CPU Cooler fan mod?

[Phaihn]

Re: CPU Cooler fan mod?

Those are excellent temps.
What is the room ambient?

My gripe with cross flow fans is the lack of cooling on the VRM.
This violates the Intel design spec, which requires cooling for the VRM.

I bought an IR temp gun, just so I can monitor VRM temps on all the boards I service. Quite a nifty toy.. you shine it everywhere, and it tells you the temps.
My wife wanted to take it out for her Ghost Hunter night with the girls, but I said no. The last thing I need is for one of my nice toys/tools to get screwed up at a party.

If you run boards with heat pipe cooling to the VRM, i.e. Gigabyte UD3 boards, the downdraft becomes a non-issue.

Uh not sure i dont have thermonitor in here but it was realy cold when i woke up this morning.

uh VRM that space around the CPU with all the caps?
i have a fan blowing air into my room and it start cooling down at night time.

[Phaihn]

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[Phaihn]

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Wont be doing much more glue gunning till i get a new one mine blew up.

[370forlife]

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I use to have a cheap hot glue gun, until the wires inside the handle shorted out. That was a experience.

Now I just have a lot hotter, larger Northern Tools hot glue gun, still a cheapie but at least the wires inside this one are thicker and shielded.

[Phaihn]

Re: CPU Cooler fan mod?

I use to have a cheap hot glue gun, until the wires inside the handle shorted out. That was a experience.

Now I just have a lot hotter, larger Northern Tools hot glue gun, still a cheapie but at least the wires inside this one are thicker and shielded.

thats what happend to mine.

[ratdude747]

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i had to re-solder one in my shop class. the heater core was shoved into that stanley pretty tight. it had micro-crimps gone bad and un-solderable thin solid wire between the core and the wall cord. i direct-wired it to the paddles on the core and since i was too lazy to go fing eletrical tape, i used duct tape to insulate my joints. the beast still works after the re-wire.

[Phaihn]

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Its not even worth the effert i got it at the dollar store i think its time to get a real one. and a soldering iron.

[Phaihn]

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Mod updated. got a new glue gun.

[ratdude747]

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time for my cooler mod

i had an old athlon base out of a compaq presario 5000. it was wide but short, perfect for a dell dimension L933r. but i had to make the fan blow out to match the air tunnel, and when i did, the fan mounts in the mille of the edget cought the fan. so, i removed the short edge fin, removed those mount fins in the center edge, and fanned out the rest in the middle, like that zalman cooler with the external fan. pics:



original cross-section of extrusion. see the screw-slots are higher than the rest? thats what was catching the fan.



what i did to fix the issue



another view of my handywork



what it looks like with a fan on.

i havent tested the cpu with this on. we will see...

[Phaihn]

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nice