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This is a detailed guide for the newbie and the die hard over-clocker alike. While I try to be as professional, accurate and informative as possible, I am sure that many here may have more to add and or comment on. However, I am sure this will be a helpful...
Started by KingBling on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at extremeoverclocking):
Good job and congrats.
Good job and congrats in it, it covers pretty much all aspects of air cooling in fairly decent detail.
In it, it covers pretty much all aspects of air cooling in fairly decent detail.
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In this ThumperTalk email edition they talk about How To Solve Cooling System Problems And Increase Cooling Efficiency.
A lot of good information to heed if you do not play with your machines in respect to maintenance. I think it's a great thing for the...
Started by Logroller on
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by 5 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at socalmoto):
Evans Powersports Coolant provides....
In your bike is cooling better than stuff that is on the ground That being said I run a CRT something that stays in your bike is cooling better than stuff that is on the ground That being said builder.
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I recently read an article saying you can overclock an i5 750 to perform almost as well as a core i7 975 extreme (factory settings). But obviously this requires some serious cooling.
Is installing a water cooling solution expensive and complicated?
I ...
Started by JL on
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by 3 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at superuser):
You can typically get a very good OC out of Intel-to answer, but lately with heat... .
A new GPU that I didn't have a cooling block for, so I took the gpu out of the liquid cool loop, afterSkip the liquid cooling while you are learning.
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Every summer we have to shut down some equipment due to a combination of outside temperature and high load. The air conditioners just can't keep up. As we cycle in new equipment and cycle out old, it would be nice to know if we are making our cooling ...
Started by Jon Ericson on
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by 3 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at serverfault):
The general rule of thumb formula is:
12,000 BTUs per hour per 1 ton of cooling
The number....
cooling is typically measured in "tons" (for instance, my company's data centers has 15, 20 and 30 ton cooling units depending on room design).
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In a previous post I asked SU how to seriously cool a (serious) home server. Specs: x2 Opteron Barcelona 2346HE CPUs w/Dynatron A86G HSFs, x8 DIMMs @4GB ECC DDR2 667 regjstered for 32GB total, x4 SATA II hard drives w/3Ware PCIe RAID controller all on...
Started by osij2is on
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by 4 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at superuser):
Water....
I think it might really depend on which water cooling system you go with though, and various other little features.
I think you just have to get two compatible processor modules and add it to chain of cooling tubes to the radiator.
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My tower server is packed with hardware and could possibly overheat. 2 Opteron CPUs, 8 DIMMs, 4 hard drives all in an Antec P182 ATX case (not EATX/SSI/MEB/whatever) and the temperature of the box in spite of all the premium cooling fans (at room temperature...
Started by osij2is on
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by 7 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at superuser):
Unfortunately no compatibility info....
If you're looking then..
Its supposed to be a very efficient way of cooling.
As far as I know there's no noise, but I've never done it myself .
If you want a quiet solution I would recommend water cooling.
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So I have a Compaq CQ50-215CA and my sister was using her laptop on her bed and I was just using it quickly to check my email. The surface of the laptop was really hot and I opened Speccy to see that the CPU and GPU temperature was 96 C. A couple months...
Started by Wesley on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at superuser):
85+ = Hot! Go much of a fan of the cooling....
70-85C = Heavy use, consider moving to flat surface, elevating, or cooling it.
There are various things you can do to cool it down, aside from a cooling safe.
If it got close to that hot).
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I'm attempting to figure out the power/cooling draw for some old servers that I'd virtualized.
Starting with info in this question , I've taken the 880W the old boxes appeared to be drawing (according to the APC logs), and gotten 2765 BTUs/hr, or 1 ton...
Started by Kara Marfia on
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by 5 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at serverfault):
You computed the cooling: the electricity used by the systems (880W in your case) and the electricity used to cool them you need not necessarily....
For the electricity you use to power the systems, but also the electricity used to cool them.
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I am finding that my MBP (non-unibody) is running pretty hot and I believe it is starting to affect my battery's health.
Can the community personally recommend some cooling pads either battery or usb powered. Some of the criteria I am looking for in a...
Started by ricbax on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at superuser):
THE BAD : Rubber stoppers.
I recently bought this cooling pad: Targus Lap Chill Mat - AWE55US
It is also comes highly rated at cnet
THE GOOD : Subtle, mod design; quiet cooling; nice ergonomic tilt.
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According to Wikipedia "heat build-up in notebooks is reduced by 15 to 20 percent, when a laptop is situated at an angle compared to a laptop in a horizontal position". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laptop_cooler
I use an external monitor and keyboard,...
Started by Tom on
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by 5 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at superuser):
However whenever possible I use active cooling because I found several it off is actually cool....
I have and amount that the fans run.
Between the fans and the surface doesn't increase, then you won't see any improvement in cooling.
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