I'm new at this, so i need some help

golavaman · 07-21-2005, 09:03 PM

Hi, i'm building my first pc, well, the first one that's for preformance, and i'm having trouble figuring out how i'm going to do my cooling system. so far i have 5 80mm case fans, 2 aluminum heat spreaders for the memory, 1 standard processor fan heatsync for my amd athlon 64 processor. i have a video card with just a heatsync so i was thinking about getting an exhaust pci slot fan. my case has 1 fan slot in the back, 2 in the front, 1 on the side panel and 1 on the top which i removed since i got a power supply with a fan that sticks out the back but i can put it back. i was thinking about getting some heatsyncs for the chips on the motherboard and the memmory on the video card. any advice, which way should fans blow, etc etc?

lynx6200 · 07-21-2005, 09:23 PM

I'm using the same cpu, AMD 3400+, but im getting warm temps on it, need a new heatsink, but sounds like you got plenty of cooling to get you started. You should make the fans on the front and side intake, and the ones on back exhaust.

golavaman · 07-21-2005, 09:31 PM

should i have the fan on top of the processor blow onto the processor, or away from it b

lynx6200 · 07-21-2005, 09:38 PM

Not sure about that. Your heatsink should primarily take care of the cpu, i think the heatsink fan blows on the cpu. So, if you have another one above it, it probably wouldnt hurt to be blwoing towards it.

Modoman · 07-21-2005, 10:06 PM

i always make the side fan exhaust, so it removes the air directly around the cpu. works like a charm

j0hn00 · 07-21-2005, 10:44 PM

If you're using the stock heatsink/fan, I'd have the rear and side fans as exhaust.

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i have a video card with just a heatsync so i was thinking about getting an exhaust pci slot fan.

I doubt it's necessary.

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i was thinking about getting some heatsyncs for the chips on the motherboard and the memmory on the video card.

Again, I don't think it's necessary, but if you want... Zalman's products are always nice.

NeuromancerWGDD'U · 07-23-2005, 08:06 AM

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Originally Posted by Modoman

i always make the side fan exhaust, so it removes the air directly around the cpu. works like a charm

My computer had a case fan directly above the CPU as exhaust, and flipping it to intake actually lowered my temps about 2 degrees (C, mind you).

**dragon2309** · 07-23-2005, 12:08 PM

i wouldnt have thought that the heatsinks for the chips on the mobo were necessary, i take it you mean the northbridge and south bridge chips. Northbridge SHOULD already have one on there cause it gets ridiculouskly hot, thats where most things happen (aside from the CPU of course). Southbridge usually governs things like onboard graphics or PCI bus etc. Doesnt usually get too hot nless you are an extremeist in the land of overclocking. Non of the other chips will get hot during normal use, memory chips on the graphics on ly start to get a little warm during heavy gaming so once agan prob not necessary.

Stick with all the fans you got and you should be pretty sweet. The heat spreaders for the RAM is a good iea though, i like that, i might get some.

**Archangel** · 07-23-2005, 03:50 PM

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Originally Posted by j0hn00

Zalman's products are always nice.

Not always,.. my friend has a zalman cpu cooler,.. and its making really, really much noise

j0hn00 · 07-24-2005, 01:16 AM

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Not always,.. my friend has a zalman cpu cooler,.. and its making really, really much noise

Actually, I was referring to Zalman's chipset and memory heatsinks. But still... weird. I've had two Zalman processor coolers and two video card coolers without any problems. At full blast, they are the quietest fans in my system.

07-21-2005, 09:03 PM	#1 (permalink)
golavaman New Member Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 22	I'm new at this, so i need some help Hi, i'm building my first pc, well, the first one that's for preformance, and i'm having trouble figuring out how i'm going to do my cooling system. so far i have 5 80mm case fans, 2 aluminum heat spreaders for the memory, 1 standard processor fan heatsync for my amd athlon 64 processor. i have a video card with just a heatsync so i was thinking about getting an exhaust pci slot fan. my case has 1 fan slot in the back, 2 in the front, 1 on the side panel and 1 on the top which i removed since i got a power supply with a fan that sticks out the back but i can put it back. i was thinking about getting some heatsyncs for the chips on the motherboard and the memmory on the video card. any advice, which way should fans blow, etc etc? __________________ ________________________ Athlon 64 3400+ 1600 Mhz FSB Two 160 Gb ide 133 Hard Drives 80 Gb Serial ATA 150 Hard Drive Two 512 Mb DDR 400 Optima Memmory Modjules PNY X-tasy 64 Mb Video card

07-21-2005, 09:23 PM	#2 (permalink)
lynx6200 Platinum Member Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: NC Age: 26 Posts: 787	I'm using the same cpu, AMD 3400+, but im getting warm temps on it, need a new heatsink, but sounds like you got plenty of cooling to get you started. You should make the fans on the front and side intake, and the ones on back exhaust. __________________ [size=2][size=1][color=DarkGreen][color=Navy] CoolerMaster Case Asus A8N SLI- Deluxe AMD athlon 64 3400+ 1GB Ultra DDR ram XFX 7600 GT 256mb videe 230GB SATA HD Combo drive

07-21-2005, 09:31 PM	#3 (permalink)
golavaman New Member Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 22	also? should i have the fan on top of the processor blow onto the processor, or away from it b __________________ ________________________ Athlon 64 3400+ 1600 Mhz FSB Two 160 Gb ide 133 Hard Drives 80 Gb Serial ATA 150 Hard Drive Two 512 Mb DDR 400 Optima Memmory Modjules PNY X-tasy 64 Mb Video card

07-21-2005, 09:38 PM	#4 (permalink)
lynx6200 Platinum Member Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: NC Age: 26 Posts: 787	Not sure about that. Your heatsink should primarily take care of the cpu, i think the heatsink fan blows on the cpu. So, if you have another one above it, it probably wouldnt hurt to be blwoing towards it. __________________ [size=2][size=1][color=DarkGreen][color=Navy] CoolerMaster Case Asus A8N SLI- Deluxe AMD athlon 64 3400+ 1GB Ultra DDR ram XFX 7600 GT 256mb videe 230GB SATA HD Combo drive

07-21-2005, 10:06 PM	#5 (permalink)
Modoman Platinum Member Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 553	i always make the side fan exhaust, so it removes the air directly around the cpu. works like a charm __________________ X2 3800+ Toledo @ 2.0GHz w/ Zalman 9500 2GB OCZ DC EL Plat. 2-3-2-5 2T MSI K8N-Neo4 2 x WD 36GB SATA Raptors eVga 7800GT @ 470/1200 FSP AX500-A 500w

07-23-2005, 12:08 PM	#8 (permalink)
dragon2309 P.I Dragon Join Date: May 2005 Location: KENT, UK Age: 20 Posts: 8,424	i wouldnt have thought that the heatsinks for the chips on the mobo were necessary, i take it you mean the northbridge and south bridge chips. Northbridge SHOULD already have one on there cause it gets ridiculouskly hot, thats where most things happen (aside from the CPU of course). Southbridge usually governs things like onboard graphics or PCI bus etc. Doesnt usually get too hot nless you are an extremeist in the land of overclocking. Non of the other chips will get hot during normal use, memory chips on the graphics on ly start to get a little warm during heavy gaming so once agan prob not necessary. Stick with all the fans you got and you should be pretty sweet. The heat spreaders for the RAM is a good iea though, i like that, i might get some. __________________ Intel Core2Duo E6600 @ 3.1Ghz - (__CPU__) eVGA 680i SLi - (__MOB__) 4Gb Corsair Dominator DDR2-800 (4x1024Mb) - (__RAM__) 250Gb Western Digital SATAII 7200rpm - (__HDD__) nVidia BFG 8800GTS OC 320Mb - (__GFX__) LG DVD+/-RW 18x DVD-RAM - (__OPT__) Triple Boot - [XP Pro] + [Vista Ultimate] + [Ubuntu 7.10] - (__OS__) [3DMARK'03 :: 25,587] --- [3DMARK'05 :: 13,989] --- [3DMARK'06 :: 8791] - (__BENCHMARKS__) dragon2309.co.uk - a little slice of geek

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