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Plaid13 · 01-20-2006, 05:37 PM

not sure what kinda set up you have going on in your case as far as airflow but the last couple systems i have had i have had a fan on the side of the case that blows air right at the cpu heatsink/fan so all the air going to your cpus heatsink is from outside of the case not the stuff thats flowing around being heated by everything else in there. its always been good for about 5 degrees or so for me. with my 3700+ even under full load for a long time it never hits 45C and its not rare to see my cpu idle a couple degrees lower then the mb temp that both idle at 33-35C

Its also really important to make sure you have a planned airflow throught he case. Round IDE cables are always a plus. with 8 120mm fans you really need to make sure you have a good airflow through the case if those fans are blowing at eachother they could be working against eachother. experement with turning one or two of them around. if you have two on the side of the case blowing at the mb try turning one around so one blows in and one sucks out. also make sure you have quality vans. dont count on the brand name or what they say the airflow is. i have a 120mm coolermaster fan supposed to flow real well and yeah its a joke took it out and replaced it with bobs generic computer show $2 speical fan that dosnt make any more noise then the coolermaster and it flows 10x as much air. also if you have grated vents that you have the fans mounted to consider cutting them out and getting a grill to put over it the perferated metal stuff just dosnt like to let air flow as well as it could.
If money isnt a consideration you could always try watercooling.

01-20-2006, 05:37 PM	#9 (permalink)
Plaid13 I want a Plaid crayon	not sure what kinda set up you have going on in your case as far as airflow but the last couple systems i have had i have had a fan on the side of the case that blows air right at the cpu heatsink/fan so all the air going to your cpus heatsink is from outside of the case not the stuff thats flowing around being heated by everything else in there. its always been good for about 5 degrees or so for me. with my 3700+ even under full load for a long time it never hits 45C and its not rare to see my cpu idle a couple degrees lower then the mb temp that both idle at 33-35C Its also really important to make sure you have a planned airflow throught he case. Round IDE cables are always a plus. with 8 120mm fans you really need to make sure you have a good airflow through the case if those fans are blowing at eachother they could be working against eachother. experement with turning one or two of them around. if you have two on the side of the case blowing at the mb try turning one around so one blows in and one sucks out. also make sure you have quality vans. dont count on the brand name or what they say the airflow is. i have a 120mm coolermaster fan supposed to flow real well and yeah its a joke took it out and replaced it with bobs generic computer show $2 speical fan that dosnt make any more noise then the coolermaster and it flows 10x as much air. also if you have grated vents that you have the fans mounted to consider cutting them out and getting a grill to put over it the perferated metal stuff just dosnt like to let air flow as well as it could. If money isnt a consideration you could always try watercooling.