The Official Cooling Thread!

This is my case and I think these are my fans, although they might be the double ball bearing ones, I'm not sure.

 

At 1500rpm you should feel plenty of air coming out the back, but fans are often rated for different speeds.
If you feel like you need more air coming out, try Scythe S-Flex fans. (The 1600rpm ones)

 

What do you mean rated for different speeds?
EDIT: I mean they sound like a lot of air is moving but the 80mm PSU fans are moving a LOT more air.

 

Different rpm. More rpm = more airflow.

 

Isn't 1500 rpm any good?

 

It should be, I run my fans at 500rpm.

 

Well I just installed a 92mm(It's about 3.5 inches, not exactly but around there) fan from my OLD compaq machine and CPU temps seems to have dropped about 5 degrees. Motherboard temps are about the same, may have increased about 1 degree.

 

Sounds good!

 

Yeah, but its still kinda gay that this HUGE f'in fan wont move any air. I should probably get ULTRA to replace it and tell them it doesn't move as much speed as advertised.

 

Hmm,perhaps.

 

Actually there may be something wrong with my mobo. When I first installed that new fan and I put it at 100 in speefan, it was over 2000 RPM, now at 100 percent in speedfan it is at 1400 RPM.

EDIT: Figured it all out. I was playing around in speed fan and in the advanced config menu it has PWM options. I set all of them to software controlled. It seems the reason for my decreased fan speeds was not the new fan but because my CPU fan was running at 2100 RPM instead instead of 1400! I'll put the Ultra fan back, at it probably will move a nice amount of air.

EDIT(AGAIN!): Well I disabled fan speed control and I have the same kind of fans for intake and exhaust. Well with that fan control disabled my CPU runs at 2100 RPM, but both my other fans wont go over 1550 RPM! I'm guessing these are the double ball bearing ones since the other kind don't go over 1500 RPM.

 

1500rpm should be ample airflow.

 

Well I sold about 300 dollars worth of old tablet pc's that I got for free(A VERY fast Fujitsu Stylistic 500(20 Mb of RAM, 50 MHZ CPU)). So I just ordered the Freezer 7 pro and I'll let you know how much the temps drop.

EDIT: BTW I found Shane's calculator for calculating CPU Watts, and I wanted to know what the stock watts for an e6400 is? I looked on the Intel site and it mentioned 65W, is this correct?

 

Lol nice one!

 

What about the tablets? Yeah I got about 80 and I'm selling em for 25 USD a piece.

 

abuzar,

Yes, it's 65 watts. Be sure to set the stock voltage to 1.25 as the voltage is lower for that model than it is for my E4300! Mine is 1.325!

What are Tablets???

Clock On,
theone :>}

 

Tablet PCs are like laptops but they have a touchscreen, and they may nor may not have a keyboard built in. BTW my board says Normal voltage is 1.325, that isn't stock?

EDIT: Is this right?

 

abuzar1,
this is straight from the Intel specs sheet on their site!

sSpec Number:SL9S9
CPU Speed:2.13 GHz
PCG:06
Bus Speed:1066 MHz
Bus/Core Ratio:8.0
L2 Cache Size:4 MB
L2 Cache Speed:2.13 GHz
Package Type:LGA775
Manufacturing Technology:65 nm
Core Stepping:B2
CPUID String:06F6h
Thermal Design Power:65W
Thermal Specification:60.4°C
Core Voltage:0.850V-1.3525V

Sorry, I was wrong about the voltage. 1.325 is max! You want to set the speed stock in Shane's Calculator at 0.850v!

Your pulling about 146-150 watts. The cpu v only goes to 1v, so assume 150 watts. Lower that cPU voltage a bit and your temps should drop. Go by what you set it at, not by what speedfan of Everest report!

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theone :>}

 

How did you calculate the 150W?

 

abuzar1,

I input 1v for stock voltage and did a little rough calculation of the difference. It comes out to 144.61 watts on the calculator so it should be around 147-148 watts. I said just ballpark it at 150 watts as it's not going to pull more than that. The difference is .150v, so that should be about right. Intel calculates the wattage from the minimum voltage so it's pretty close! Drop your core voltage to about 1.1 or so in the setup and it should run cooler. Your OC isn't that high so it should run OK! Tomshardware ran an E6600 at 3.4 with stock voltage and mine doesn't need any more voltage till I pass 3.0Ghz!

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