sd37p2 too hot?

Apatche64

Apatche64

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just installed smartfan and it says my cpu temperature is at 51c, that seems hot to me,

with an internal temp of 56c

is that too hot, obviously these shuttles will be hotter than most, but hmm?

what temps do you guys have?

also has anyone replaced to fans with quieter ones for overclocking etc?
 
During this hot weekend my idle temperatures are as high as they have ever been (room temperature is 24/5°).

The world according to XPC tools 1.6:-

System 51°
CPU 45°
Board 0° (woohoo!)

The world according to Everest:-

CPU Core 1&2 - 47°
GPU - 72°

Specs:-
SD37P2
C2D E6700
2GB (2x1GB) OCZ DDR2-533
XFX 8800GTS 640MB XXX
2 x Samsung 300GB SATA

I've CPU fans fixed to "low" and replaced the drive fans with 60mm Ultra quiet Akasa fans, which run off the 3-pin motherboard header (FAN4).

I'm pretty sure the Akasa fans make no difference temperature wise, but there speed is > 2000 rpm (equiv of "mid" for supplied fans) and they are much quieter.

I certainly wouldn't even contemplate overclocking with my shuttle, I'll leave that to my full size cases.
 
thanks for answering, beggining to think no one had a sd37p2:)

can you link me to the fans you are talking about? also which ones do they replace in the case?

i think it would aid this shuttle greatly to have higher spinning fans that are quiet:)

should i replace all the fans in the case with better ones?

speedfan says my cores are about 35c .. but says my overall temp for cpu is 50+

i've seen quite a few peoples specs with the shuttles overclocked, does that mean they have their fans on faster settings to compensate?

thankyou for your help
 
The fans I replaced are the pair of 60mm at the back of the case, above the power supply, being the smallest fans, it seemed a good place to start (as small diameter fans are normally the noisiest).

I'm certainly no expert, but I imagined anything would be better than the supplied fans, so I used the following http://www.akasa.co.uk/akasa_english/spec_page/fans/spec_ak_186_l2b.htm

It should be noted at this stage that *all* fans in the SD37P2 are 4-pin PWM variety, not standard 3 pin fans. For these back fans I used the spare motherboard 3 pin header (of which there is only 1, I used a splitter), although I could have simply used a molex/3-pin fan adapter (one of which is supplied with the fan).

Also worth noting is that there is only just enough clearance to fit these new 60mm fans as they are 25mm deep, the originals are only 15mm deep. However I am working towards removing the back HDD tray by consolidating my drives into 1 high performance unit. Removing the back HDD tray should help airflow a lot.

The CPU fans are 70mm and 92mm units, I've not as yet sourced good PWM replacements for these, I'm reluctant to replace these with normal 3 pin fans. I suspect I'll end up buying 1 or 2 expensive CPU coolers to steal the fans.

Overclocking.... at 'stock' speeds (XFX is factory-clocked) I get around 9500 in 3DMark06, so I see little point myself. Yes I've read about overclocked units, but I've also seen watercooled shuttles and shuttles with the gfx card 'hanging out' of the case.

I suspect you can get away with some overclocking simply by running fans on "high", but as you'll be aware this isn't really practical with the stock fans.
 
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i dont use the second hdd bay so that is fine, will buy these two then i think.

let me know if you find an ok alternative to the cpu fans...

are you running vista btw? i'm running hp 64bit
 
I'm currently running Window XP MCE 2005, Vista gives me no immediate benefits. Next install (probably when HDD is replaced) I shall consider Vista, but will almost certainly plump for 32-bit until 64-bit drivers become more mature.

Of course if Crysis were released tomorrow, I would have Vista tomorrow......
 
my desk is really messy atm, have a look at the sff picture in theis thread.

it's bigger than the older shuttles but not by a great deal:)
 
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