Serious Heat Issues

Psymonkee · 9 Jul 2006 at 21:47

Having just been playing a few games I am now just icing my hand after touching my case after a sudden BSOD. Yes it was THAT hot

Quite simply whilst the LL V1000+ looks the part I'm still hating the cooling

What I need is best case for keeping things from getting toasty using air only (can't afford much else right now

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Whats the best bet?

benjo · 9 Jul 2006 at 21:49

Well the Eclipse has the best airflow and cooling

Psymonkee · 9 Jul 2006 at 21:51

So I understand - however I can't be having a case thats uglier than me

I'll add it to the maybe's list ;\

Yewen · 9 Jul 2006 at 22:07

Whats your fan configuartion and spec, no way should a v1000+ get that hot.

Psymonkee · 9 Jul 2006 at 22:21

Stock ADDA's running at 800rpm each:

Intake over the HDD's
Extract at the rear

XP-120 w/ Akasa Amber
Passively cooled NB (Zalman bloo thingy)
7800GS w/ VF700

It's cooled right back down now since it rebooted and I haven't touched a game but it was verging on crazy hot

Fully loaded on both cores of an Opty 165 and I have: (from speedfan)

Temp1 (CPU iirc): 46C
Temp2 (NB): 60C
Temp3 (MOSFETS?): 64C
HD0: 37
HD1: 39

finally a second entry for temp1 at 40C.

In response to the heat I have cranked both adda's up to ~1500rpm

Yewen · 9 Jul 2006 at 22:24

Rear fan is a INTAKE.

Front fan is also a INTAKE.

Try that, if not do you have a blower fan that came with the case, if so fit it.

WJA96 · 9 Jul 2006 at 22:25

That's not hot.

And if you're seriously worried about cooling, get the Eclipse. I've used most of *** currently available cases and so far, I found nothing better for air cooling than the Eclipse 62 with the additional vented side panel. The side panel now comes with an Akasa branded YS-Tech fan, and I would recommend YS-Tech fans for the front and back too, put them on a fan controller for flexibility and turn them up and down as required.

Raikiri · 9 Jul 2006 at 22:26

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17596948

Also give this a try to see if your CPU temps are correct because the only one that looks too high is the northbridge, event hen I have seen worse.

Yewen · 9 Jul 2006 at 22:26

Yeh I forgot to mention, if its stable dont worry about it!

Psymonkee · 9 Jul 2006 at 22:26

Having the rear as an intake cooked everything inside - all temps went up 5 - 10C so not keen to try that again...it also practically roasted the DVD drive/front of the case

Blower fan was connected but I found it mostly useless

//edit: new posts coming too fast - it's like tetris but harder

It has been stable until now - all sorts of crashing going on thats doing my head in

WJA96 · 9 Jul 2006 at 22:35

Psymonkee said:
Having the rear as an intake cooked everything inside - all temps went up 5 - 10C so not keen to try that again...it also practically roasted the DVD drive/front of the case

That sounds really weird - I've seen cases where the back has been very warm as the air is moving that way, but if you have *** rear set up to extract then there should be no hot air going forwards, so the front of *** case should be cool.

Psymonkee said:
It has been stable until now - all sorts of crashing going on thats doing my head in

Are the fans 5V/7V/12V? 800rpm sounds very low, even for a 120mm fan. Can you feel air movement out of the back of the case?

Raikiri · 9 Jul 2006 at 22:37

WJA96 said:
Are the fans 5V/7V/12V? 800rpm sounds very low, even for a 120mm fan. Can you feel air movement out of the back of the case?

The fans on my lanboy are about the same with a heavily OCed 805 so they shuold be moving enough air

Psymonkee · 9 Jul 2006 at 22:41

The fans are both running off an Akasa FC03 fan controller at minimum which is approx 5V. Airflow out the back is there but minimal at best.

Core Temp proggie has both cores pegged at around the 53C mark

Yewen · 9 Jul 2006 at 22:45

Try without the fan controller.

The ADDA's do push at least some air!

WJA96 · 9 Jul 2006 at 22:47

Or at least turn the fan controller up to 12V?

Surely that's the first thing you should try?

Psymonkee · 9 Jul 2006 at 22:53

I have been

Not that silly.

I'll do some fiddling tomorrow and see whats what

OV3RCLOCK3R · 9 Jul 2006 at 23:14

If the pc is overclocked, it'll be a good idea to turn down the oc at the moment

Day03 · 9 Jul 2006 at 23:29

When I first got my V1000+ I was very dissapointed with it's cooling especially that I have the passively cooled Asus A8N32-sli premium mobo. I've read so many possitive comments about how well Lian-Li have designed the cooling but i was shocked when I saw it. The rear fan was set as intake and had a very think mesh covering it which I'm sure did not allow much air in. The case did come with a exhaust blower to be mounted at the top of the case but it wasn't very efficient and again it was suppose to push air through this very thick mesh. And the whole case was as loud as a helicopter. After 5 minutes I switched of the PC and changed all the cooling. First thing was to get rid of the thick mesh grills, change the rear fan to exhaust. I also got the Zalman 9500 CPU cooler which blows air directly to the rear fan. I've put a NVidia Silencer of the graphics card which acts as an exhaust fan as it pushes air directly out of the case not back into it. I've also taken a 60mm fan from the stock AMD cpu cooler and mounted it so that it blows over the northbridge and PCI cards. The 120mm fans have been changed too Akasa Ambers and everything is now running at 50% with very nice temps.