Cooling wonder...

[Kabome]

I was doing a big compression job tonight with my comp, but it being nearly 29 degrees (celcius of course) in the room i'm in I was pushing 53 degrees load, so I decided to try something, I popped off my side panel and let the cooling breeze of a nice big room fan blow directly into the intake of my cpu fan.

Man, what a difference, right now I'm pushing a load of 43 degrees, that's just nuts! I couldn't probably get better cooling out of a slk-900a and a vantec tornado. The only downsides is the rather unwieldiness of this method of cooling

So the next time u're CPU is on the brink of a heat-induced reboot due to the oven-climate of summer, pop open your case, turn on a room fan, and watch your temps plummet... just don't stick it too close, the EMF from the motor can be a pesky thing on monitors

 

[scottchen]

I did that using a 24 inch fan blowing air into it it didn't make that much difference from just open cased, and that thing brings a load of dust.

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[Kabome]

Maybe your case ventilation is already good enough to not make much of a difference, scottchen. My case is a modded cheapo beigey, so the airflow might not be up to spec with some of the newer aluminum cases

 

[Codinerx]

Thats awesome.. it would be neat if case designers figured out some way to integrate a fan like that within the case!