Folding Again

NorgeNorge Sidney, Ohio
edited April 2004 in Folding@Home
Well it's been about two weeks since I've last run folding but I'm back in action. I had to turn it off for a while since I was having overheating problems with my computer. Last night I moved everything into my new case (complete with my swanky new LED Fans and UV light/cables) and the computer is running as a nice cool 40C with folding running. Before I was running at about 56C with folding so it is a large improvement. Anyhoo my contribution should start coming in again.

Norge

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  • csimoncsimon Acadiana Icrontian
    edited April 2004
    wow ...what case did you get? I wish my temps were that great!
    actually my bigger issue is with the system temp but its not much better than the cpu temp. I average about 46c cpu and 26c system ...if either gets 4c warmer I get instability.
    are you overclocking?

    Oh yeah ...welcome back!!! :fold:
  • NorgeNorge Sidney, Ohio
    edited April 2004
    The case I got is a Cheiftec Dragon. It is a pretty good case. I have two front intake fans, two rear exhaust fans, two fans in my PSU, and, of course, the fan on my heatsink. I'm going to try and find a window that I can put my red/blue LED fan in since my current windows lacks the fan hole. I also have the thin cables to replace the typical ribbon cables to help air flow. It is a very convenient case as well. I'm not overclocking though so that is probably one reason the temps are so low. I've never been able to keep a case cool enough to try it but now I might. :D

    Norge
  • mmonninmmonnin Centreville, VA
    edited April 2004
    He has the non-barton 2800+ so it runs at 2.25 Ghz already.
  • Straight_ManStraight_Man Geeky, in my own way Naples, FL Icrontian
    edited April 2004
    Norge wrote:
    The case I got is a Cheiftec Dragon. It is a pretty good case. I have two front intake fans, two rear exhaust fans, two fans in my PSU, and, of course, the fan on my heatsink. I'm going to try and find a window that I can put my red/blue LED fan in since my current windows lacks the fan hole. I also have the thin cables to replace the typical ribbon cables to help air flow. It is a very convenient case as well. I'm not overclocking though so that is probably one reason the temps are so low. I've never been able to keep a case cool enough to try it but now I might. :D

    Norge

    Excellent, Chieftecs are nice! For ahole, you could lay some masking tape on the plastic (BOTH sides, two layers thick each side) and then use a fine-toothed hole saw that is a bit smaller than the hole you want (then use a piece of sandpaper, wet\dry, 220 grit, to bevel it nicely working round around along the hole's edge (wear work gloves if you have hands not hardened by construction)), but http://www.pctoyland.com/ has some Windows-- so does Cyberguys, at http://www.cyberguys.com/ or http://www.extremegeek.com/ (BOTH are owned by the same company).

    Funny thing about two layers of masking tape on both sides, it works almost as good as the brown paper with plastic backing that covers lexan. Sheet of lexan, cut hole first, very little spalling if you use a fine toothed metal-cutting hole saw-- not a coarse wood hole saw. Also, the hole saw does not skip around when it has to go through tape, and the slight sideways skipping causes more spalling effects than folks normally think would cause that-- most of them, in fact.

    John D.
  • NorgeNorge Sidney, Ohio
    edited April 2004
    Hey thanks a lot for the tips on cutting the hole and all of the links. I havn't decided how I am going to go about it yet. If I decide to cut the whole myself instead of buying the window I think I have a fine toothed saw somewhere I can use. I just hope I can keep my hand steady enough not to screw it up :D

    Norge
  • profdlpprofdlp The Holy City Of Westlake, Ohio
    edited April 2004
    Ageek wrote:
    ...For ahole, you could lay some masking tape on the plastic ...
    What did you call me? :bigggrin:
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