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oliverstirling
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In fact this was a "closed-loop" liquid cooling system, the CoolIt ECO A.L.C that failed on me and leaked all over my system. Closed loop systems are not immune from failure. Bummer, was merely trying to promote the benefits of hassle free water cooling - though as you say components have a finite life cycle and there's no reason why closed loop systems would be immune from this. |
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Hardnews
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There's always the desire to get as much work done as possible, but it's also possible to drop the CPU usage down a few percent to keep air-cooled systems quiet without spending a fortune on more gear.
Heresy, I know. :-) |
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oliverstirling
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it's also possible to drop the CPU usage down a few percent to keep air-cooled systems quiet I know what you mean, my first PWM CPU air cooler drove me mad with the noise change ramping up and down in sync with the CPU load cycle until I tweaked the settings! |
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Richard Mitnick
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skgiven-
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ryan222h
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skgiven- How does one reduce voltage? You have to have a motherboard that supports voltage changes. You go into the BIOS and there will be a place where you can change it. Its a matter of expirimenting with different voltages and then stress testing the system to make sure it can handle less voltage....If it can't the system will shut down but rarely do any damage. The damage occurs when overvolting, generally speaking.  [Edit 1 times, last edit by ryan222h at May 3, 2012 2:50:13 AM] |
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Hardnews
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Update on the Fractal Designs Define mATX case:
----------------------------------------This smartly designed box comes with filters for the two front 120mm fans, and also a removable filter on the base of the case to de-fluff what goes through the power supply - and the other 120mm fan in the base. All the fans 'push; air into the case and are on a controller set to very low speed. There's an i7-2600K in there, running 90%, 24/7. After a month of running inside my 'clean' house, both nylon filters are opaque with dust and fibres. The fibres look like they're from the new carpet, the dust looks like, (gasp) it's from me. Urrgh. Keep those crunch-boxes vacuumed out. [Edit 1 times, last edit by Hardnews at May 5, 2012 1:08:04 PM] |
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Dont use a vacuum. You'll shock something. Best to use compressed air.
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Hardnews
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I don't think I need compressed air to blow the dust from my computer's external filters back into my house, do I?
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pramo
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I don't think I need compressed air to blow the dust from my computer's external filters back into my house, do I? No, carry the box outside and do it... I use a shop vac set to blow, it does wonders. I do put my finger on the various fans so they dont get to spinning madly, also take a small wooden dowel through the grill of the PSU to keep them still Maybe it's just me but after vaccuming everything to what I thought was clean, it was a big surprise the amount of stuff came out on the blow setting   |
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