- Joined
- Aug 12, 2003
- Location
- West Virginia
Those of you who, like me purchased the SmartFan II with the "cool" led mod, may want to take note.
I turned this machine up to 219*11 the other day and started testing. It failed, but that isn't the point. Today I made some BIOS changes and upped the Vcore to 1.8. I started Prime95 and noticed my temps starting to get in the scary range 50-51 after an hour of prime. I lapped the heat sink when I put it on over the weekend using 800-100-1200-1500. It glows like a mirror. I even tested cpu contact by installing it then removing it to check for a complete cpu core pattern. I cleaned core and H/S and reinstalled (using AS3 of course). I say all this so no body will ask if I lapped the sink.
Any way, I started thinking about that light mod. There it was sitting on top of the fan glowing "very pretty" as my three year old said. Then it hit me. The plastic it's made of was covering at least 20-25% of the fan. Surely it was restricting some air flow.
Needless to say I pulled it off. Now my full load temps after an hour of Prime95 are 45C. A FIVE degree gain! Still not great, but I think I'll move the light mod to an exhaust fan (help with that positive case pressure and use the 5 degrees for a little more FSB.
I turned this machine up to 219*11 the other day and started testing. It failed, but that isn't the point. Today I made some BIOS changes and upped the Vcore to 1.8. I started Prime95 and noticed my temps starting to get in the scary range 50-51 after an hour of prime. I lapped the heat sink when I put it on over the weekend using 800-100-1200-1500. It glows like a mirror. I even tested cpu contact by installing it then removing it to check for a complete cpu core pattern. I cleaned core and H/S and reinstalled (using AS3 of course). I say all this so no body will ask if I lapped the sink.
Any way, I started thinking about that light mod. There it was sitting on top of the fan glowing "very pretty" as my three year old said. Then it hit me. The plastic it's made of was covering at least 20-25% of the fan. Surely it was restricting some air flow.
Needless to say I pulled it off. Now my full load temps after an hour of Prime95 are 45C. A FIVE degree gain! Still not great, but I think I'll move the light mod to an exhaust fan (help with that positive case pressure and use the 5 degrees for a little more FSB.