Tell me if I missed something

[Mictlan]

Waiting for equipment to reach by mail. When all is set, my system will be like this:

Original Intel HSF with artic silver over P III 550E@682 (working to reach 133, 140 and 150, yet)

Hercules 3D Prophet II GTS Pro with BlueOrb with artic silver and 4 retail heatsinks with artic silver over 64 MB RAM (soon to be OC)

PLL with passive artic silver heat sink

Northbridge with Prophet original HSF, with artic silver

Southbridge with artic silver heatsink

Case with 1 120 mm inlet fan (top of case), 1 80 mm inlet fan (in PSU), 1 80 mm outlet fan (front) and PCI slot fan. Case temperature about 10°C over ambient (32-35°C)

I have a good experience with the Intel HSF. My CPU has a 35°C stable with SETI running. I expect to have a better performance with the artic silver, and I'm saving to get a Swifttech HSF (I think is the 374 or something like that).

How do you see this? Have I missed something?

 

[Super]

One thing that you can do is lap the heatsinks. It will help you run cooler.

 

[Super]

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(it just posted twice for some reason, and I edited it, so it won't say same thing twice)

 

[LutaWicasa]

Well, ya didn't mention what mobo, ram etc. Yeah ya certainly want to lose the Intel cooler. With my Alpha 6053 I max out at 38c load. Of course thats with 2v pushin' my Celly over a gig. Your PSU fan ought to exhaust though. I'd have my intake lower to mid case, and exhaust at the rear and high. That way you've got cooler fresh air circulating through the case and warmed air being expelled.

 

[outhouse]

I installed a nice sized HSF to my northbridge that i cut down from an old proccesor HSF cut it down payed 5 bucks for it. I'm not sure if its overkill but it looks good its about 5 times the size of the one your using now even without the fan you could put it against your skin and then the greenie and you could feel that the larger one felt much cooler. Also have you rounded your flat HD,floppy,CD, cables helps with the airflow and its free. 1 thought Ive ducted my HSF that goes to my proccesor to draw cooler air rite to the chip and this was my biggest and best mod to drop temps 23C anbient 28C running seti. you can also cut a hole in your MB tray and install a small fan on back of proccesor but I would not use a large fan 1 its not needed and 2 a large fan will cool your thermistor more then your proccesor giving you bad temp readings. YOUR CLOSE TO CATCHING ME MICTLAN

 

[Mictlan]

The mobo is an Iwill BD100+ with Intel 440BX northbridge and Intel PII4X southbridge (I love my mobo, its very stable) with a 128 MB 2-3-3 RAM and 256 2-3-3 RAM (I know this RAM sucks, but I bought it before I heard what OC was ( )

I plan to lap all the heatsinks (CPU, GPU, RAM GPU, Northbridge, Southbridge) and use artic epoxy with RAM GPU, Northbridge and Southbridge.

I'm just waiting to save enough money to buy the Swiftech (I read that its better than the Alpha) but its a little expensive (around $100)

Outhouse.....61 WU at the time of the post..... , I think you have around 63 WU. I'm going to catch you......hehe

We invite all of our fellow OC to run SETI, lets find some aliens.

 

[outhouse]

62 but your close Are you still running 1 machine ?

Oh you might want to check out some of those copper HSF's thay give almost the same performance as the one your talking about [really close] and there not near as pricy 100. bucks ouch

good luck

 

[Mictlan]

Actually, I'm running SETI in two computers: my home PC (8 h/WU) and my work PC (12-14h/WU).

Where can I look for those copper heatsinks that you are telling me,outhouse?

Again, lets invite all off our fellow OC to join us at OC's SETI team athttp://overclockers.ws/seti/oc_seti.htm

 

[outhouse]

YOU NO GOOD ROTTEN #$%##@#%$ i'm jealous i'm only running one and your way to close if not ahead of me today [havnt checked yet] as far as the copper HSF I saw the article on the front page and I believe its one of the good name brand makers if theres a way to check on last weeks articles i would try that and i have seen a few post that have mentioned them. good luck i'd say keep crunching but maybe you should play some video games or let your machine cool down for a while and let me catch up i found this one i like the CAK38 check out the cooling forum for more info