coolermaster cosmos = :(

Gerard · 21 Mar 2008 at 00:19

Wow did i ever make a mistake here. Transfered all my components over and enjoyed the extra space everything had. Sat down to play moh airborne and about 5 minutes in the pc shuts down. Checked the hardware monitor in the bios and according to that the north bridge had to have been over 90c as thats the shutdown temp, the actual northbridge was at the time cooling down from around 87c when i checked it. :eek:

Thats with my q6600 g0 at 3.6 ghz, clocked it back to 3ghz at the minute and i think its still rather toasty.

Mobo is a maximus formula so i think i need a fan positioned over that heatsink to get my overclock back. Anyone know if one of those antec spot coolers would tame the inferno that curently is my northbridge? (http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=SY-000-AN&groupid=701&catid=57&subcat=399)

Gerard · 21 Mar 2008 at 00:38

Voltages with the exception of the cpu are at defaults, 1.4 on the cpu currently. Wires are pretty tidy as they are, 1 intake at the bottom of the case and 3 exhausts. Think just need to add more intakes on the case.

Gerard · 21 Mar 2008 at 12:10

I can't believe how bad the airflow is in this case. 1 intake which is located at the bottom if the case which means the vid cards will be snagging any air it intakes regardless of how the fans angled. Everything has jumped up in temp drastically, even a modest overclock to 3ghz is giving be temps in the mid 70,s for the cpu, used to be maybe 55-60 for 3ghz.

Gerard · 22 Mar 2008 at 03:37

I really think im just gonna put my components back into the antec p182. Temps are up on everything in this case besides the vid cards which are whoring all the intake air at the bottom of the case.

Seriously what genius came up with the idea of putting an intake at the bottom of the case knowing that actively cooled vid cards would suck it in and exhaust it? Even angling the fan doesn't really make any difference.

Temps are up by around 15c+ on the cpu, northbridge at 3.6ghz is roasting despite it being perfectly workable in the antec case. Id love to know why coolemaster designed this case giving all the bay covers meshed panels then didn't bother putting intake fans in them similar to the antec 900 gamers case.

Unless i buy some of those karma bay coolers thers really no way to mount intake fans so thats more money out, ideally id need 2 of them but with the dvd drive taking one slot ive 4 slots left and those bay coolers need 3 bays or so.

Im just gobsmacked at how badly thought out the cooling in this case is, i could buy one of those bay coolers but ive no idea how much it would affect temps (if at all). Then for the northbridge id be sure to need one of those spot cooler fans..more money. =/

Gerard · 22 Mar 2008 at 20:38

The fan bracket imo wouldn't help matters much. It lets me duct air onto the hard drives yes but at the same time if i were to add a front 120mm intake the hard drive fan would be taking most of that air. Even the new cosmos s has no front intake so to me it looks to be more of a design flaw, instead they opted for a side panel cooler.

I might take off the northbridge heatpipe assembly and redo the compond, will probably end up just putting the components into the antec again though =/

Gerard · 4 Apr 2008 at 14:44

I really dunno if i could flog it on mm, this thing in the box is amazingly heavy, would probably cost £30 or more to post the bugger. Its something like 38lbs in weight, then factor in the large cardboard box etc.