Hello

I have a problem cooling my system chip, but have a space problem.

System:

Flexiglow 500w PS

Asus KFN5-D SLI Socket f 1027 Dual AMD

2 x AMD Opteron 2210 1.8Ghz Dual Core overclocked to 2.3Ghz

2 x COrsair 1gig Reg ECC Memory

2 x Thermaltake Golden Orbs

1 x EVGA NVIDIA 8800 GTS

1 x 350mm Desk Fan pointing into the open case.
Ear muffs.

CPU temp range between 41deg and 49deg, only a 5deg jump when overclocked.
The 8800 goes 55deg to 65deg. but sits right on top of the system chip with 3 ball hairs to spare, that gets a toasty 70deg before the sysyem goes unstable.
Therefore the desk fan into open case.
There are a total of six fans in the server case and it is not helping at all.

This is my second mobo as the other one blew over the same issue.
The only option could be a custom block with heatpipes.

Any help would be appreciated.

Trenton

why the hell is your text linked to a closed site????

with fans it doesn't help if your case is clogged up with cables and the likes... maybe do a re-adjustment of your IDE, power cables...

problem could caused by your 500W flexiglow not supplying sufficient power for all the things in your system

care to take a pic of the system?


another solution is to move to water cooling

Are you sure the fans are working and are not clogged up with dust etc.

Water Cooling is worth the investment if you have the money for it though

Only 500W ?
That's def. likely to give you a problem by itself....

I'm so out of the loop on hardware nowadays (getting old...) anyhow

My quick view:
Heatsink looks pretty cheap to me.
I'd suggest getting a 3rd party cooler that fit's in there.
Otherwise have one machined to spec / water cool it

Or get different mobo....

It is a known problem with this board, I'm going to try and mill a copper heatsink and fit a old thinkpad cooler to it.
That should be flat enough.
Last resort would be water, but my wife said I'm not allowed to spend any money on the PC anymore. Will have to be on the sly.

This is the final solution.
http://www.koolance.com/shop/product_info....products_id=393

Here is pic

ok wait a minute!

firstly is your system unstable as in it's overheating? or is it just that yuo are worried that your graphic card is showing a temperature of 70degrees?

if your system is overheating there is always a shutdown temperature gauage that will prevent your pc from burning... usually CPU set to 65 degrees with the latest CPU's

as for your graphics card 78 degrees is the norm with stock cooling especially those 8800gts/gtx/ultras! anything higher than 100 then you have a problem...


when your system becomes unstable does it freeze? have you check that the memory is not faulty?

if your system is just randomly rebooting when you are playing games/pushing the GPU then it may be your PSU that is not sufficient.

remember generic PSU's don't give you the exact power rating that it should...

first course of action, test your memory with memtest86 if your pc keeps rebooting, then try get hold of another PSU... if your system overheats it will shutdown automatically...

as for watercooling I think your budget will not stretch that far such that your wife will not find out... as water cooling is +-R3000 for a decent kit

so best bet is to get 3rd party GPU cooling... also remember to cool the mosfets and ram on the GPU's if you go this route.

I would suggest upping your PSU to 600W in any case. Your current unit is probably in sufficient for an 8800 GTS