Motherboard Cooling

Easy mod for additonal CPU cooling – Stanley Slatten

NOTE: Cooling the back of the motherboard is an easy mod – Stan’s simple approach is worth considering.

The diagram explains it all:

It is just the placement of a fan to help keep the back of the motherboard cool. I am running my 3.2E on an Abit IC7 MAX3 motherboard at 3.4, but have had it as high as 3.8 for testing and bragging rights.

My system:

• Abit IC7 MAX3 motherboard
• 3.2E Prescott CPU with Zalman CNPS7000B-Cu cooling
• Two sticks of matched PC3500 256m RAM set dual channel
• Creative Audigy II Platinum ZX sound card (Bose freestyle speaker system with Acustimas sub & Altec Lansing speakers with sub)
• Nvidia GeForce 4 128MB TI4200 video card
• 2 80G sata 150 hard drives set up raid striping 0
• CDRW & DVD player (standard)
• System monitoring with front bay readout (temps and fan speeds)
• Happauage TV/FM stereo radio (with remote) card
• X3D 3d system viewing glasses
• HP 6100 all-in-one printer
• A few other bells and whistles

All this and a average connection speed of 2744 MB down and 120 up

Stanley Slatten