[wplug] Cool Cases

[coldfire]

> On Sun, Oct 06, 2002 at 03:07:38PM -0400, Zach Paine wrote:
> > I am fairly certain that my box is overheating, and I'm looking to buy a new 
> > case and perhaps some cooling paraphenalia.  I have a 1.33ghz Athlon and a 
> > nVidia GeForce2 GTS which both generate a lot of heat.  Can any recommend a 
> > good, cool case and/or provide some general cooling suggestions?  I'm not 
> > looking to spend much more than $100.
> 
> I've become a big fan of Antec cases.  Well-made and easy to work with.
> Chieftec is the company who actually makes them (I think) but Antec puts
> in much better power supplies (very important).

yeah, i like the antec cases a lot .. i have a 1040sx or something like
that.  small, but big enough to hold all of my devices.  nice 400w power
supply came with it too.

> As for cooling, Coolermaster fan/heatsink was recommended to me and for
> $10 they are pretty damn good and not too noisy.
> 
> I have an Antec 1080AMG (it's big, w/430W PSU) and two Coolermaster
> DP5-6J31C-01s (2 Athlon MP 2000+) and the CPUs almost never go over 45C,
> usually 35-40C.
> 
> Grab a front 80mm case fan for extra circulation ($5) and possibly look
> into getting a case with a side-fan (mine has that, it's neat, but
> probably adds somewhat to the cost).
> 
> Using something like Arctic Silver 3 (properly, of course) may help drop
> your CPU temp another couple degrees.

as far as fans go, i've always found sunon and delta fans to perform very
well and i have yet for one of them to cinch up.



coldie