about how hot s3 chip got I open the case to my gamemachine sure enough it was almost too hot to touch. Problem my sound card was right next to the agp slot NO air flow.... I took and old processor fan and screwed it into the heat sink now its not even warm playing URT for an hour :-)) Why are the cards upside down makes me want to turn my tower upside down..... hmmmm

[YahooDave]

Well, as far as that fan there is nothing wrong with that as long as you can live with it. The Power supply that you want to add has to be a switchable one, (has a switch on the back to turn it on and off), but I am not sure if it still needs to be pluged into the mobo to turn on as I have not tried that, maybe someone else can enlighten us.

[-=UR=- Ranger]

Sure, just putting a fan next to your open case helps, but it is not perfect, as there´s no real airflow, which takes hot air with it...
And it also doesn´t look too nice.. :)