Keeping things cool...

Gandelf · Post by **Gandelf** » Sat Jun 10, 2006 3:36 pm

Anyone know of a good cooler for my Athlon XP? At the moment I'm using one of those Socket A Zalman flower coolers, it's ok, but the hot weather means that it's working overtime and getting a bit noisy.

<ankh> · Post by **<ankh>** » Sun Jun 11, 2006 12:29 pm

Get a good fan with copper cooling. They rock...OR if you got loads of cash and wanna take a risk and get high qua cooling - get water cooling (there are some kick ass watercooling kits avaible).

/Ankh

Gandelf · Post by **Gandelf** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 11:58 am

Thanks for the advice.

Post by **Xest** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 12:19 pm

Remove all moving parts such as fans, make sure your PC is airtight and then fill it with chip fat.

Cromcruaich · Post by **Cromcruaich** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 1:21 pm

Xest wrote:Remove all moving parts such as fans, make sure your PC is airtight and then fill it with chip fat.

Thats for the noobs, the professionals use extra virgin olive oil.

Post by **Xest** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 1:49 pm

Oh yes

http://haphazardhacks.blogspot.com/2005 ... ter-i.html

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/2006/01/0 ... the_fans1/

HappyG · Post by **HappyG** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 4:42 pm

I recently bought Thermaltake Sonic Tower for my P4 2800. This shit is so big, it's pain to get in the box, but once it's in it works damn good. Without the fan it got my CPU temp to about 60C, which is what my original Intel cooler was able to do with fan at maximum speed (although its true, I'd have to clean it a bit

).
Than I installed a small fan inbetween with fan mate keeping it at half speed (~1500 RPM = very silent) and it got my CPU down to 35C, when running at 100% load.
Oh and I payed a bit under €30 for it and €5 for the fan.

Gandelf · Post by **Gandelf** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 4:58 pm

Thanks for the advice.
Xest, would you recommend Pork or Beef dripping for the "chip fat"?

<ankh> · Post by **<ankh>** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 8:37 pm

Im using the fan that comes with the 4ghz dual-core amd cpu on my 3.8ghz. It works great! Im at aprox 30degrees constant.

Edit: It's silent too btw.

/Ankh

Post by **Xest** » Wed Jun 14, 2006 8:27 am

Glad to hear that rather than the PoS that came with my old 3.2ghz which a) Makes a hell of a noise and b) Really doesn't cool the machine down enough in the summer.