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by lunix
Thu Nov 10, 2005 1:06 am
Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
Topic: I've put a ton of work into my system, and it's not SILENT!
Replies: 13
Views: 9048

My feedback

I'm pretty happy with my Thermal Take Sonic Tower CL-P0071 for my CPU heatsink. It is fairly lightweight for its size and I don't need a dedicated CPU fan for my AMD Athlon 64 3500 processor. I use a Vantec Stealth 120mm system fan to cool it when necessary using the onboard temperature control mech...
by lunix
Sun Nov 06, 2005 11:33 pm
Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
Topic: Poor contact between thermal pad and chips on my VGA card
Replies: 0
Views: 1027

Poor contact between thermal pad and chips on my VGA card

I recent purchased a Aopen Aeolus 6600 PCIe 256MB video card. No fans, just a heatsink. Temperature wise it holds up pretty okay. It doesn't have an internal thermocouple so I attached an external one to heatsink and measured it at 65C in the worst case running the WoW. However once in a while my Wo...