- Jan 24, 2002
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I just upgraded my old P2 333 to an Athlon XP 1600+, ECS K7S5A, Thermal Take Silent Viking cooler, Q_Silent systems 300 W PSU, Palit GF3 ti200 and a Papst 80 mm Case fan.
I have major problems though. The system runs ok but its gets very warm. 35 Celsius in the case and 55-60 Celsius on the CPU (I dont have the Fahrenheit right here but I'll edit and post them when i get them. These temperatures I've read in the BIO btw not from some program. I used some cooling paste and I just dont know whats wrong. I have a feeling its the ventilation in the case thats not good enough. The case wasnt build for such warm processors so maybe the air intake isnt good enough???
Another thing is that despite all the "silent technology" its not quiet at all! Only thing thats not a silent piece of hardware is the cooler on the Video card but can that really make that big a difference can it? Whan can I do to both increase the cooling (does the cooling affect the performance of the machine btw?) and reduce the noise??? More fans in the case?? How do I do that?? Drill holes? I never tried building a PC before and all this cooling kinda caught me by surprise.
Help I'm lost!
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I have major problems though. The system runs ok but its gets very warm. 35 Celsius in the case and 55-60 Celsius on the CPU (I dont have the Fahrenheit right here but I'll edit and post them when i get them. These temperatures I've read in the BIO btw not from some program. I used some cooling paste and I just dont know whats wrong. I have a feeling its the ventilation in the case thats not good enough. The case wasnt build for such warm processors so maybe the air intake isnt good enough???
Another thing is that despite all the "silent technology" its not quiet at all! Only thing thats not a silent piece of hardware is the cooler on the Video card but can that really make that big a difference can it? Whan can I do to both increase the cooling (does the cooling affect the performance of the machine btw?) and reduce the noise??? More fans in the case?? How do I do that?? Drill holes? I never tried building a PC before and all this cooling kinda caught me by surprise.
Help I'm lost!
Lort