cooling issues

[danger]

right I've got the final spec for my poota I'm building:

i'm worried the only cooling i've got in there is the case fan + the provided heatsink n' fan with the athlon processor....

now there's a 7200rpm HDD, 1.6ghtz proc and a pretty hot GFX card and stuff......

I know FA when it comes to cooling but that sounds like I'm gonna come home and find my house has burned down... will that do fine? do i need a more expensive case ? if so any suggestions... do i need one of those OTES things on me GFX card ?

any help appreciated once again

 

[kameleon]

buy another case fan for your peace of mind

 

[bids]

One of my machines is almost the same (except 2 Ghz Intel), and I have no probs at all with 'standard' cooling - give it a try with existing setup, and if you experience instability problems - go for extra cooling then.

 

[-b5-lunatic]

u could get one of them exhaust blowers from maplin and put that under ur video card.......thats what i have done works a treat .......and its was under a £10 i think .......

try 2 have a fan at the front 2 suck in air ........and 1 in the back that blows...........
also maplins do a H/D coolmaster (might b wrong name )...it's only a cage with a poor heat srink on it with 3 smallfans in the front .......its ok i get less blue screens of death now ........

 

[danger]

cheers, think I'll give the exhaust blower for the GFX a go..... I didn't want to fork out for one of those OTES things, they're ridiculously overpriced!

Actually I'll try the HDD thing as well

 

[xane]

I strongly recommend you get a 400W PSU. With some mobos the 300W doesn't cut it and they become unstable because of the load on the +5V line, you may be okay with an Abit tho.

 

[danger]

ahh cheers ok I will, I thought I read somewhere that Athlon XP's needed a 300W PSU ?!

 

[Scooba Da Bass]

At least 300W is the recomendation, the more the better tho

 

[Xavier]

Personally I'd say the spec was fine and until you build it don't bother with anything else...

extra fans, bigger PSU's - they all just make your PC nosier and if there isn't a heat problem (which tbh with that spec there shouldn't) you'll be better off not throwing more crap in.

Oh, and for those who think they need a wind tunnel to cool their graphics cards - the reference Ti4200 design from NVIDIA is passively cooled - they don't run hot enough to need a fan.

Xav

 

[-b5-lunatic]

Originally posted by ^Danger
ahh cheers ok I will, I thought I read somewhere that Athlon XP's needed a 300W PSU ?!

i got a 400 w PSU running a XP 2000 2 x H/D cd writer + dvd drive plus a few fans

 

[Happy Go Lucky]

thats what i'd like a passively cooled ti4200, i've got my pc nice & quiet, i'd like to keep it that way.

 

[danger]

how'd u go about keeping it quiet? is there some magic compromise between few fans for less noise and more fans for more cooling ?

 

[Dimebag]

i was running an overclocked athlon 1.1 @ 1.2, 5 hdds, 2 scsi cd roms, ls 120, all 6 pci card slots full and 9 case fans off a 300W psu for over 2 years, you dont *need* anything higher, im more than convinced its pure myth to be honest.

Dime

 

[xane]

It's nothing to do with the CPU speed, the load is on the +5V line which I believe is RAM (??), I have an Epox mobo that is very sensitive to fluctuations on this line and cuts out if it dips to 4.7V, even using a 850Mhz Duron I still get this problem, but a cheapo £22 400W PSU solves it, same issue happened with SK on his Epox mobo.

My Abit seems less sensitive, but I put a 400W in that anyway.

 

[Happy Go Lucky]

Originally posted by ^Danger
how'd u go about keeping it quiet? is there some magic compromise between few fans for less noise and more fans for more cooling ?

http://www.quietpc.com

You will seriously compromise your ability to overclock, if you go this route tho,

 

[danger]

don't plan on overclocking it at all, i'm not l337 enough I don't want to solder the cip in any way and I don't like the look of altering the FSB