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More info?)
"Mark Hittinger" <bugs@pu.net> wrote in message news:uKSdncW7QeavEebfRVn-sQ@comcast.com...
> Rob writes:
>>Mark, how do the extra fans hook up inside? Sounds like a good idea
>>to have extra fans.
>
> What I am doing is buying whats called "PC case fan" (dell #A0389865) and
> putting it in an unused slot (where there is not a PCI connector anyhow)
> in the back.
I can't find a picture of that fan. Is it a real PCI slot fan, something
along the lines of what is pictured here?
http://www.mikhailtech.com/articles/cooling/pciroundup/
> I don't know that there is much that we can really do for the cpu but it
> does bother me when the disks run hot. A second case fan in the box is
> only able to pull the average hard drive temperature down to 111F - half
> the "gain" of the first fan.
>
> When number crunching is going on with the 4700 cpu (so that its heat goes
> to the max) the average hard drive temperature will run to 129F even with
> two fans in the case.
Normally I would expect to see the highest HD temp when said HD is
under heavy load for awhile, such as when continuously running a HD
benchmarking program. When running a CPU benchmarking program
(preferably a pure math one as opposed to one that taxes main memory
and/or graphics card) and no other apps to speak of, I would expect
the drives to be mostly idle and significantly below their peak temps.
A reversed CPU fan changes the equation a bit, but in any case, have
you checked each HD temp while benchmarking it?
BTW, what CPU and graphics solution?