Hi, last year (about 9 months ago) I bought a relatively cheap OCuk system for my sister because i figured I couldn't build something for the same spec any cheaper (or even for the same money)
So anyway, the system is a small cube case, the Antec - Aria that includes a built in power supply with 120mm fan. Supposedly the case comes with a "Cyclone Blower" that fits into a PCI slot, or (apparently) underneath the hdd to add a bit more ventilation as aside from the PSU fan, there is no case fan. OCuk obviously felt no need to include this - but i'm not saying that was a poor descision, it's up to them at the end of the day. Just suffice to say, i don't have the cyclone.
Inside is an Abit - IG80 motherboard (socket 775) that is still on version 1 of bios (i'm probably overly nervous about updating bios's - if it was my box i wouldn't care, but.. well you know)
The processor calls itself an "Intel 3.00Ghz" which i presume means it's a celeron. (model 346 on that url). Oh, and it's not overclocked in any way.
The fan on the CPU is what I take to be the stock intel fan as it has an intel logo on the top. The heatsink appears to be aluminium. To be fair to this fan, it's not actually that small, but it's the reason for me writing this thread.
When the PC is on, (after about 30 minutes) it sounds like it's going to take off.
If left in the bios under Health whatever (that tells you the temperature) i find the it idles at 63º. Honestly i don't know a vast amount about intel processors, but I would imagine that this is rather warm?
The exhaust from the PSU fan is pretty cold, even though the CPU fan sounds like a very loud mosquito that's sat infront of a megaphone (seriously).
What I'm wondering really is whether anyone has this case and can recommend a better heatsink/fan whatever to hopefully lower the idle temperature of the processor so that the fan doesn't need to spin so fast all the damn time.
Alternatively if you know much about this motherboard maybe you can say "ah yes it's actually reporting the temperatures wrong, just update the bios" or something.
A bit of extra info; we're using the onboard sound and graphics - there's nothing in the pci slots, and there's one small sata hdd installed (about 120gb i believe).
And before anyone suggests it, no, a big copper zalman monstrosity probably won’t fit, or i'd have done it already.
Any advice/help whatever is much appreciated, simply because I can almost hear this thing through the walls.
Stubbsy
So anyway, the system is a small cube case, the Antec - Aria that includes a built in power supply with 120mm fan. Supposedly the case comes with a "Cyclone Blower" that fits into a PCI slot, or (apparently) underneath the hdd to add a bit more ventilation as aside from the PSU fan, there is no case fan. OCuk obviously felt no need to include this - but i'm not saying that was a poor descision, it's up to them at the end of the day. Just suffice to say, i don't have the cyclone.
Inside is an Abit - IG80 motherboard (socket 775) that is still on version 1 of bios (i'm probably overly nervous about updating bios's - if it was my box i wouldn't care, but.. well you know)
The processor calls itself an "Intel 3.00Ghz" which i presume means it's a celeron. (model 346 on that url). Oh, and it's not overclocked in any way.
The fan on the CPU is what I take to be the stock intel fan as it has an intel logo on the top. The heatsink appears to be aluminium. To be fair to this fan, it's not actually that small, but it's the reason for me writing this thread.
When the PC is on, (after about 30 minutes) it sounds like it's going to take off.
If left in the bios under Health whatever (that tells you the temperature) i find the it idles at 63º. Honestly i don't know a vast amount about intel processors, but I would imagine that this is rather warm?
The exhaust from the PSU fan is pretty cold, even though the CPU fan sounds like a very loud mosquito that's sat infront of a megaphone (seriously).
What I'm wondering really is whether anyone has this case and can recommend a better heatsink/fan whatever to hopefully lower the idle temperature of the processor so that the fan doesn't need to spin so fast all the damn time.
Alternatively if you know much about this motherboard maybe you can say "ah yes it's actually reporting the temperatures wrong, just update the bios" or something.
A bit of extra info; we're using the onboard sound and graphics - there's nothing in the pci slots, and there's one small sata hdd installed (about 120gb i believe).
And before anyone suggests it, no, a big copper zalman monstrosity probably won’t fit, or i'd have done it already.
Any advice/help whatever is much appreciated, simply because I can almost hear this thing through the walls.
Stubbsy
I can't remember the specifics of the LGA775 mounting mechanism as I use a 939 mobo.
Zalman website clearly lack 775 on supported CPU sockets.
