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GTA · 05-29-2003, 06:29 PM

I've got a fanless system, not pretty, but silent, and as they say, silence is golden

I basically screwed a waterblock to the top of the heatsinks in a generic PSU. Yeah, it got hot, really hot, but was stable for a 2 month uptime, then I had to reboot for a driver update.

In the end, I got worried about the heat and installed a 5V papst.... I was ashamed of myself

One thing to remember :

PSU's can run at very high temps, I figure, without measuring, but my mosfets were at at least 70 degrees C. And STILL stable for a LONG time.

However, I had to watercool the RAM on my GFUltra, or I was getting crashes from that, because of the zero airflow, even the little bit from your current PSU fan helps a bit.

05-29-2003, 06:29 PM	#20
GTA Cooling Savant Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: UK - Bristol Posts: 134	I've got a fanless system, not pretty, but silent, and as they say, silence is golden I basically screwed a waterblock to the top of the heatsinks in a generic PSU. Yeah, it got hot, really hot, but was stable for a 2 month uptime, then I had to reboot for a driver update. In the end, I got worried about the heat and installed a 5V papst.... I was ashamed of myself One thing to remember : PSU's can run at very high temps, I figure, without measuring, but my mosfets were at at least 70 degrees C. And STILL stable for a LONG time. However, I had to watercool the RAM on my GFUltra, or I was getting crashes from that, because of the zero airflow, even the little bit from your current PSU fan helps a bit.