trying to cool down HTPC:cpu advice please

[footman]

Ive got a Silverstone case and ATM its crammed to bursting and I feel Im not getting good airflow.
The main culprit for space seems to be the SI-120 and 120mm fan cooling my opty [email protected].
Would running say a 4400 at stock using a passive heatsink give me same /better/worse processing power?

 

[bbreezeuk]

better but it would over heat and shut down for sure

 

[footman]

better but it would over heat and shut down for sure

hmmm....could always consider a little watercooling.

 

[Eliot]

zalman restorator in my opininon

 

[bbreezeuk]

dont you already have a swiftech apex

 

[footman]

dont you already have a swiftech apex

thats on my main rig, this is for the HTPC.

 

[bbreezeuk]

use an si-120 with an amber on it

 

[Tesla]

Is your PC actually unstable or is the temp read out just high?

If it's just the latter then I really woulnd't care or bother to rectify anything.

 

[footman]

Yes, I think I'm trying to tinker with the the untinkable!

 

[Vonhelmet]

Do you really need that powerful a processor in an HTPC? How much encoding is it doing? I'd bet you could underclock it and still have it working fine.

 

[footman]

Do you really need that powerful a processor in an HTPC? How much encoding is it doing? I'd bet you could underclock it and still have it working fine.

its not actually doing any encoding, I do that on my main rig.

 

[Goatboy]

Do you really need that powerful a processor in an HTPC?

An HTPC processor can never be too powerful - some of the new codecs will eat that up just to playback.

 

[fini]

An HTPC processor can never be too powerful - some of the new codecs will eat that up just to playback.

not if you've got purevideo installed.

fini

 

[Goatboy]

If you have one of the very few, very expensive graphics cards that fully supports it that is.