Volcano 7+ Homebrew

[madmat]

I just thought I'd post some pics of my volcano 7+ that I modded to accept an 80mm fan then tossed a Tornado mounted to a homebrewed duct consisting of a gutted 80x25mm fan onto the top of it.
It cooled pretty well after I angled the fins out to increase the airflow through them then wound some black tape underneath the duct to direct the air to flow through the fins rather than around them.
I netted about a 3 degree C. improvement in the cpu temp with that addition.
In the bios for my Soyo Dragon KT400 chipset mobo the under CPU diode was reporting 48C under load while the on die diode was showing 63C.

[Thrax]

Why.. It's almost like putting new tires on a dead car! :D

[madmat]

I did that close to 10 months ago...I just thought I'd share it.

[Thrax]

Nah. It's cool.

Hardware modding is some fun stuff. Looks pretty good too. I like the idea of using another fan for flow control.

[Geeky1]

Looks good, but the temps seem awfully high to me... I would expect something more like 45*C max...

Obviously, this isn't the same system as the one in your sig... what CPU does it have?

[madmat]

Barton 2500+ but I'm not sure of what week but it was pretty early into the barton fab, not much headroom, 2100mhz or so max on the KT 400 chipset. Of course I never ran it hard on the SN41-G2 but the guy I sold it too took it up to 12x183 with it and it was stable but very hot.
I was running it at 1.85v core on the Soyo as it'd get unstable below that.
The bottom fan is completely gutted, it's really just there to get rid of the dead spot under the fan and it helped in temps, especially when coupled with the tape to focus the air.

[madmat]

BTW those temps were without running the fan terribly fast, it'd get down to 55C on die or 40C under die, I wanted to be able to play movies and games without blasting my speakers...I used to keep my rig on my desk and it was just plain noisey.

[Geeky1]

Ok, then with those conditions, those temps are pretty damn good.