Hi all, this is my first post on the forum. I finally took the plunge and upgraded to a 1.2GHz T-bird with Abit KT7A mb. It's fast and I LIKE IT! But man does this sucker run hot. Previously, I had a Celeron 533 OC'd at 800 running on an Abit BH6 using a nice hs/fan combo from 3dfxcool. Heat was never an issue. Now, I've got so much heat being generated that even the outside of the case is hot.
My case is really not cooled very well. It has only one fan - the power supply fan drawing air out of the case. Now, the first thing I want to do is put a fan on the lower front of the case to draw air in. That way I'll have air being sucked into the front and the power supply blowing hot air out the back. But it's clear even that will not be enough during peak activity (like when I play a flightsim).
I love the cooling setup Dell uses for their Optiplexes. I have a bunch of these on my LAN at work and they are wonderfully cool at all times. Most of the credit goes to the clever plastic duct/shroud that Dell mounts atop the CPU, which leads to a case fan that pulls air out. Most of you guys are no doubt very familiar with the setup they use. As the CPU fan pulls the heat off the CPU's heatsink, the fan at the other end sucks that hot air through the duct and right out of the case, without letting that heat spread out inside the case. It's the most efficient cooling system I've seen yet. But it's proprietary - only mounts in the Dell cases.
It is such an elegant solution, effective yet cheap and quiet. I'd love to get one of these CPU cooling shrouds but I haven't seen any designed for a standard ATX layout. Does anybody know where I can find one?
My case is really not cooled very well. It has only one fan - the power supply fan drawing air out of the case. Now, the first thing I want to do is put a fan on the lower front of the case to draw air in. That way I'll have air being sucked into the front and the power supply blowing hot air out the back. But it's clear even that will not be enough during peak activity (like when I play a flightsim).
I love the cooling setup Dell uses for their Optiplexes. I have a bunch of these on my LAN at work and they are wonderfully cool at all times. Most of the credit goes to the clever plastic duct/shroud that Dell mounts atop the CPU, which leads to a case fan that pulls air out. Most of you guys are no doubt very familiar with the setup they use. As the CPU fan pulls the heat off the CPU's heatsink, the fan at the other end sucks that hot air through the duct and right out of the case, without letting that heat spread out inside the case. It's the most efficient cooling system I've seen yet. But it's proprietary - only mounts in the Dell cases.
It is such an elegant solution, effective yet cheap and quiet. I'd love to get one of these CPU cooling shrouds but I haven't seen any designed for a standard ATX layout. Does anybody know where I can find one?
Frankly, I don't like Dell's cooling setup, bud dust problem.
