Air cooling success

[Pntgrd]

I don't know what did the most but I am finally getting good temps with air. Went to an Alpha 8045, but in my old CasEdge case, lapping the Alpha, adding washers, or what. I was only getting 48c idle and 52c load at first with the Alpha. Changed from a Sunon 39cfm fan to the Panaflo 46cfm and temps went to 44c/46c. Decided to change case and ordered an Antec 1000 SOHO case. While I was waiting for that to arrive tried adding washers to the sccrews on the Alpha. Killed my KK266 in the process trying to hold a turning stand-off (watch out all Alpha owners, this was my fault, but it can happen so fast). So had to order new board. Case came but no board. So I passed the time by lapping the Alpha, starting at 320, ending at 2500, almost mirror finish, but couldn't find any suitable polish. Board came and put it all together last night with 3 washers on the Alpha. I am very pleased with the results.

Idle (no idle hack, yet)
27c case / 35c cpu

Load (Sandra Burn-In loops)
29c case / 39c to 40c (Fluctuates) cpu

Now I am getting somewhere

[wolfsid]

Originally posted by Pntgrd
I don't know what did the most but I am finally getting good temps with air. Went to an Alpha 8045, but in my old CasEdge case, lapping the Alpha, adding washers, or what. I was only getting 48c idle and 52c load at first with the Alpha. Changed from a Sunon 39cfm fan to the Panaflo 46cfm and temps went to 44c/46c. Decided to change case and ordered an Antec 1000 SOHO case. While I was waiting for that to arrive tried adding washers to the sccrews on the Alpha. Killed my KK266 in the process trying to hold a turning stand-off (watch out all Alpha owners, this was my fault, but it can happen so fast). So had to order new board. Case came but no board. So I passed the time by lapping the Alpha, starting at 320, ending at 2500, almost mirror finish, but couldn't find any suitable polish. Board came and put it all together last night with 3 washers on the Alpha. I am very pleased with the results.

Idle (no idle hack, yet)
27c case / 35c cpu


not bad for aircooling i've seen better tho
Load (Sandra Burn-In loops)
29c case / 39c to 40c (Fluctuates) cpu

Now I am getting somewhere

[The Overclocker]

very nice, shame you had to waste so much money to get there.

[Alex99]

I see in your sig you have Athlon 1333 Mhz. Is that stock speed or OC'd? If stock, why not OC the crap out of that bad boy now since you have good cooling?