Hey,
I've just built a new system (my first) and was thinking about aftermarket cooling for it. My build includes:
-Phenom X4 920
-Gigabyte MA790X-UD4 Motherboard
-Patriot Xtreme - 8Gb (4x2Gb) DDR2 1066
-Sapphire ATI Radeon 4870
-Coolermaster Mystique Mid-Tower
The system runs very well for day-to-day things, but for intense gaming and long-run numerical algorithms (the latter I do more often than the former) it gets very hot with the stock setup. I was running Sins of a Solar Empire on it and it shut-down after about 1.5 hours because the system temperatures were too high, probably because of the additional GPU heat. The case it adequate for cooling; however, the front fan is a covered by the internal 5.25 drive ports so it's current effectiveness is questionable.
A picture of the current CPU setup:
I've modified the BIOS to run both case fans and the CPU fan at maximum always (not very loud still) and I've bench-marked my system temperatures using a Monte Carlo simulation mpi'd on all 4 cores to 100%.
CPU GPU
System-Start: 41 C 45 C
Idle for 10min: 43 C 54 C
CPU 100% (no GPU) for 20min: 60 C 54 C
The case fans run at 1100 & 1300 RPM while the CPU fan is at 3100 RPM. My thoughts were getting higher CFM case fans and an aftermarket CPU cooler. I also thought it might be useful to modify the side vent on my case to mount an inward blowing 80mm fan (right above the CPU). Ideally, I'd like to get the temperatures down 8-10C on the CPU.
I'm limited in CPU heat-sink space by the RAM so my dimensions for expansion are 100mm X 100mm X 150mm for the heat sink, and any heatsink larger than 120mm would not allow me to mount a side 80mm fan.
Does anyone have any useful experience/suggestions on how to reduce the temperatures? Or any product ideas that would help?
I've just built a new system (my first) and was thinking about aftermarket cooling for it. My build includes:
-Phenom X4 920
-Gigabyte MA790X-UD4 Motherboard
-Patriot Xtreme - 8Gb (4x2Gb) DDR2 1066
-Sapphire ATI Radeon 4870
-Coolermaster Mystique Mid-Tower
The system runs very well for day-to-day things, but for intense gaming and long-run numerical algorithms (the latter I do more often than the former) it gets very hot with the stock setup. I was running Sins of a Solar Empire on it and it shut-down after about 1.5 hours because the system temperatures were too high, probably because of the additional GPU heat. The case it adequate for cooling; however, the front fan is a covered by the internal 5.25 drive ports so it's current effectiveness is questionable.
A picture of the current CPU setup:
I've modified the BIOS to run both case fans and the CPU fan at maximum always (not very loud still) and I've bench-marked my system temperatures using a Monte Carlo simulation mpi'd on all 4 cores to 100%.
CPU GPU
System-Start: 41 C 45 C
Idle for 10min: 43 C 54 C
CPU 100% (no GPU) for 20min: 60 C 54 C
The case fans run at 1100 & 1300 RPM while the CPU fan is at 3100 RPM. My thoughts were getting higher CFM case fans and an aftermarket CPU cooler. I also thought it might be useful to modify the side vent on my case to mount an inward blowing 80mm fan (right above the CPU). Ideally, I'd like to get the temperatures down 8-10C on the CPU.
I'm limited in CPU heat-sink space by the RAM so my dimensions for expansion are 100mm X 100mm X 150mm for the heat sink, and any heatsink larger than 120mm would not allow me to mount a side 80mm fan.
Does anyone have any useful experience/suggestions on how to reduce the temperatures? Or any product ideas that would help?