Is this in proportion??
ok heres what i got in my case... first of all i have an Aspire X-Dreamer II case with one intake on the window right above the CPU, one right next to the PSU (on top of the case) which is an exhaust, and also i have two exhausts in the back, so basicly i have 3 exhausts and 1 intake (note there is nothing in the front as an intake). Is this a good setup? thanks for your help 
P.S. at load my cpu temp is near 50 degrees C (Stock HS/F on AMD 2600+ Barton non-oc'ed), and my case temp is always around 30 degrees C.
P.S. at load my cpu temp is near 50 degrees C (Stock HS/F on AMD 2600+ Barton non-oc'ed), and my case temp is always around 30 degrees C.
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There was a review on a case somewhere around here... I'll do some digging and see what I come up with. Basically it showed that fans at the rear and top kept the case cooler while the system was at load, (and producing the most heat) but after the load was taken off, it took a while to cool the case down to normal idle temps.
I'm sure someone else will come along with a better answer.
Just as I remembered!
Two hyper major reasons for good low intake fans being present in volume in a tower are to promote airflow around video card and to releave backpressure settling effects on exhaust fan bearings. Also, faster movement of cooler air through whole box helps the RAM stay a tib cooler, the power circuitry on motherboard stay cooler, and the innards of the PSU stay cooler. Air from low front of case is cooler, and real warm air into PSU in volume, does not cool it vwery well. PSU is at top of most cases, or at least in top third where it is hotter. Someday will post pics of why I do not use top fans....
Well I say if you're that worried about temps, MANY people are very satisfied with SLK series heatsinks. I want to get the SP-94 for my P4. There is one like it for AXP's here. If you do decide to get one (they get expensive) watch your mobo!! These heatsinks get pretty heavy and ...bad things may happen if you put too much stress on the motherboard.
What is the points of that! Why not just tell the end-user what speed the processor actually is?? That is retarded.
I dunno really. 1.9@2.2 is just a 300MHz OC. Not that aggressive. You might even get away with default voltage, but then I don't really know how good an barton overclocks. Just kinda guessing based on my experiences so far with my 2.8 here. (My exp is quite limited, this is my first custom built computer and I've never actually used heatsinks other than stock ever.)
Average OC, air cooled, gets a 1.1 to 1.15 multiplied pure GHz increase. I had a 2500+ Barton at true 2.1 GHz, it broke the O\S's driver timings at 2.2 and at 2.1 it was air-temp-around-case sensitive.
Right now room temp in my room is 80 degrees fahrenheit-- now that the AC is on during day. The P4s are more stable, and I spent less on P4s and mothebroards than I would have had to spend on two W\C rigs. they can handle air around cases of 84-87 degrees fahrenheit without burping at all, when OC'd 200-400 MHz total per box. HEAT is what is keeping me from using Bartons right now, of the 3200+ variety. That and the fact that I do not have to use JEDEC relaxed RAM timings with the P4s I have. Standard timings work fine, hyper low latency no, try 2.5-3-3-7 for the Northwood with Corsair VS'd CMX which to boot is OC'd itself to DDR400 rates, and 2.5-3-3-6 for the Prescott box using Corsair C2PT. JEDEC relaxed timings of 3-4-4-8 are not needed for good grades of RAM on P4s unless you want to REALLY stretch your P4 and stick natively hyper-fast RAM in. DDR400 rates are exactly half the quadpumped rate nastive to a Prescott, and that is what these sticks are running 24\7 at.
RAM at half the quad native rate or 1 full normal step higher can run at medium normal latency and sync timings in a P4 box with the right motheboard, and both my boxes use IC7-Max3's for motherboards.
WHY??? Prescott is stable at 66-68 C, I know this as it has been there for 3 days now and has not burbled once. UNOC'd temp is 3-4 C less. The temp climb is so low compared to rate of climb the Barton ahd, with same HS compund on both and a better HS on the Barton before I retired it, that I use P4s due to being able to run longer at higher CPU die temps than Bartons. Heck, the OTES climbs temps faster than the CPU does, it is up 8-10 C from unOC'd temps-- and the whole box is stable, on slightly greater than normal air cooling.
BTW, my case temps are 90+. (Florida+No A/C+summer=HOT!