My Hardware Adventures

[Jeremy]

I'm bringing my topic from SPCR over here for anyone to comment, suggest or provide positive criticism. The original topic is located here: Linky

My stock heatsink cowards in the shadow of the mighty Ninja!

Top view:

The Scythe Ninja installed (which was very easy on my S939).

The High-Riser installed (which was part of the hitch I mentioned).

This is Mr. Hitch... due to the Scythe's size, both aluminum heatsinks make contact.

Zxian suggested that since it uses heatpipes I could bend it a little to compensate for that.

There's no way I could fit a 4cm fan on it since my North Bridge idles at 46C.

As a side-effect I was unable to properly seat the High-Riser, but I might be able to adjust

this once I bend the aluminum.

Once my system is back up and running, you can see more of how squeezed in it is

and how crooked (unevenly) the seating is.

Slightly closer and a different angle.

With both heatsinks running fanless, my temperatures are as follows:

Idle/Load

CPU - 38/47

GPU - 45/64

North Bridge - 45/49

I ran a GPU benchmark for 5 hours to get full load.

As always comments, suggestions, and positive criticism is welcome from all.

Cheers all,

Jeremy

Edited February 15, 2007 by Jeremy

[DigeratiPrime]

nice pics + hardware. Impressive temps for a passive cooled CPU but what is the room temperature?

Looks like powerful hardware but as for achieving a silent pc, and you'll hate me for saying this, I prefer to just buy a Shuttle XPC

[Jeremy]

Yes, the CPU and North Bridge are both passively cooled at the moment. Only my GPU has a NV Silencer on it, which I can hear.

[ripken204]

but the nv silencer is still extremely silent compared to the stock heatsinkf or the card...

Edited February 19, 2007 by ripken204

[Jeremy]

but thenv silencer is still extremely silent compared to the stock heatsinkf or the card...

You'd think so, but the stock CPU heatsink fan is much quieter than the NV5. And cards themselves are silent, btw.

[Jeremy]

Hey guys, all is well. I put rubber things between my case and the rear fan and picked up a new

Vantec Iceberg 4 Pro, which is technically a VGA cooler but with some modding it can be a great

chipset cooler. For now I used two brackets it came with to put the Iceberg CCB-A1C back on.

North Bridge is 45C again... as opposed to 75C.

Here are two pics comparing the two:

Here's a pic of the VI4Pro without the top cover on. I'll be cutting off the two ends, polishing the

edges and slightly widening the two smaller holes closest to the fan to allow it fit on my chipset

properly. That'll be fun.

[Jeremy]

I decided to pick up one of my older hardware-based projects today and get it near completion. The system specs are somewhat unknown as of yet since I have been tinkering inside the case more than I have the OS.

When I first turned the PC on the PSU sounded literally like a miniature lawnmower. I figured as it is such an old system which I won't be doing anything intensive with, I shouldn't have any heat problems. I decided to remove the aged lawnmower fan from the PSU. First I took the cover off. For anyone whose never seen the inside of an old PSU, enjoy. Mind the dust and gunk.

Another angle for your viewing pleasure.

Some dust/gunk cleaned off, fan removed.

The workings of the PC once everything is set up. Some elastics, cablegami and an unusual power connector which I might fit in place with some foam or something later.

I knew this wouldn't reduce any noise as the HDD is so old (although it's not that noisy), but I wanted to give it a comfy spot to live inside the box in return for its loyalty to my fiancee's mother in the past years.

I likely won't put a fan in the front where I cut out the grill, but if I have some spare change and am feeling ambitious, I might put a window in the side panel as well as the front... but not before putting some sort of rubber over the edges.

Well, that's all for tonight. My lips taste like metal and my hands are dry, rough and worn out from using pliers, tin snips and the dremel. Cheers.

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