- Joined
- Jan 4, 2001
Never thought a case could make so much difference.
I was using a mid-tower case with not a lot of room inside. It's the smallest case that I think can still be called a mid-tower. It had the power supply turned sideways and was placed next to the ATX outlets on the back of the case. My 1G T-bird would normally run around 29 C idle, and jump up to 55 or more under full load.
I got a full-tower case now, with a 300 watt power supply (was previously using a 250), and lots of breathing room. There's an intake fan on the bottom of the front, an exhaust fan on the top of the back, a slot-exhaust-fan under my video card (which I had before), and the power supply is almost completely open on the bottom.
Just played a long bout of Counter-Strike and the CPU only went up to about 38 C.
That's a drop of almost 20 degrees C! So a word of advice to people having cooling problems. Take your case into consideration. Your CPU can only get as cool as the air around it, so bad airflow means heat buildup.
-TB
I was using a mid-tower case with not a lot of room inside. It's the smallest case that I think can still be called a mid-tower. It had the power supply turned sideways and was placed next to the ATX outlets on the back of the case. My 1G T-bird would normally run around 29 C idle, and jump up to 55 or more under full load.
I got a full-tower case now, with a 300 watt power supply (was previously using a 250), and lots of breathing room. There's an intake fan on the bottom of the front, an exhaust fan on the top of the back, a slot-exhaust-fan under my video card (which I had before), and the power supply is almost completely open on the bottom.
Just played a long bout of Counter-Strike and the CPU only went up to about 38 C.
That's a drop of almost 20 degrees C! So a word of advice to people having cooling problems. Take your case into consideration. Your CPU can only get as cool as the air around it, so bad airflow means heat buildup.
-TB
