Emyr wrote:Turn your heatsink 90 degrees so that more of its hot air gets pulled out by the rear case fan. That way, the PSU fan should run quieter since it'll be getting cooler air.
When I mounted it, I thought it could only go one way since it looked like there was a row of capacitors that would block one of the mounting brackets.
You can see in this pic how if it were mounted the other way (LGA775 is square, right?), some of the components might get in the way:
But now that I look at it, it would probably clear it anyway, as you can see in this picture I stole from the internet:
Anyway, would switching up its orientation give me that big of a thermal advantage? Note that the power supply in the NSK3480 is a single 80mm straight-through design. There are vents at the top of the to pull air in, and the top/power supply/optical/HDD section of the case is thermally isolated from the bottom. If I have it running for a while at idle I can't feel any heat coming out, but I haven't really stressed it yet.
I figured that with the low airflow it would allow for more heat to escape from the heatsink up and then be whisked away by the fan, rather than have all the hot air trapped inside the heatsink... but that was just my rationale. Definite advantage? 'Cause if so, I'll change it.
that Linux guy wrote:I definitely agree about turning the heatsink. With an E8400, what kind of temps are you getting? I'm still using the stock Intel heatsink with mine, and it takes exactly 60 seconds to reach 62C with Orthos. Plus it's doing this annoying rev up, then quiet down, then rev up again.... It's changing RPMs every 1 to 3 seconds..... annoying.
How about your chipset and GPU temps? With no intake fans, what are your temps like?
And another HR-01+ question... how do you like the including mounting? I know it's better than Intel's push-pins, but do the Thermalright mounts feel secure? Would you feel comfortable adding a fan to the weight of it? Just curious.
I have not stressed it yet so I don't know any of these temperature things. I've looked up the e8400 temperature thing and apparently it's really tricky to tell the actual temperature as the sensors are in weird places and not very much software can track it correctly. Maybe I'll do that this afternoon!
The mounting is very easy once you get the backplate on... with most heatsinks I wouldn't dare trying to mount it while its in the case but with this, once the backplate is secure, it shouldn't be a big deal putting the rest on. It's pretty light, but you can move it around some when its mounted... its tight to the CPU, though.
I will install ATI tool/prime 95 and some monitoring software and let you know.
gogos7 wrote:Overconfidence wrote:
150GB WD1500HLFS Velociraptor w/ elastic rope suspension
Hi,
What's that plastic legs?
![Shocked :shock:](./images/smilies/icon_eek.gif)
How it called? Where did you get them? It goes with the "elastic rope"?
Hahaha. My dad came up with the idea. He found these plastic things lying around. This is what they are (my crappy mspaint rendition):
So the mounting screw that attaches the icepack to the 'raptor goes through the middle, from the bottom, and attaches to the drive. We had to put some plastic spacers between these things and the drive because the screws bottomed out without 'em.
Then we lockstrapped the little tabs of the "feet" onto some elastic cord that you can see just doubles around and is tied up.
The reason for this is 'cause I plan to transport the computer around a fair bit, and I can just sandwich it between some foam up there and I don't have to worry about it sliding out of the suspension mechanism.
I'm really bad at explanations so if you don't get it, I can try again hahaha.
edit: yeah, the screws that attached the icepak to the hard drive just happened to fit these plastic things (the hole is a bit big for the threads but the head of the screw doesn't fit through so it's all good). I'll ask my dad what they are exactly and maybe I can let you guys know.