Can you have too much cooling?

[yaoiboimi]

Just a thought here we have a case that we have so much CFM could/would it interfere with something like a stock CPU fan, hence creating turbulence for the air needed?

 

[dagger]

It depends on airflow. But realistically, no.

 

[SirCrono]

If you hook a jet engine to your case, maybe.

Anyway, you can have too much cooling, you can tell when the effect of removing a fan isn't noticeable in temps but it is in noise levels.

Cooling is about balance between, well, cooling and noise.

 

[rockbyter]

when air cooling via heatsinks, the faster the air speed, plus higher the air volume the better. Theoretically, and we are talking extreme, if you had a handful of crazy fans, and for some reason an ungrounded device you would generate static electricity via friction, etc. All devices are grounded so without a wiring fault (AC OR DC), or you touching physically touching something to transfer that static energy, you won't have a problem.

Things that can go wrong that you can adjust/fix:

*fan that gets pointed in the wrong direction (it happens)
*case fan somehow pointing just right at smaller video or northbridge fan that causes it to spin faster than designed and bust a bearing (happens more often when someone uses compressed air to clean the heatsink, but the noise is usually obvious, high pitched weeee.)
*dead zone around the cards where no air moves, re-aim or add fans and venting as necessary.

 

[Shadow703793]

Yes! LN2 cooling! . It pretty much kills your CPU,etc.

 

[Guest]

or if you ran your computer at absolute zero

then it wouldn't work

ever

hehe

(well maybe if it thawed... don't really know)

 

[frozenlead]

The real question to ask is...

Can you have too much money?

 

[Houndsteeth]

Dust. Dust will always be the bane of air cooling. And the more volume of air your box moves, the more dust your box will collect.

To combat this, get a minivac or a can of air and clean the dust bunnies out every other month. I still have to do this with my water cooled boxes too. And I have seen phase-change setups that not only had to deal with dust, but dust and condensation runoff that formed a very nasty slime that had to be cleaned off the compressor coils and heat exchange. At least I don't have to deal with that in my water cooled boxes.