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Mauldor · 15-05-2007, 22:50

New system is not happy, let me tell you of the long story so far:

Parts arrived and I put this together in a bog standard case I had lying around, it has a Side fan and a top fan already fitted, side Fan Blowing in and Top fan sucking out. Now I fitted the whole lot and the HSF was so big that it overlapped the HS on the motherboard but it ran anyhow and the Temp's were 30c rising upto 35 and on load something in the region of 40+ type thing.

Now the system was Very noisey indeed and it was at this stage I had to find out what the problem was, after much investigation, the 7600GTFan was on all the time and making most of the noise, with that out of the system for example it was almost silent (and if you removed the 2 case fans).

What I did in the end (and this might be wrong) was have to top fan blowing down into the case (stream of cold Air for the Fan on the CPU) and the side fan replaced with a no-connected one. I placed 2 x Fans on the back blowing out of the case , top one still blowing down into the case and a front one sucking air in.

Anyhow, system ran fine for days on end and tonight for example I fired up a game of BF2, had done this many times through the week and no problems came about - half way through a 2nd
match my system rebooted and I was met with one long Beep, pause beep again and so forth. Looking this up on another system says its a RAM Fault. I replaced the ram from my Other machine (only DDR533) and the system worked. I tried the ram one stick at a time in the other machine and it was then one of the stick were dead.

I asked myself at this time, was the fans in the case the wrong way and enough heat built up and thus fried the ram? They are Patriot and have heat spreaders on and by god they were hot as well. Surely the Air coming from the top down was enough to cool these? I Put my hand (without touching anything) and could feel the Air no problems next to the ram chips.

Now the annoying part, I have to RMA both of them (thus system is out of action) and post them via Royal Mail - I am not sure if the cost is given back to you. I know from SCAN for example they sent a new part and swapped my broken part at the door, all next day. Thus the perils I guess of Buying online.

15-05-2007, 22:50	#24
Mauldor Inactive Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Scunthorpe Age: 59 Services: 50mbit, Base TV, Base Phone Posts: 437	Re: Good C2D Motherboard choice? New system is not happy, let me tell you of the long story so far: Parts arrived and I put this together in a bog standard case I had lying around, it has a Side fan and a top fan already fitted, side Fan Blowing in and Top fan sucking out. Now I fitted the whole lot and the HSF was so big that it overlapped the HS on the motherboard but it ran anyhow and the Temp's were 30c rising upto 35 and on load something in the region of 40+ type thing. Now the system was Very noisey indeed and it was at this stage I had to find out what the problem was, after much investigation, the 7600GTFan was on all the time and making most of the noise, with that out of the system for example it was almost silent (and if you removed the 2 case fans). What I did in the end (and this might be wrong) was have to top fan blowing down into the case (stream of cold Air for the Fan on the CPU) and the side fan replaced with a no-connected one. I placed 2 x Fans on the back blowing out of the case , top one still blowing down into the case and a front one sucking air in. Anyhow, system ran fine for days on end and tonight for example I fired up a game of BF2, had done this many times through the week and no problems came about - half way through a 2nd match my system rebooted and I was met with one long Beep, pause beep again and so forth. Looking this up on another system says its a RAM Fault. I replaced the ram from my Other machine (only DDR533) and the system worked. I tried the ram one stick at a time in the other machine and it was then one of the stick were dead. I asked myself at this time, was the fans in the case the wrong way and enough heat built up and thus fried the ram? They are Patriot and have heat spreaders on and by god they were hot as well. Surely the Air coming from the top down was enough to cool these? I Put my hand (without touching anything) and could feel the Air no problems next to the ram chips. Now the annoying part, I have to RMA both of them (thus system is out of action) and post them via Royal Mail - I am not sure if the cost is given back to you. I know from SCAN for example they sent a new part and swapped my broken part at the door, all next day. Thus the perils I guess of Buying online.