BBA
08-09-2002, 9:57 AM
I decided to splurge. Now I have to back track.
I have some heat sink issues to resolve...namely why the Thermaltake Volcano 7+ I just got is not cooling as well as the Intel stock heatsink.
This is what happenned: My stock Intel heatsink temp with radio shack compound was idle at about 40ºC and games at about 50-52º. When I put the volcano in, idle temp went UP to 47º and gaming went to 60º ( or at least my alarm went off, which is set at 60º.) I tried two types of silver compound ( arctic silver 2 and Stars 360 silver compound ) as well as the Dow/Corning compound ( came with the Thermaltake ) and, the new compound radio shack is selling ( it's better than the old compound they used to sale ).
I think the problem has a lot to do with the amount of overclocking I am doing along with the amount of airflow in my system case. The case airflow is actually restricted by the volcano fan assembly!!!
For the case, I have two 65 CFM 120VAC fans in a wind tunnel arrangement. The one fan blows directly onto the CPU, the other is in the upper area of the case exhausting air. I think the additive flow probably gives me about 100CFM through the case total.
The thermaltake fan, on high speed is rated at 48 CFM ( and sounds like a LARGE HAIRDRYER...YUK!!! ) in the closed area blowing on the fins inside a shroud. The reason Intel heatsink works better must simply due to having larger gaps between the heat sink fins which do NOT restrict any airflow from my case fans.
But, to be fair, maybe in a case with lesser airflow, the Thermaltake would cool better than a stock Intel, but not in my case. To see if this is tru, and to be fair to Thermaltake, I just gave it to a friend running the same setup with a regular case.
At present I ended up with the Intel fan/heatsink and the silver compound. ( the compounds made very little difference in general ).
My next step is to add a 1/8" copper plate between the Intel heatsink and the CPU. That seems to be what worked well for me in the past.
I have some heat sink issues to resolve...namely why the Thermaltake Volcano 7+ I just got is not cooling as well as the Intel stock heatsink.
This is what happenned: My stock Intel heatsink temp with radio shack compound was idle at about 40ºC and games at about 50-52º. When I put the volcano in, idle temp went UP to 47º and gaming went to 60º ( or at least my alarm went off, which is set at 60º.) I tried two types of silver compound ( arctic silver 2 and Stars 360 silver compound ) as well as the Dow/Corning compound ( came with the Thermaltake ) and, the new compound radio shack is selling ( it's better than the old compound they used to sale ).
I think the problem has a lot to do with the amount of overclocking I am doing along with the amount of airflow in my system case. The case airflow is actually restricted by the volcano fan assembly!!!
For the case, I have two 65 CFM 120VAC fans in a wind tunnel arrangement. The one fan blows directly onto the CPU, the other is in the upper area of the case exhausting air. I think the additive flow probably gives me about 100CFM through the case total.
The thermaltake fan, on high speed is rated at 48 CFM ( and sounds like a LARGE HAIRDRYER...YUK!!! ) in the closed area blowing on the fins inside a shroud. The reason Intel heatsink works better must simply due to having larger gaps between the heat sink fins which do NOT restrict any airflow from my case fans.
But, to be fair, maybe in a case with lesser airflow, the Thermaltake would cool better than a stock Intel, but not in my case. To see if this is tru, and to be fair to Thermaltake, I just gave it to a friend running the same setup with a regular case.
At present I ended up with the Intel fan/heatsink and the silver compound. ( the compounds made very little difference in general ).
My next step is to add a 1/8" copper plate between the Intel heatsink and the CPU. That seems to be what worked well for me in the past.