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Chew_Toy · 07-07-2004, 06:47 AM

Chew Toy - umm, you don't appear to be cooling PSU, HDDs or Motherboard voltage regulators with your setup. May I respectfully suggest that you look more closely at my pic.

I did notice, I am not cooling those things with water but all are air cooled. On the MB the abit oates cools the power, I have an 80mm fan cooling my HDs and the PS has 2 fans also. I dont see adding heat from those Items into the cooling loop since none of those items are at a dangerous heat level. My case temp runs about 10°F over ambient (read from instant read thermometer) My MB power reads about 15~20°c over ambient (read from onboard sensor) and my HDs are barely warm to the touch.so I would guess maybe at 100°f.

And my system runs 24/7 at 100% cpu load (I run 2 instances of FAH 24/7) and it is my HTPC
I have 3 tv tuners in it (PVR350, PVR250 and a 9800AIW soon to have another PVR250) also a plextor 8x drd writer a 12x dvd player 2x200meg sata HDs .

it also runs that way @ 290~295fsb with a 2.4c and if/when I bench with it I run it at 300~304

here are a couple shots of my temps.

MBM5 Dashboard

MBM5 High/Lo

I built it to perform and be reliable with noise as a secondry consideration. I sleep with it less than 2 feet from my head.

If I were to gool anything else with water it would be the ram.

07-07-2004, 06:47 AM	#316
Chew_Toy Cooling Savant Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Wisconsin Posts: 120	Chew Toy - umm, you don't appear to be cooling PSU, HDDs or Motherboard voltage regulators with your setup. May I respectfully suggest that you look more closely at my pic. I did notice, I am not cooling those things with water but all are air cooled. On the MB the abit oates cools the power, I have an 80mm fan cooling my HDs and the PS has 2 fans also. I dont see adding heat from those Items into the cooling loop since none of those items are at a dangerous heat level. My case temp runs about 10°F over ambient (read from instant read thermometer) My MB power reads about 15~20°c over ambient (read from onboard sensor) and my HDs are barely warm to the touch.so I would guess maybe at 100°f. And my system runs 24/7 at 100% cpu load (I run 2 instances of FAH 24/7) and it is my HTPC I have 3 tv tuners in it (PVR350, PVR250 and a 9800AIW soon to have another PVR250) also a plextor 8x drd writer a 12x dvd player 2x200meg sata HDs . it also runs that way @ 290~295fsb with a 2.4c and if/when I bench with it I run it at 300~304 here are a couple shots of my temps. MBM5 Dashboard MBM5 High/Lo I built it to perform and be reliable with noise as a secondry consideration. I sleep with it less than 2 feet from my head. If I were to gool anything else with water it would be the ram.