trying to cool down HTPC:cpu advice please

footman · 17 Jul 2006 at 22:02

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?

footman · 17 Jul 2006 at 22:50

bbreezeuk said:
better but it would over heat and shut down for sure

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

footman · 18 Jul 2006 at 05:13

bbreezeuk said:
dont you already have a swiftech apex

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

footman · 18 Jul 2006 at 21:07

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

footman · 21 Jul 2006 at 17:51

vonhelmet said:
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.