On Sat, 2 Oct 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Hi,
>Just in case anyone was following my little saga here, I set up my case
>and motherboard in the following fashion and it seems to be cooling very
>well:
>
You should reverse one of these fans to produce cross-case airflow.
>.-------------------------------------------------------.
>| .--.| <- CASE
>|.--. .-------.---------.-------------. |F ||
>||F | | .--|--. F .--|--. | |A ||
>||A | | |CPU 0| A |CPU 1| | |N ||
>||N | | | | | N | | | | |->||
>||<-| | `--|--' `--|--' | `--'|
>|`--' | `---------' | |
>
>
>I placed a rather large fan on top of CPU0 and CPU1 so that each CPU gets
>1/2 of the fan. The fan mounted on the back of the case sucks air out, as
>well as the fan mounted on the front of the case. I took the stock
>I left the machine going all last night running two SETI@HOME clients,
>about 14 hours total. When I came back, turned the monitor on, I was
>pleasantly surpised to see no lockups. I shut down the box and rebooted.
>I went into the BIOS and saw that all critical parts of the board where
>under 100F! The motherboard was 93F, and both CPUs were 96F. Not
>bad, considering before this I was running 105F CPUs and 98F motherboard.
It will be substantially cooler if you pull cool air INTO the case from
the front, and suck air OUT the back.
Bit its great that it is working as good as it is in the current
configuration.
Chipper
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