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post #1 of 17
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Ok so i thought about overclocking my old junk (amd athlon 4400+ brisbane 65nm chipset) from 2.3ghz stock up to 2.85 ghz but the problem i'^m facing is that the temperature is going 60-66°c at full load. I've somehow dropped those temps to 62°c at full load but i'm not satisfied. I have no money to spend at all since i'm just a student but i was looking at different guides here in the section and i saw people using car radiators and all that which seems to be very creative but ridiculous at the same time because of those huge things ruining the look of your system and taking up space...

All in all, i was thinking about doing something within my case (it's a small HP pavilion case and i believe the motherboard i have is micro atx you call it with am2 chipset.

Today i went down in the parking lot and just realised that there's this place where there are A LOT of cardboard pieces laying around and i was wondering if i can somehow use these cardboard pieces as a cooler/heatsink/exhaust pipe

Please help me out, i cannot play games lol, my computer goes crazy....
post #2 of 17
You could use the cardboard to direct the airflow to make it more effective and improve the circulation around the case

Some pics might be nice
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post #3 of 17
Take the side of the case off and use a house fan to blow cool air directly on the mobo. Short of that you will be spending money.
 
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post #4 of 17
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Take the side of the case off and use a house fan to blow cool air directly on the mobo. Short of that you will be spending money.

i don't think it would affect cpu temperature to fall down by a large margin but 1-2°c...plus the electricity used would just go to waste..
post #5 of 17
My question to you is does the overclock actually get much better frame rates?
because unless you have a much newer card then the rest of the system the card itself is probably the bottle neck.
post #6 of 17
i would think the fan in to the side would work good,i had a case with a 25cm fan in the side,it is colder than my coolermaster cosmos.it should drop you 5c ish.
if you can duct in air from out side to the fan,even better.
    
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post #7 of 17
If a boost in airflow won't drop his temps, then ducting his airflow won't help either.
The temperatures really aren't that bad, therefore, there isn't much to do.
post #8 of 17
pull off some of the ducting from the back of your cloths dryer, usually there is an over abundance of this on the back of dryers.
clean out the inside, take off the grill/face plate on your A/C vent (if you have central air) or semi-same thing with in window A/C, stuff the hose into there and run it into the pc case hovering over the cpu.
i did something simular a while back with my pc trying to get the highest oc i could with the stock fan before going water cooling.
temps not under load were around 12c under load was around 19-23c
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Jollyriffic View Post

pull off some of the ducting from the back of your cloths dryer, usually there is an over abundance of this on the back of dryers.
clean out the inside, take off the grill/face plate on your A/C vent (if you have central air) or semi-same thing with in window A/C, stuff the hose into there and run it into the pc case hovering over the cpu.
i did something simular a while back with my pc trying to get the highest oc i could with the stock fan before going water cooling.
temps not under load were around 12c under load was around 19-23c

heh I've done this in the winter...

duct tape and flexible duct work from the window to my intake.

pure ghetto-fabulous
post #10 of 17
tape it to the front of your car, case opened and no fans to restrickt airflow smile.gif
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