The Official PC building thread -3rd Edition

They had them inside the case, but the idea was, I believe, to complement front air intake, such that it ended up in all parts of the case, rather than just stagnating in the hard drive area. The case in question was the Khaos, a hugely expensive 'experimental' if you will. However, more standard cases such as the Antec Nine Hundred also have a system that allows fans to be fitted behind the hard disks as well as in front.

As for the weather it's interesting you should say that. Until tuesday, we had a period of unusual warmth here, with temperatures hitting 81ºF in London and 79ºF here. For May in the UK, especially in the north, that's very hot by comparison. Today it's 59ºF at 2pm, which is about right for this time of year. What made the weather so humorous is I had returned from a field trip in Tenerife to discover that the daytime temperatures back home were actually slightly warmer than where I'd left!

After how unpleasant it was back home on the few hot days I decided to invest in a portable air conditioner, and am more than satisfied with how useful it's been so far. I'm hoping I can squeeze it in the car back home at the end of term to cool my sauna of a room there, which is less than half the size of this one.

 

Thanks Sam. Now I remember it!

Russ

 

russ i can't move the H50 down to the second fans, as yes both GPUs are millimeters away from the bottom fan, so the rad won't fit, and i can't add a push pull config to the rad on the top fan as it'll block the 24pin ATX slot. I did say it was cramped .

well the fan on my old 4870's vf1000 broke, and compared to my new one, it wasn't as fast on the lowest setting, nor was it was bright (blue led in fan) so as per bittech recommendation for a 4890 imma get the £12 akasa vortexx neo blue. While this wasn't enough to quaily for scans free delivery, i decided to buy a fan aswell, so i have bought a gentle typhoon 1450 aswell. Love to see how that goes

 

I use one of these, in pull on the rear.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835185058
It's about 5 cfm more than the front stock fan. A little higher cfm than the 1450, and they work real well together! It's not that loud, as I can still hear the pump and the hard drives, which are very quiet! It cools real well, and I want it as good as I can get it, before the summer get's here! If I switch the fans and put the stock fan on the rear, it get's loud because of cavitation and the temps go up! With the lower cfm fan (63 vs 68 cfm) on the front, it's pretty quiet. Not silent, but with the temps I'm getting it's not annoying! It makes the Scythe spin about 200 rpm faster, around 1400 rpm.

I was looking at Will's temps and noticed that his CPU temp is higher than the cores. He's using a newer version of Everest, and I still think the MB temp and the CPU temp are reversed. My CPU is usually 4-8C cooler than the cores! I've never seen it higher! It's not like air cooling at all! The temperature changes occur really fast! Case cooling is radically different without all the heat that radiates from an air cooler! I had to make a lot of changes to the case airflow, but it all seems to work well now. No more hot spots! LOL!! Thanks for the info!

Best Regards,
Russ

 

Returning the my 965BE C3 to AMD for testing shipping out to Cali Sunnydale mind you tuesday,They will keep me informed about the issues in hand on what's going with the chip and the idle Temps and. I did ask what's recommend voltages limit on the new C3's 1.4v max not 1.5v on all Phenom II X4 he also said that the 965's should idle lower at stress free temps around 32 to 34c in a good air flowing case and that's with a factory heatsink and the reason why that they putting copper 2 pipe heatsinks in there cpu's box's now is cause to intimidate intel to show them they can produce better stock cooler when. I get results back.I'll post them...

 

Will,
That's not what they have posted on the AMD Official Forum! The techs and Engineers who moderate the forum say 1.50v, and say that the absolute max the C3s can handle is 1.55v, but it's not recommended! I've had no problems at 1.472v with heat or anything else, not even with the Freezer 64 at 3.8GHz. I might also point out that that's 72 thousandths of a volt over!

Intel isn't going to change their cooler. Not as long as they can blackmail you into having to purchase the Box version, and charge you about $25 for their $3.99 cooler! I love how people think that you get that piece of junk for free. I sell one every once in a while for $25 because some people only want the Intel cooler, it's the best! ROFLMSOAO!! You want the 3 year warranty, you have to pay the extra bucks for their crappy cooler!

Intel threatened me with voiding my warranty on my E6750 because I wasn't using the stock cooler. I laughed at the guy and asked him to let me speak to his Supervisor. He changed his tune real quick! Makes you wonder how many people who don't know better get stuck for a new CPU!

BTW, AMDs RMA is light years better than Intel's! You only need to ship back the CPU. Intel wants the whole thing. CPU, Cooler and Original Box! AMD sends you a shipping label from Fedex, and pays for the shipping, both ways. Unless they've changed their policy, you have to pay for shipping when returning an Intel! No FanBoyism here at all, simply the way it is!

Russ

 

he explained his self well indeed about the shipping process it's payed both ways and insured for the value of the Cpu he set my value at $279 even though. I did'nt pay that most for try by $120 dollar less than that.I he's give me the cost when they first came out on the market and Russ I don't the techs and Engineers said that who you talked to on the thread this guy mentioned about people Oc'ing adding pass there limits. I think gonna listen to the guy works with then 8 hours at day 5 days a week instead and don't push the envelope and don't burn the mail. i got 3939ghz stable at 1.392v good enough and far enough for me he also recommed on AM3 boards with these chips 1333 is the best speed to use with these chips. I'm just going by what the man said he asked what. I use to tell my temps cpu & cores. I said Everest and he said they use that there as well. I want you to be real sure about them volts Russ and have your ducks in a row we all know high volts bring more heat so does clock speed with lower volts. I'm just looking out for you!

 

Will,
I know all that, but their forum is a technical forum for people like us that know what we are doing when they overclock. They have people there, who work for AMD that moderate the Forum, and 1.50v is what they said. I have no heat issues, my CPU is stable, I'm .072v over 1.40v and I'm not concerned! I do appreciate you looking out for me though. I let it get good and warm in here today, at 28-29C, I'm idling at 33C. I still can't make it hit over 48C. In real world use I've yet to see anything over 41-42C. Like I said, I'm unconcerned about 72 thousandths of a volt, especially when a lot of people on the forum are running higher volts than that!

Thanks Again,
Russ

 

This video makes water cooling appear really easy. I suppose it is, but darn it! Why the frick does it have to be so expensive. I Lol'd about the HDD cooling. All of my drives average 32-34C, which is frigid if you ask me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=We9xGpP1RWw

 

Oman7,
You do realize that the video is almost 4 years old, don't you? LOL!! most of the stuff they show, is horribly outdated and obsolete. Don't worry about the hard drive temps too much. Mine run in the mid to high 30s, and I'm still more than 25C away from the maximum temperature of 65C, according to WD!

Russ

 

I suppose its a bit outdated. But hey, its cool and informative to watch vids like these. Here is another. Thanks to this guy, I'll NEVER run colored/dyed coolants in my rigs! Apparently it began to coagulate!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7DmW1UEGTc&NR=1

 

Oman7,
Would you like the list of all his mistakes, Categorically or Numerically? He made a bunch of major boo-Boos with that one! lOL!!

Russ

 

umm...Numerically! LOL! Kidding. Something he did wrong, caused it to coagulate?

 

I can't say for sure in that case but some of the coolants/dyes are known to break down over time.

 

Hmm. He seems to recommend another fluid now. As well as Distilled water. Man...I'd sure hate to have a leak from one of those systems. The mess would no doubt take hours to clean up Although a high pressure air compressor could make quick work of most of it I definitely ain't starting an endeavor like that, until I get my own place again. If a mess were to get out of hand here, I shudder at the thought. Though a drain pan would probably be a smart idea. This room's so cramped, I don't start anything extreme though Kind of hard to get my own place, when I work part time. And nobodies hiring right now. Sucks to be me. I suppose I get by though LOL!

 

Oman7,
I think the goop he's getting is from some anti leak stuff in the coolant. With all the leaks he has, it makes sense, as it wasn't that old. Water soluble dyes don't clump up like that. From what I see, he has a bunch of sub standard parts to begin with. Look at the leakage at the CPU cooler alone. Half of the catch tray is full of goop. Both GPU coolers appear to be leaking from the surface as well. The plastic fittings are crap, and break real easy because they are brittle. The smooth tubing, and the zip ties he used are poor! The line to the memory cooler is kinked, and should have been looped, and the place he first showed the leak (where the three zip ties are), should have been looped as well. Most of it I would throw in the trash!

I know a thing or three about it after 40 years of working with tubings and fittings like that. All the Xray film processors use the same type of components, and some of them are heated (Dev), and very caustic, so you don't want any leaks.

A lot of the X-Ray equipment like Full motion X-Rays, CT Scans, and MRI's are water cooled, what with all the microprocessors in them. We mount the Rads, on a custom air inlet designed for them, to the AC, to keep down the noise.

Russ

 

well when i sent my E8400 back with heat issues intel paid for the shipping back to them i sent it out on a Wednesday and got a new one that friday. yea they wanted the cooler with it, but why would you want a crappy cooler that you know is now good for what we do with the CPU's im sure running a E8400 at stock 3.0ghz the stock cooler is fine. but not OC'ing to 3.8gh+...

 

Rob,
I can't answer that one! All I can say is that I had to pay shipping for both the Pentium D-940 and the E6750 when they were RMA'd. The Pentium D was over three years ago and the E6750 was about 15 months ago. Both had to be shipped in the original box, with the cooler! They only paid the shipping back to me!

Russ

 

dont get me wrong intel did want it in the original box and with the cooler. with having 3 different intel cpu's, i have all 3 new intel coolers that have never been used, and wont by me, unless i find a good enough reason to. great for a emergency back up situation. i still have a arctic freezer7 sitting on the cabinet for a good quality back up.

i honestly think intel didnt even look at my E8400 like they said the would, they just shipped me a new one. and it has been chuggin along now for 2 years running steady at 3.6ghz with no shows of wearing down.

 

So I received some of my pc today! The case PSU CPU cooler and MOBO its like being a kid at christmas. Alas only part of the whole is here so I was checking out this ECO cooler and was wondering if the little white square on the copper base is thermal paste which would mean I wouldn't need to buy some? Or would it be best since I imagine CPU's are of different sizes which would possibly require adding more paste to the existing square. I Don't have the CPU yet so I can't compare squares. That is ok course assuming that it is thermal paste in the first place