cooling and cpus

[yazeed1906]

are there any dangers to having too much cooling for your cpu...(i.e..all the fans big and small pointed to the cpu and heatsink)???

[Spawn-Inc]

well with fans i don't think you could ever get to much cooling, just make sure you have some form of exhaust other wise its kind of like a fan blowing against another fan. are you having heating issues or you want to just cool it as much as possible to oc it higher?

[Quakken]

With conventional methods, I would say it is impossible to get your cpu too cold. Sure, you could pour liquid nitrogen all over it, or use dry ice and it could possibly cool it too much (still skeptical though) but with fans, i would say you can try your darnedest to cool that rocket of a cpu.

But, if you point all of your fans at the cpu, your other things such as your video card and hard drives won't be cooled, and you will have troubles.

[D1337]

Make it as cold as possible, just make sure there isnt any condensation or liquid from it on the cpu.

[crenn]

Make it as cold as possible, just make sure there isnt any condensation or liquid from it on the cpu.

That's why dry ice is a good method.

[b4i7]

too many fans will disrupt the airflow and cause air to sit in one place and heat up....so instead the fans are helping things heat instead of cool

[yazeed1906]

too many fans will disrupt the airflow and cause air to sit in one place and heat up....so instead the fans are helping things heat instead of cool

wow, i didn't know that...good tips from everyone...thanks

[Crazy Buddhist]

I want to put a pic of my new Noctua cooler on this thread "in situ" but my camera needs charging. This thing performs better than cheap water cooling systems. It's knocked 6 degrees off my CPU over stock and after running superPi for half an hour CPU temp had risen from 39 degrees C to 42 degrees C .. cooking lol and thats with with HT bumped up 11% so instead of running at 2.2G Im running the CPU at 2.42 (x2).

You can't have too much aircooling. You can have badly designed air cooling. Think about how the air will flow around the various areas of the case and structure your cooling solution to help it do so.

[Drew]

I was reading up on phase change cooling, and the same question came up there.

The concensus was that too much is never enough (they even had a thread on 'frosty' pics... yup, they were cooling them below zero!).

The only time they think a problem would be encountered would be getting towards Absolute Zero (if I remember from school correctly, 0 degrees Kelvin or -276 Degrees C).

Feel free to put me right :D

[Crazy Buddhist]

The concensus was that too much is never enough (they even had a thread on 'frosty' pics... yup, they were cooling them below zero!).

The more you cool your CPU the longer it will live at any given speed. And hence the more cooling you have the more you can potentially overclock without damaging your system.

Practically speaking this is pretty much irrelevant unless you are seriously tweaking/freaking your system for some reason. As long as you are generally operating at the lower end of the given CPU recommended temperatures for your particular chip, its all going to be fine and dandy.

[D1337]

too many fans will disrupt the airflow and cause air to sit in one place and heat up....so instead the fans are helping things heat instead of cool

depends on how you position them, having 10 fans on everyside wont do jack.
having 10 in the front pushing and 10 in the back pulling is fine, as long as you never cross fans airflows (beam shape rather then a line i assume)that are doing the same operation, pulling/pushing you wont have a problem.

[solja]

depends on how you position them, having 10 fans on everyside wont do jack.
having 10 in the front pushing and 10 in the back pulling is fine, as long as you never cross fans airflows (beam shape rather then a line i assume)that are doing the same operation, pulling/pushing you wont have a problem.

I dont mean to hijack this thread but I find it pointless to start a new one when the subject is the same....

I was wondering if the following fan setup would be ok......

http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p54/atbsolja/airflow.jpg

also remember their is an intake on the side panel

font intake: 120mm
bottom intake: 80mm
side intake: 120mm

top exhaust: 80mm
back exhaust #1: 120mm
back exhaust #2: pci slot fan

[D1337]

no. move the top fan to the left slightly, to compensate for the other fan blowing through its path. bottom rea could be moved up slightly too, since heat rises and to compensate for the fan blowing it upwards.

[calumc]

well from the looks of it your fan placements have been designed by professionals so id say it would be ok

[solja]

bottom rea could be moved up slightly too, since heat rises and to compensate for the fan blowing it upwards.


if you mean bottom rear then its there soley for the purpose of moving that hot air from under a big 8800gts since hot air does tend to build up there if you dont have a pci slot fan :)