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phacundo

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I have experiance overheating (well not realy but it run realy hot). I have SHUTTLE XPC model S51G2, Its a Pentium 4 3.06ghz OC to 3.276ghz with 1g or ram and 80g hd and Radeaon Pro. I have lean that SFF (shuttle) run hot, at stock it was running around 60c. Now correct me if I am wrong but that is hot. Paying games it would go up to 69c to 73c and I have seen it as hot as 76c. I have every thing in control but I am staring this to help people whom may have same problem with heat and for me to learn more about how to take care of heat problems.

I am also looking to find out how can I OC this pc more. My freind has a 2.6ghz running at 3.2 thats about 30% OC above stock speed and I am only 8% OC :( and if he can do that may be I can too but cant seem to figure it out yet.

If I can help, I can help but I can also get your help. :D
 
It has been a bit rough, when I found out that the PC temp was a bit high I started to mess with the computer (shuttle xpc) and I replace the heat compund with artic silver but dint help. Still fustraded by the heat problem I stared to run the SHUTTLE with out the cover and that made an inprovment now it stared to run at 58c but when I played games it would go up to 68c. Then I decided to add another fan and with the cover open. I put the fan on top blowing at full speed down to the cpu. yea that help but still not enough.

What I did next was remove the shuttle xpc heat pike heatsink and put p4 heatsink block (ah problem SFF) I had to remove floppy drive (dont need it anyway) move HDD up a bit and got a therma take fan and an adapter to place fan since I was not able to have the fan on the heatsink (no space). The fan is loose on top of the heat sing another fan on the back pulling cool air in. This made a good improvement now at idel the shuttle is running at 53c but about 63c running games.

It has been though............... All this I have don little by little (money). :D
 
thats still quite hot, as a rule of thumb i dont run a p4 past 65C :eek:
 
Yea I know is perty hot. The computer some this it locks up (not ofter) or restarts.
Now I oreded the EXOS (first model) and a water block for it.

Hmmm may be I should take some pics. :D
 
the "ice" in my shuttle works really. well.. i run my cpu at 100% load all the time (f@h).. temps are about 50... this is living in florida.. i was about 40c when i first build this and was living in my mom's cold basment in DC....

did you try cutting out the rear grill? oyu can mod a 120mm externally.. they only reason i didn't do this was becasue i got a shuttle bag.. and need all the mods internal so it fits in the bag...
 
Im sorry phacmundo, I am sure that english is not your first language...but that is hard to follow.

Anyways, that is too hot for a shuttle, they actually usually run quite cool for an SFF. You might have had the ICE mounted poorly. Also the 2.6C is a much better overclocker than the 3.06 processor, dont expect too high an overclock with your processor.


@ ryuji : I laugh at your rule of thumb, 65C HA! I run mine at 75C thank you very much! (You must keep in mind that there are many many different versions of the P4, all of which by the way are designed for higher than 65C, some as high as 100C for normal operating conditions, and up to like 135C before they fail)
 
who was talking about failing, out of experience most of the processors i have seen make errors after 70C
 
what is your smartfan setting in the BIOS? If it is set to the default "smartfan" setting, your CPU will probably overheat like you are seeing. You should change it to "medium" and it should be ok.
 
You know, I did have it on smart fan and changed it to mid.... I'll let you know how it did later.

The ice on this shuttle is on fine and I even tried different types of thermal compound (silicon base, artic silver and other stuff). I have 4 different thermal compounds and the shuttle acted just the same way, well let me see how changing the setting in the BIOS does.

Thanks guys for all this great info…..

:)
 
you won't see much of a diff. by switching thermal compounds....especially since ur shuttle case / ambient temp is high.....but yah, watercooling it would be a good thing :)
 
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