Hello John
well my bay fans blow out hot air.. so theyre not really doing anything
i was planning on mounting a 80mm fan on the back to blow out and somehow
reverse the front fans to blow in.
unfortunely it would also appear the power supply isnt enough to power my
improved system. upon looking around for new power supplies i decided it was
best to just get a whole new case as ill basically be getting the case for
free having paid for the power supply.. so this is what im getting is this
case
http://www.newegg.com/app/viewProductDesc.asp?description=11-156-140&depa=0
pretty good deal ay? yeah i really didnt want anything flashy but it was the
only decent priced one with a 420w power supply. anyways once i get it ill
see where i am with needing more fans, possibly replacing the ide cables
with rounded ones and remounting the processor with some artic silver
instead of the generic stuff tcwo gave me.
thank you very much for your help
Matt

>From: John Sproule <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] Video Card Problems?
>Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 10:00:56 -0400
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>The fan that comes with that Zalman flower heatsink can be run at one of
>two
>speeds using the little fan mate speed controller that is attached to it.
>I
>think that you have yours currently set at the low speed setting.  Change
>it
>to the higher speed setting and see if this helps.  This is also a very
>large and heavy heatsink, so it will be important to make sure that you
>have
>it properly mounted, especially in a tower case, so that the weight of the
>heatsink isn't causing it to tip slightly and make only partial contact
>with
>the CPU's core.
>
>http://www.zalman.co.kr/eng/product/view.asp?idx=33&code=005009010
>
>The XP3000+ should be running on a fsb of 166 (sometimes shown as
>2x166=333), and the processor's actual core speed is 2.16GHz.
>
>The Radeon 9700 Pro and up cards tend to have slightly wimpy heatsinks
>compared to their heat output.  While they are indeed cooler than
>comparable
>Nvidia graphics chips, they really could have gone a with a bit beefier
>heatsink.  What this means is that in a case that tends to build up heat,
>the high end Radeons can overheat.  You mentioned in the forum you linked
>to
>that you might have your computer case in a cabinet like enclosure, which
>makes me wonder if the inside of your case is getting warm and whether this
>is contributing to overheating of the CPU and/or graphics card.
>
>I can't tell what that drive bay fan system does.  Does it actually draw in
>fresh air or does it just blow air onto your drives?  In any case, it
>doesn't look like it really will direct much air onto your critical hot
>components, the CPU and graphics card.
>
>Does your case have an exhaust fan on the back other than the one built
>into
>the power supply?
>
>John Sproule
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Matthew Butler" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Sunday, May 23, 2004 5:51 PM
>Subject: [PCBUILD] Video Card Problems?
>
>
> > A few other people say it may have been an overheating problem so i
>installed a program called speedfan and here are those results
>http://www.emuxhaven.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=4679&st=15&#entry56317
>
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