cooling advice

[ringo747]

hi guys,

first visit to this section of the forum..

i have an athlon xp3000 machine with 3hard disks, gfx card, sound card, 2 dvd drives and floppy all mounted within my case so there isnt really much free space...

the machine is getting really hot these days.. there is one large fan mounted just beside where the RAM sticks are.. i presume this is the CPU fan.. think there maybe is another on the gfx card.

anyhow, if left running for a while this beast makes the most awful and annoying noise.. the fan revs up and the only solution to get anywhere near silence is to remove the side window of the case..

i think that with the multiple hard disks etc inside the tower that i should have some extra form of cooling..

anyone recommend how i could do this? i cant listen to this racket for much longer to be honest!

Looking at my diagnostic tool now (side window open - fan relatively quiet) the temperatures are as follows:

cpu: 36
hard disks: 50

cooling van 3650rpm

Any comments would be good

Cheers

 

[ringo747]

many thanks, very informative..

looking inside my case i just have a CPU fan/heatsink and that is it.. there are no fans at the back of the case (i see two slots for them though)

edit: i can see a very small fan enclosed inside a gold casing.. this might be chipset fan.. its hidden in behind a lot of sata leads tho!

sounds like i need to get something sorted!

 

[ringo747]

just gave fan and heatsink a very quick clean there...

temperatures now:

cpu: 30
hard disks: 40

cooling van 3000rpm (quiet!)

THink I might add one other fan to remove air out to the back.. do i definitely need one of the front to pull fresh air in?

Cheers

 

[ringo747]

got all my heat problems sorted.. got a new thermaltake soprano case with 3 built in fans.. temps now all low 30s! and its quiet too!

Thanks for the advice above

Jonny