He's at it again! (With "Debbies" help of course! (My faithfull
OC assistant!)
I had just finished doing the initial testing of my Sempron "Phase Change" rig, and found myself without a "Daily Driver" until I go to AM-2 in the next month or so (That will eventually get the "Phase" treatment, and the Sempron will go back to use as my gaming rig in this case)
So anyways..a bit of a backstory is on order at this point...in anticipation of loosing my NF-3 rig, a few weeks ago, I had dug out my old "Mobile XP 2500+" and put it a Shuttle AN-35N Ultra motherboard with a Thermalright SP-97/80MM Vantec Tornado fan set on 5v (And low noise) for cooling duties. It then went in my old Antec case wich allready had been equipped with the Antec 550watt "True Control" power supply with adjustable voltage rails...perfect for daily use!
Other hardware includes a single 256 stick of KHZ PC3500 BH-5 and a 512MB stick of Geil PC3500 BH-5 in dual channel mode...that had kinda realy surprised me it worked! I was always lead to believe that both sticks needed to be the same size!
A "Borrowed" 9800 Pro from Digtal World handles graphics duties.
I had been doing some benchmark testing with it over the last few days to put in the HWBOT threads, but could not stand to leave the Tornadoe on full blast, and after several failed attempts at trying to build a way of controlling the speed of it with various rheostats, I had pretty much just given up on ever being able to leave it at a decent clockspeed and voltage without going deaf!
So I am staring it at it today when I got home from work (The first truely "Cold" day this year" ) and it struck me as to what I needed to do!
I had some dryer duct, and a 120MM fan, and a window not too far away...
My first version went in the side of the case with the side panel off, but did not work out too well, then I pulled the Tornado off the SP-97 and "Rigged" it in place, but it was just not working out well since the 120 does not fit well or move alot of air.
Of course what you see above is the final version..with the cold air ducting into the rear of the case, and turning the 80MM intake fan in the front of the case around to "Exhaust" and BINGO! Temps that make my heart go pitter-patter
It had failed OCCT testing with every other combo of ducting the cold air I had tried so far with these clock speeds and voltages..and now it happily chugs along in near silence, without freezing the rest of the room to get the temps I want!
I will making a few revisions in the near future to seal the case a bit tighter, and possibly change the the case fans to something even higher flowing... and of course I will eventually "Unleash" the Tornado
CPU fan at the full 12volts and try and do some damage to the HWBOT 1MB super pi times for "Team Apex
OC team" current records!