New Case for my Barton box complete & F@H

Straight_ManStraight_Man Geeky, in my own wayNaples, FL Icrontian
edited November 2003 in Hardware
My Barton loves its new Antec SOHO 1000AMG case with a decent 500W PSU in it-- I am running 4 80 mm high-capacity fans (two panalfo H12A equivs in, two Antecs out) plus the push-pull pair on the 500W PSU, so technically I am using a decent flow of 12V just for fans-- PSU can handle much more laod than box needs now, by Feb I hope to upgrade things some so I slightly overspeced it (I would stick a 430W in box as built to match needs now). It cooled down here yesterday late and today, so lets see what the case ambient and CPU temps are with no AC and all windows wide open here in Forida (brief pause while he KVMs to Barton box)--- Case ambient is 28 C(floats 26-32 C ovrall), CPU is 46 C (floats 44-50 C overall) with oldstyle AMD Barton heatsink-- newer Stock AMD Barton and Opteron one has a strange silver plate added to aluminum heatsink, looks like a Steel alloy designed to stop Aluminum's tendency to spot heat too much and to instead spread heat further over bottom of heatsink compared to other metal possibilities like a copper insert. Since CPU is still stable at 54+ C, no problem there.

John.

Comments

  • csimoncsimon Acadiana Icrontian
    edited November 2003
    hey john ...do you have a digital camera? some pics would sure be nice to compare ...sounds wonderful and well planned.
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited November 2003
    Ageek... that plate is nickel plated copper. Steel's thermal conductivity is far too low for it to be an effective heatsink material for high-powered CPUs.
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