Gaming Rigs

[Steamer]

Hmm... My system is always perfectly cool, although it does get more dust build up since the fan flip. So I get what your saying is that I am putting to much of a vacum on the CPU and robing airflow. I know the hot air is getting recylced threw but for some reason it does not increase my temps at all.... (weird, I know) It didnt seem resoanable that the fan was fliped the other way and I though it would decrease air flow... Apperently I was horribly mis understood. Why are my temps not any different idle or load with the fan flip the default way? The vortex doesn't seem to be doing anything to lower temps, then again, I could have botched something and just read them all screwed up. Thanks for the advice, Ill test the temps again the way it is now, then flip and see my results as the last test I did seemed to provide no decrease in temperatures.

OH, and the speaker are GREAT, well, were until I blew them lmfao.... That extra 15 inch sub sure did push out pretty damn good off the box lmfao, but then my daughter was playing under the desk and put the wires together without me noticing... lol... I haven't done another stupid thing like that since lol.

Chipset/Ram/Internal - Good temps, dont know exact but I can tell there all good.

HDD'S - All ~ 31c

GPU - 50c

CPU-
1 - 39c
2 - 37c
3 - 40c
4 - 37c

Going to turn the rear fan around and check again after boot.

[Steamer]

Holy hell did I mis interpret the last test I did wrong. Thank you very very much ZERO, Didn't know what I did could effect the temps so much. 2-3c decrease in all temps and airflow seems to be more even. The Individual core temps even seem to be more stable.

Temp atm.

Chipset/Ram/Interanl - Can feel a slight difference in cooling after a burn and idle.

HDD's All ~ 29c-30c

GPU - ~ 45c

CPU-
1 - 37c
2 - 35c
3 - 37c
4 - 35c

All ambient temps are down as well. No difference in house temp. All by turning a fan... XD

As for what was apparent I relized....

3) A system should always try to achieve a vacuum or at minimum stabilized pressure but never suction
5) Redirection and focus fans should be used to adjust the main pressure channels strength, position and heat levels; ducts can be used in rare cases
7) Ensure that internal redirection and focus fans do not create any recirculation spirals

I wonder.... I could probably OC my GC even a bit higher for some benches before I return them back to stock because of the fixed stupidity you pointed out to me lmao. I wont be so misjudging of incorrect circulation/vacum/pressure the next time around. What do you think about adding another 120mm fan were the provided clips are in front of the front air intake (basically doubling them up). Would pushing more air in threw the front intake be a bad idea or just no point? Some things I do on my PC use all available resources and it doesn't sound like a bad idea to add the fan but I dont know too much about fans and how they effect the entire system (as you probably already figured out lol).

After another test, temp rise slope is even better and far more even. Thanks a lot for the tip.

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Nvidia should really make a driver set that can dynamicaly lower the clock when not in use for gaming or applications like they do on the 200 series, I get it wouldn't be as great but it would scratch the need for 3rd party apps. Meh, guess they think its one less thing they have to worry about since its on old tech.

You seem to know an extential amount of information about many different types of tech and topics/happenings... what the hell do you do with all your free time? lmao...

[ZERO]

I think that focusing more airflow toward the ram would increase performance b/c they have limited cooling. That would do more than adding an extra intake. Remember that you want to take out more than you put in and that at minimum you should take in as much as you put out. If you were to spend any actual money though I would upgrade you cpu heat sink. Also if you wanted to really OC your gpu I would recommend upgrading all your fans to higher output ones first. My setup has a 22% gpu OC and a 17% memory OC all with stock heatsink and only air cooling on it.

[Satansof2]

man my case is a old one, it looks terrible lol, but my specs on it is:


CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5000+
RAM: Kingston DDR 800 2048.6 Mb
V/Card: NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT
DX Ver: 9.0c
Mainboard: M61SME-S2 Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
O/S: Microsoft Windows XP Professional SP3.0
HDD: 426 GB / 848 GB (49.7% Free)

[Steamer]

From my understanding of air flow (could be wrong), stacking another in front I would still be taking out more air but providing a bit more flow to the ram/chipset from the clip on fan.

Also the fans I have in my case are Antec Tri-Cool's (top compartment running all full powered, Lower compartment fans at medium) and the front intake is a high adjustable rpm rosewill. I was gonna get a reaper but the prices are pretty high. Here is a pic of the gpu clock (stable) before I fixed the cooling.

The specs from Antec on fans are.
RPM 1200 1600 2000
CFM 39 56 79
dBA 25 28 30

Rosewill Front Adjustable Intake.
Rosewill RFX120
43.5 to 87.5CFM at 1200-2200RPM

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From what I have read around, the 8800 GTS doesn't have that great of a memory overclock potential, but the shader and core can go pretty far. Something like a 27% max on core, and around the same on the shader.