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Post by shumiferades on Mar 1, 2010 12:06:04 GMT
I got a new PC a year ago but never used it till recently because Vista and Talkshit modem didn't get on at all.
It's all sevened up now and I have a new ISP.
Any way twice in the last couple of weeks I've tripped the CPU thermal alarm.
First time was pretty much my fault as the casing was off and the sun came in the window.
Anyway today it did it again really just because it was a wee bit warm in here. So I'm thinking I may need to add extra cooling to my PC.
Any ideas?
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Post by f1maniac95 on Mar 1, 2010 15:46:20 GMT
First of all before you go and buy some more fans, buy a can of compressed air PCWorld sell it and some of the larger stores of Tesco about £5 max. Also buy some cable ties and get all the loose cables and just tie them together, this will help increase airflow. A good piece of software that I use as well is speedfan, you can use this to increase the speed of the fans and it will also display the temperature of various components of the computer. Also obviously where the computer is positioned is an issue as well, not right in the corner that it can't get any cool air and nowhere near a radiator. With the subject of case fans try and get 120mm ones with larger fan blades, they don't spin as fast as smaller ones but are much better at getting air around the case because of the size of the fans.
Hope I've helped Nathan
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Post by shumiferades on Mar 1, 2010 16:40:17 GMT
Hey Nathan thanks for the ideas.
My PC is kind of in a courner right now but it has to be next to the router untill I get a wireless adaptor.
I didn’t know that you can get software to speed up the fan but will this possible cause the fan to burn out?
There is hardly any clutter inside the box and the CPU heat sink actualy has a tube attacked to suck air right from the vent.
I was thinking some extra case fans would be a good idea just so the it is a bit cooler in there. How do you install these drill or snip holes in the case?
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Post by f1maniac95 on Mar 1, 2010 16:55:11 GMT
Some extra case fans would be a very good idea. From looking at my old case I think you might just be able to drill holes in to fix the fan. Make sure that you measure the width of the entire fan component as accurately as you can. A lot of this stuff I have said is based upon my old case so there might be some differences with your computer.
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Post by shumiferades on Mar 1, 2010 17:51:59 GMT
What was the can of compressed air for to get rid of dust?
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Post by f1maniac95 on Mar 1, 2010 18:06:02 GMT
Yeah pretty much it works a lot better than just a balloon pump or something like that and it will still be getting dust out when you can't see any anymore and you think its all gone.
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Post by smithyf1 on Mar 1, 2010 23:46:28 GMT
agree with nathan, dust and tidy the cables up makes the biggest difference! and it's cheaper if it works lol
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Post by shumiferades on Mar 2, 2010 19:30:56 GMT
Well it's really not very dusty as it's hardly been used but likely it's something I want to keep on top of.
Today it's didn't want to start at all. I had to open it up and push on all the connectors before it would go on.
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Post by f1maniac95 on Mar 2, 2010 19:49:02 GMT
If your computer isn't powering on when you press the power button and you have to push all the all the connectors then it sounds like your power supply unit is starting to die and you've hardly used that computer at all and hardware is really supposed to survive at least 1500 power on cycles.
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Post by shumiferades on Mar 2, 2010 20:24:47 GMT
Had it less than a year so I might go back to PC world about this.
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Post by f1maniac95 on Mar 2, 2010 20:46:01 GMT
Definitely talk to PCWorld about it because a Power Supply Unit should be able to last several years at least.
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