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Case cooling question.

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piehole

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Hey guys, just a quick question regarding case cooling.

I have an Antec PLUSview 1000 (fantastic case btw) with 5 80mm case fans. 2 are positioned at the lower grill in the front of the case sucking air into it over the hdd bays, keeps my hdd cool as ice. I also have 2 expelling air out of the case positioned just where the cpu normally goes. The cpu is cooled by an aero 7+ with its fan rotated (with it in the normal position it's sucking air from where my case fans are sucking air). Right onto temps. (pics can be provided if required)

As i sit here after priming it to gauge temps they currently sit at:

idle:
45* CPU, 29* Case

full load:
50* CPU, 30* Case.

Now after all that background information we get onto my question(s).

Firstly, my case has a fan bay positioned on the window just above the PCI slots. Is it better to have this fan blow onto the cards or suck air from the case? I've done both and not really noticed any difference between them both, although i'm seriously swayed towards blowing onto the cards because lord only knows the memory overclock i could get with ramsinks so cool :)

Secondly, I can't for the life of me get this barsteward barton to overclock stable at anything past 185 fsb, and even at 185 it fails at prime nigh on instantly. I'm currently running it at 175 and she's delightfully happy like this. Could this be either my PSU (Q-TEC 550W, yes i know it's crap but the reviews i read said otherwise until i'd bloody brought the thing) or the ram (Kingsmax DDR400 - no idea on cas etc as i brought it from a local shop before i discovered the delights of ordering online)

A side note. If i boot into anything 190+ fsb my motherboard has to recover the bios, and last time i booted into 190+ on this same make of motherboard it died on me completely. Using a different PSU/Graphics card so it wasn't power related.

I know it's a long read, hopefully it'll give you something to feast on :)

pyro.
 
I think the most effective way to do it is have the fans blow in from the front, and the fans on the back blow out. That seems like what most people are doing.

I just have 2 Fans and that seems to work the best. I tried them both blowing out and the temps were around 55 deg, but with 1 going in and 1 going out it droped to 48-49 deg or so.
 
Originally posted by piehole
Hey guys, just a quick question regarding case cooling.

I have an Antec PLUSview 1000 (fantastic case btw) with 5 80mm case fans. 2 are positioned at the lower grill in the front of the case sucking air into it over the hdd bays, keeps my hdd cool as ice. I also have 2 expelling air out of the case positioned just where the cpu normally goes. The cpu is cooled by an aero 7+ with its fan rotated (with it in the normal position it's sucking air from where my case fans are sucking air). Right onto temps. (pics can be provided if required)

As i sit here after priming it to gauge temps they currently sit at:

idle:
45* CPU, 29* Case

full load:
50* CPU, 30* Case.

Now after all that background information we get onto my question(s).

Firstly, my case has a fan bay positioned on the window just above the PCI slots. Is it better to have this fan blow onto the cards or suck air from the case? I've done both and not really noticed any difference between them both, although i'm seriously swayed towards blowing onto the cards because lord only knows the memory overclock i could get with ramsinks so cool :)

Secondly, I can't for the life of me get this barsteward barton to overclock stable at anything past 185 fsb, and even at 185 it fails at prime nigh on instantly. I'm currently running it at 175 and she's delightfully happy like this. Could this be either my PSU (Q-TEC 550W, yes i know it's crap but the reviews i read said otherwise until i'd bloody brought the thing) or the ram (Kingsmax DDR400 - no idea on cas etc as i brought it from a local shop before i discovered the delights of ordering online)

A side note. If i boot into anything 190+ fsb my motherboard has to recover the bios, and last time i booted into 190+ on this same make of motherboard it died on me completely. Using a different PSU/Graphics card so it wasn't power related.

I know it's a long read, hopefully it'll give you something to feast on :)

pyro.
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The Barton won't limit the FSB, bro.

Memory quality & timings will though, also voltages.

Increase vcore voltage , increase vdimm voltages.

With your ram you may need to run 6-3-2-2.5 for best results.

Good luck.
 
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