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- Mon Mar 23, 2009 8:58 pm
- Forum: Newcomers Briefing Room
- Topic: Trouble keeping PC cool while staying quiet
- Replies: 20
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Have you had a chance to play with any of the ducts that were suggested in the topics above ? You could try putting a piece of cardboard like the drawing below between the top of the PCB of the bottom card and the Accelero of the top card, to force the air to go trhough the Accelero before exiting ...
- Mon Mar 23, 2009 10:19 am
- Forum: Newcomers Briefing Room
- Topic: Trouble keeping PC cool while staying quiet
- Replies: 20
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Have you had a chance to play with any of the ducts that were suggested in the topics above ? You could try putting a piece of cardboard like the drawing below between the top of the PCB of the bottom card and the Accelero of the top card, to force the air to go trhough the Accelero before exiting ...
- Sun Mar 22, 2009 10:06 pm
- Forum: Newcomers Briefing Room
- Topic: Trouble keeping PC cool while staying quiet
- Replies: 20
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Rear tri-cool *almost* did it. Survived Furmark a lot longer than it had previously. Temperature on the GPU cores had levelled out at 71C -- perhaps it's not the GPU cores after all ... Without actually purchasing turbo modules, any way to tell if they'd help? I'm thinking it might be the RAM or Vre...
- Tue Mar 17, 2009 7:51 pm
- Forum: Cases and Damping
- Topic: Build case for ITX motherboard?
- Replies: 6
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http://www.mini-box.com/M300-Enclosure-w-Bootable-CF-Reader_2 http://resources.mini-box.com/online/ENC-M300/moreimages/image1.jpg I have the shorter version of this case, with the LCD front. The fan is loud, and there isnt' all that much space inside. It does hold 2x 2.5" HDD's (or one 3.5" HDD) th...
- Tue Mar 17, 2009 6:44 pm
- Forum: Newcomers Briefing Room
- Topic: Trouble keeping PC cool while staying quiet
- Replies: 20
- Views: 11899
Hope this helps some! Feel free to add MSPaint modifications to pictures to clarify things: http://insta.angryhosting.com/Desktop/P3300028.JPG http://insta.angryhosting.com/Desktop/P3300030.JPG http://insta.angryhosting.com/Desktop/P3300031.JPG http://insta.angryhosting.com/Desktop/P3300032.JPG http...
- Tue Mar 17, 2009 9:31 am
- Forum: Newcomers Briefing Room
- Topic: Trouble keeping PC cool while staying quiet
- Replies: 20
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I was hoping I could use the PSU to exhaust my hot air :( My CPU cooler has the Noctua blowing up from the bottom into the bottom of the PSU -- it has to be that way thanks to Socket AM2. I'll stuff a Tri-Cool in there. Most of them aren't quiet enough for me. I think the problem though is that I ca...
- Tue Mar 17, 2009 6:00 am
- Forum: Newcomers Briefing Room
- Topic: Trouble keeping PC cool while staying quiet
- Replies: 20
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Trouble keeping PC cool while staying quiet
:!: Newbie alert :!: Specs: Biostar TA790GX AM2 motherboard Athlon X2 Black Edition @ 3.2GHz Xigmatek S1284EE cooler w/ P12-1300 Noctua 2x2GB Kingston DDR2-800 VelociRaptor w/ "heatsink" removed 2x MSI 4850 video cards w/ Accelero S1 rev2 coolers Seasonic S12 430W PSU Antec Solo w/ 2x B9-1600 Noctua...