Started Trying To Cool

[Duffman]

ok well i realized that my idle temps on my computer where a little high and my cpu was near 60 on load so i decided to cool. Im starting with cables and heres what i did, i didn't wanna spen hours doing this so im only measuring my idle temps

i turned my floppy cable into a rounded one with a knife and some duct tape and while it did not affect my cpu or motherboard there are still 5 more cables or so..... but the point is before both my hds were at 42C but after hd1 went to 35c and hd0 went down to 30C, it seemed a little drastic but now im gonna do the other cables any thoughts? advice?

[Mr. Elmo]

go to bestbuy and grab yourself some fans....there really no otehr way to cool your comp.

i dont get how round cables cool your comp though

[Spicker]

Originally posted by Mr. Elmo@8 January 2004 - 03:07
go to bestbuy and grab yourself some fans....there really no otehr way to cool your comp.

i dont get how round cables cool your comp though

yea they dunt cool ur computer but they are thin....so they dunt come in the way of any airflow....

so they give better airflow

[Duffman]

well ill goto bestbuy someday but if doing stuff with household items gets it cool why spend money, maybe my cable jungle is preventing airflow causeing the heat?

[james_bond_rulez]

wouldn't it be nice if they made a lil window on the case casing in case ur playing quake 3 or something u open the lil window and watch the temp drop!!!

no additional hardware needed

[Mr. Elmo]

unless you have a really tiny case, i dont thinkg the cables are going to matter that much (meaning it matter, but not much) fans are really cheap these days...you can get 2 for under $15

oh yea, at james, they have....and its called hte side panel

[james_bond_rulez]

omg i swear that idea was original...

didn't know they even existed lol

[Duffman]

well next time i goto bestbuy im gonna get fans but eventually i gotta clean the mess up anyway ill post back later and well see how much a difference it makes

[james_bond_rulez]

i bought a really expensive fan 30 dollars canadian

but it's a smart fan, if temp goes up fan goes faster

but it helped my computer to stay 10 degrees cooler

[Duffman]

well ill buy one like that