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popper · 20-07-2007, 02:59

in all this you never mentioned you had cleaned off your HS and CPU and re-applyed new silver paste, i assume you have done that basic step every time you re-fit the ducting etc?...

some people have been known to re-lap (polish surfaces for max contact)both CPU and heatsink surfaces to be sure to maximise the contact and so increase heat transfer, did you also try that with super fine grain paper/pastes? and get a decrease in over all temps yet?.

also if your real tight on cash and have the tools, you can take an old copper plate off an old CPU cooler and tap and die it onto your biggest heatsink and that to will help that moveing of CPU heat a lot, it did for me way back in the day when i tryed it for fun.

quiet is my bug bare, and power supply fans are my werse offenders of noise, but it hard modding them to take 2+ slower fans and keep them quiet but its tricky getting the right balance, and you risk them going pop if you get it to low an airflow.

20-07-2007, 02:59	#40
popper Inactive Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 3,270	Re: Making a CPU duct to draw outside air onto CPU! in all this you never mentioned you had cleaned off your HS and CPU and re-applyed new silver paste, i assume you have done that basic step every time you re-fit the ducting etc?... some people have been known to re-lap (polish surfaces for max contact)both CPU and heatsink surfaces to be sure to maximise the contact and so increase heat transfer, did you also try that with super fine grain paper/pastes? and get a decrease in over all temps yet?. also if your real tight on cash and have the tools, you can take an old copper plate off an old CPU cooler and tap and die it onto your biggest heatsink and that to will help that moveing of CPU heat a lot, it did for me way back in the day when i tryed it for fun. quiet is my bug bare, and power supply fans are my werse offenders of noise, but it hard modding them to take 2+ slower fans and keep them quiet but its tricky getting the right balance, and you risk them going pop if you get it to low an airflow.