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More info?)
Peter R. Fletcher wrote:
> On Sun, 11 Jul 2004 19:00:48 GMT, Kristi <a@b.net> wrote:
>
>>Peter R. Fletcher wrote:
>>> My son has ben having problems which seem to result from his (elderly)
>>> Radeon 7500 video card overheating under the stress of gameplaying,
>>> particularly when the ambient temperature is elevated. CPU
>>> temperatures seem to be OK. Does anyone have a recommendation for a
>>> new card which would offer reasonable performance and will run cool in
>>> a Shuttle - £100-200 price range - or any other thoughts to reduce the
>>> chance of these problems recurring.
>>>
>>> Please respond to the Newsgroup, so that others may benefit from the exchange.
>>> Peter R. Fletcher
>>
>>If the card itself is satisfactory, I would look to adding fans to force
>>more air through the case.
>>hth
>>Kristi
>
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> Any specific makes/models?
>
> Please respond to the Newsgroup, so that others may benefit from the exchange.
> Peter R. Fletcher
I do not have any experience with those small cases. I just looked it up
and I guess what I would be inclined to do is cut a 120mm hole in the top
and mount a 120mm fan on top of the case blowing in - be sure to put a
filter of some sort on the outside of the fan which you will need to clean
occasionally. BestByte.net would be a good place to look. Get a fan speed
controller so you can adjust the amount of noise you can tollerate. I have
a setup like that on the side of my mid-tower case. Ugly but damn
effective. Case/PS/CPU has been running 36/39/44C this summer - the room
is usually 80F. I do not have a probe on the video card - it's in my fish
tank monitoring that.
This is probably a good time to vacuum out the insides of the case. and
the fan(s) on the PS/case
Also check the fan and heatsink on the video card. If you never did so, I
would pull the card and pull the HS off the card and clean off the old heat
grease and replace it with ArcticSilver3. If it does not have a fan as
part of the heatsink, look at bestbyte and pick one up that will fit that
card.
Just to commiserate with you, I just picked up a used GeF4Ti4200 and
noticed that it definitely gets warm so I have it on my list to get a new
(better) heatsink&fan for it before I OC it.
Fans are much guesswork. Avoid the Deltas unless you like a jet aircraft
in your room sound. Ball bearing fans will last longer... Expensive fans
are not necessarily better for your purpose than $10 fans. Avoid sleeve
bearings.
Adopt a bit of an experimenter's attitude
😱) and go for it!!!!!
hth
Kristi (the sig is a lie - it will run at 400, but I am runing it at 333 at
the moment!)(OCing is a great wintertime sport!!!)
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Shuttle AN35N Ultra, XP2600Bart(11.5x400), 512mb, GeF4Ti4200, WinXPproSP1.9
Defragger Raxco PerfectDisk6 rocks! fast! (I do not work for Raxco)
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