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Answer» Quote from: Transfusion on September 20, 2011, 02:32:57 AM Not so cold, is it?Well, no, it's not. Some of your temps are PRETTY high. And, you have some clearly inaccurate readings there. Two temps of -128C are shown and then there's the Ambient temp of 0C. Just checked room temp Soybean...currently 71F. I'm not a big fan of air conditioning...Quote from: patio on September 20, 2011, 08:58:00 AM I'm not a big fan of air conditioning...Me either, it runs up my electric bill. So, I let room temps get up into the UPPER 70s, even 80, during the summer, as long as it doesn't become intolerable. This helped me keep my electric bill down during the scorching July this year. Right now, my room temp is 73.5F. The machine I'm running Win 7 on, which is just a Pentium IV, stays fairly cool as you can see in the attached image. [regaining space - attachment deleted by admin]Think i'll run CPUiD and do a comparison...only problem is Photobucket is really tickin me off now...can't grab the linx for my pics....any alternatives you use ? ? HWInfo provides the same exact Temp readings...Ooh, I can't wait for the winter to do some heavy overclocking-its 29 Celsius here in the morning, 24 C at night. (my house temperature) with the AC on. In winter it gets down to about 13 Celsius. Yes I need the AC on even at night-the fan in the first picture doesn't suffice. Quote from: patio on September 20, 2011, 09:15:58 AM Think i'll run CPUiD and do a comparison...only problem is Photobucket is really tickin me off now...can't grab the linx for my pics....any alternatives you use ? ? I use tinypic.com HWInfo32 does have the same readings-here are mine. The odd Chinese character means Fahrenheit. HWMonitor has the same readings, too. I don't think I need to get a case and then stick a leaf blower in there to lower my temps, do I? EDIT: OOOOYEAAAHHHH... I really want to do this-I have all the "materials" required: That's a cheap ANTEC Skeleton!Quote from: soybean on September 20, 2011, 08:40:10 AM 24C equals 75.2F, which is a fairly normal room temperature. How is that possible? Do you normally keep a room temperature down below 70F? Here in Bristol, England, Great Britain, my room temperature is a comfortable (but not stifling) 19.5 C. That's 67.1 in mediaeval degrees. My AMD Phenom II x4 945 idles at around 25-28 on Windows 7 "Power Saving" scheme, depending on how I set the fan speed with Speedfan. I like it pretty *censored* quiet (I can hear the HDD seeks). I could get it down to around 1 or 2 degrees above ambient if I was willing to tolerate more noise. Those temps Transfusion although acceptable for that cpu are a bit on the high side...It idles at around 33 C. Room Temp is 28 C. AMD Cool'N'Quiet is not turned on as I'm overclocking. P.S. does anyone know of a shuttle style case that will accommodate a micro-ATX mobo? My "Apple TV" is starting to look really ghetto, especially with the lack of a front panel. Quote from: Transfusion on September 20, 2011, 10:14:20 PM P.S. does anyone know of a shuttle style case that will accommodate a micro-ATX mobo? My "Apple TV" is starting to look really ghetto, especially with the lack of a front panel. Aerocool M40 is one of many. Other names to look for include Thermaltake, Antec, Lian Li, Silverstone This site is one of many http://www.xoxide.com/small-form-factor-cases.html Or if you prefer the open air look, Antec make "skeleton" cases: The prices are, frankly, wayy too expensive to even consider buying.... I was thinking of something around $20 or so. I value functionality over aesthetics. Maybe I should go the DIY route-I have this mid-tower ATX case that I would be willing to cut up. That said, the Apexvia cases are really attractive. http://www.tux.org/~bball/pcmods/ I was thinking of something like dis.You may get some interesting ideas from This Site...Quote from: Transfusion on September 21, 2011, 02:09:51 AM The prices are, frankly, wayy too expensive to even consider buying.... I was thinking of something around $20 or so. I was going to say "What planet are you on?" but then I see that ebuyer in Britain is selling MATX cases without PSU for as little as 13.98 UK pounds ($21.87) so they are out there and if you have a PSU you'd be OK. Here's a link and a screen grab... clearly that site isn't much good if you are in the USA but probably those brands are available over there. There are more on that page if you click on the link and scroll down. http://www.ebuyer.com/store/Components/cat/Computer-Cases/subcat/Micro-ATX-Cases Thanks both patio and Salmon Trout, I appreciate the assistance and the helpful links. $21 seems just about the right price without the PSU-I have a micro-ATX PSU waiting to be used right now, so that should be fine. I'm considering the Apevia X-QPACK Portable 3 Window Case-$79 seems just about right if I want to upgrade my computer from the lousy Athlon II X2 240 to, say the Phenom II X4 970-comes with a nice 420 W micro-atx power supply. The mini-ITX form factor would be really nice for a HTPC, but the main caveat is lack of expandability(usually only one PCI-E/PCI port), and of COURSE heat dissipation. You would be hard-pressed to find a decent, low-profile graphics card to fit inside the small form factor cases that are designed for these motherboards. That said, the Zotac GeForce 9300-ITX could very well be used for some HTPC+gaming-just look at it: http://techreport.com/articles.x/16642 Put a Palit Low-Profile GTS 450 and the Core 2 Quad Q9650/Core 2 Extreme QX9770 in there and you'd have something way more powerful than the Mac Mini. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_mini#Specifications_3 I just noticed that the Mac Mini is using MOBILE versions of the i5/i7 processors. |
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