Cooling ideas for my system?

[syke]

My computer has been crashing of late and ive decided its heat...

The specs are:

Socket A AMD Athlon 2800+
512MB Ram
2x40GB IDE HD
9800 Pro 128mb
A78NX-Deluxe Mobo

i dont want to spend a hell of a lot to keep it cool

But i was thinking along the lines of a new cooling case? Antec or Arctic Cooling etc?

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[Ender]

what Heatshink do you have on it at the moment? thats likely to affect cooling better, unless you have a lack of airflow in your case

 

[Joe42]

What made you decide it was the heat?
How hot is it getting?
How and when does it crash?

 

[syke]

What made you decide it was the heat?
How hot is it getting?
How and when does it crash?

Both Mobo/CPU running at 60C area...and its heat because ever since summer its just started to crash at random times...

Also because when i have my CPU fan on full..it doesnt seem to crash as often - but it sounds like im in an airport...

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[bbreezeuk]

im having the same problem but my load temps are 45*c

 

[Gibbs]

for socket a it has to be the Thermaltake Big Typhoon. am running one on a 2800+ and temps are 35C and 45 with this warm weather. great cooler

 

[cobxx]

for socket a it has to be the Thermaltake Big Typhoon. am running one on a 2800+ and temps are 35C and 45 with this warm weather. great cooler

Yeah, they're some pretty powerful coolers. What case you got atm cause if no air can get to the CPU, a new cooler won't help much?Cable management can do wonders as well, and it's free (or just the price for cable ties/black insulation tape!)

 

[Gibbs]

the case i am using is a cheapo £8 one. I was going to mod it but i just havnt be bothered so am gonna pick up a new Thermaltake Mambo case. As for cable management , as you can see, anywere will do. but once the new case comes it will be tidy, all the cables will drop behind the motherboard tray hopefully

 

[Dutch Guy]

If the CPU is overheating get a better CPU cooler, if the system is overheating get better casefans and tidy up the cables.

Getting a new case isn't really going to help a lot.

 

[VeNT]

go water cooling.

 

[bbreezeuk]

go water cooling.

i dont want to spend a hell of a lot to keep it cool

that makes a lot of sense doesnt it

 

[syke]

Well i was thinking of getting a new case and adding as many fans.. but not sure which case is cool itself...and then which fans..

Ideas?

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[Joe42]

If you can get hold of them, 120x38mm panaflos. Antec P180 is a good case for both cooling and low noise.

 

[FatRakoon]

It brought it home to me, just how vital case cooling was, a couple of years back, when I too started to have issues with crashing etc on a severely clocked PC.

I did almost everythign I could to improve the air flow with what I had, and ended up using 4xfront 80mm 2xside 80mm and 2xrear 80mm and the CPU another 80mm and all these were all deltas, so its not like they were not powerful, but in the end, the best cooling solution I found out, was to simply not skimp on the case.

I bought a Thermaltake Armour, and my temps dropped to 36c using the supplied 120mm fans, and I never looked back since.

I later bought a Coolermaster Stacker, and found that this didnt give quite as good cooling as the Armour, but to be fair, I did use the cases for differece systems, so I cannot say for sure, but that certainly cured all my cooling issues.

Ok, the CPU Cooler I used was, now dropped to an SLK700 or an SK7 with a cheap and nasty 80mm UV Fan, which is only 18CFM, but the case cooling was so good, it was better than using a Delta80mm in my other case.

So, anyway, you dont want to spend much on it, so how about doing somethign that should cost only pennies...

Take the PC apart, and clean out any dust from around the HSF and anywhere near fans etc... Also, re-seat the HeatSink onto the CPU as that can often gain you a few extra C's