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[Ototero]

Thanks,

The fan comes coated with stuff ready to stick to the chip. Would you suggest stripping that gunk off and using Artic Silver 5 ??

[rrcrain]

recently read an article comparing various heatsink compounds on Dan's Data

http://www.dansdata.com/

Interesting review. His tests did show a difference between the cheap versus high end compounds, but not that much... not near what you should be seeing for what we pay for the high end stuff. Use a good compound, don't use to much of it, and perhaps polish the base of the heat sink until its mirror smooth. And then use the money you saved by not paying for the most expensive heatsink compound and buy a bottle of decent wine.

Here's a link to the article:

http://www.dansdata.com/goop.htm

[Jeff]

Why would you think my isp is cat.com?

[Empty_5oul]

personally i cant see it making a differnece. you are meant to use the thermal pads f you are gonna keep changing heatsink but paste if your gonna keep it. use whatever paste, if some comes free then try that it only provides quick heat transfer between the heatsink and processor, as long as there is a connection and it is not dry there should be no problem

[AMDave]

I like the shape and stats of the fan rrcrain is using.
I also like the fact that they reduced its weight by 18grams.
I don't know why, though. It wouldn't fit in a laptop so the I hope they reduced the price as the real benefit would be in the manufacturing cost.

Today it was 36 degrees Centigrade, ambient temperature.
In my garage it was 38 degrees C.
Summer has not really started yet.
When the ambient temperature hits 46 C my garage will be at 48 to 49 C.

I left the ceiling hatch open one day (before we completed the insulation and the laser-temp-meter showed 51 C in the garage and 72 C on the lower side of the roof tiles !!! No bullsh*t.

vaughan should be able to vouch for this (in-spite of his more favourable global latitude...LOL) ... when you guys talk fans we're out looking for refridgeration units. I don't have any. I can't get one for each PC & there's no way I am going to aircondition the whole garage for the whole summer to pull the temp down from an avg 42 to 32 centigrade !

I do however have a 2nd hand vertical freezer sitting in my garage waiting for me to figure out how I can get 3 or 4 machines in there & cool it without getting moisture build up. Only 25% of the cooling element is ok so it only freezes now after about 10 days without being opened. I ran it a while ago for a big family function we had just to keep the food cool until it was served. The idea struck me so I kept it a bit longer (read "creative pipe-dream"). I can't seem to think of a way to extract the moisture without losing the temperature gradient. If I can't come up with any ideas It's on its way to the recyclers next weekend and I'll be back to running nights only again in about 1 month

[Ototero]

Dave,

Have you thought about water cooling your chips? There are quite a few kits around now.

Then you could throw the old fridge and make room for some beers.
;)

[Beerknurd]

ALWAYS make room for beer........

[Empty_5oul]

if you get a cooling system and have a spacious case you can store beers in the case aswell :P.

i have found http://www.arctic-cooling.com/ to be a good company for CPU's.

[AMDave]

Ah. You assume too much grasshopper !
I do have a beer fridge.
As does every other self repecting Aussie. :D
It is a shame that there is too much residue in even the finest ale to use it for coolant. To combine 2 loves would have been very impressive

I was very impressed by the performance of the Zalman Resoirator:
http://www.crazypc.com/Merchant2/mer...ct_Code=938500
(note for vaughan - reviewed in last months APCMag)

but you still need a cooler ambient temp to allow for heat exchange to take place.

[AMDave]

empty_5oul wins this contest.

...PC inside fridge
...beer inside the PC

Damn.
I'd like to try that.

So lateral thinking can be helped by lateral drinking