Hello to you all.
With me just starting out in hardware tinkering/overclocking, I don't know if this is a new thing I found or if it is regularly done and is considered a norm if you can do it..but here goes.
After starting out tinkering with my new hardware..and overclocking here and there, I came across the inevitable problem of cooling and how to achieve the best results.
I explained in a previous post about how my graphics card fan went on the blink and while searching around in magazines for an alternative I tried and succeeded in fixing an old 486-cpu fan onto the card with greatly improved cooling..
Well A similar thing happened also the other day.
While overclocking my cpu-sys-by way of my Host-clock or fsb I noticed that my cpu temp's were rising and I started to look for a way to cool it a great deal more. Well after just buying a new drive I was SKINT literally heh, and so I looked around into my old-hardware bin-or draw..I think we all have them heh, its the place were we keep all our old hardware from the p100 and 486 days heheh.
Well what I tried and succeeded in doing was taking the HUGE FAN out of an old power supply.
Yes those massive fans in the power supply. I took one out of an old one and rigged it on a sort of mechanical arm..made out of old machano heh. Now I have a new HUGE FAN on an adjustable arm that I can place anywhere cooling is kneaded. At the moment it is aimed in the general direction of the cpu, helping the cpu's own fan keep good airflow onto the heat sink.
Well it has worked greatly..and the cpu while overcloked..very rarely gets any higher than 45-48 degrees c..were it was reaching 55 to 60 degrees c before.
I know it's kind of an irregular fan and setup, but believe me it's doing the job well heh.
Anyway I just thought I would share the idea with you..Maybe if there is someone like me out there that is short for cash but kneading an extra cooling aid, they could give it a try.
I spliced its power supply wires to a spare power plug...the sort that goes into the back of a hardware device..like drive ..cdrom or floppy..and it works fine.
Well that’s it for now..see you all again.
Regards
Nemes
With me just starting out in hardware tinkering/overclocking, I don't know if this is a new thing I found or if it is regularly done and is considered a norm if you can do it..but here goes.
After starting out tinkering with my new hardware..and overclocking here and there, I came across the inevitable problem of cooling and how to achieve the best results.
I explained in a previous post about how my graphics card fan went on the blink and while searching around in magazines for an alternative I tried and succeeded in fixing an old 486-cpu fan onto the card with greatly improved cooling..
Well A similar thing happened also the other day.
While overclocking my cpu-sys-by way of my Host-clock or fsb I noticed that my cpu temp's were rising and I started to look for a way to cool it a great deal more. Well after just buying a new drive I was SKINT literally heh, and so I looked around into my old-hardware bin-or draw..I think we all have them heh, its the place were we keep all our old hardware from the p100 and 486 days heheh.
Well what I tried and succeeded in doing was taking the HUGE FAN out of an old power supply.
Yes those massive fans in the power supply. I took one out of an old one and rigged it on a sort of mechanical arm..made out of old machano heh. Now I have a new HUGE FAN on an adjustable arm that I can place anywhere cooling is kneaded. At the moment it is aimed in the general direction of the cpu, helping the cpu's own fan keep good airflow onto the heat sink.
Well it has worked greatly..and the cpu while overcloked..very rarely gets any higher than 45-48 degrees c..were it was reaching 55 to 60 degrees c before.
I know it's kind of an irregular fan and setup, but believe me it's doing the job well heh.
Anyway I just thought I would share the idea with you..Maybe if there is someone like me out there that is short for cash but kneading an extra cooling aid, they could give it a try.
I spliced its power supply wires to a spare power plug...the sort that goes into the back of a hardware device..like drive ..cdrom or floppy..and it works fine.
Well that’s it for now..see you all again.
Regards
Nemes
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