I have just recently been in contact with setting up more and more OEM machines for people I know, and I can say that the OEM cooling included with many PCs is outrageous, most not even considering the heat produced by internal components...
i think this is mainly a rant, but here is the example of what was placed in front of me:
1x Athlon XP 1600 w/ 512Mb DDR
1x IBM 60GXP 40Gb 7200rpm drive
1x 32x16x12 CDRW
1x Geforce2 MX400 w/orb lookalike
there were other components, but these are you heat-sources, think about how much heat this thing would be creating, just idling...
now, strapped on to that lovely new CPU was some fukn takeoff of a Tt ORB from a company called Agilent, as seen in the picture on this page, but it wasn't, much the same as a Tt Mini Super Orb, and we all know how ****e they are...anyway, the only other fan in the system was that of the PSU (300W, another hot one) all this sitting in a neatly routed midi-tower case.
plug this baby in, turn her on, and after 10 minutes idle, we had a lovely 45 C (case temp 32). so I waited a little while longer, ran some burn-in proggie, and i got the temp to 58, a bloody disgrace, suffice to say, the best i could do for them in the short term was to wack in an intake and exhaust fan, and tell them to keep regular backups of their HD cos it'll prolly die from the heat in that box! (extra fans bought the idle temps to 42, case temp to a nice 22 - that cooler just couldn't cut it!)
i was just wondering if anyone else is an OEM or receives OEM goods and can tell me if they are seeing the same trend? even the HSF strapped on a P4 is pretty measly, and it runs hot too!
i think this is mainly a rant, but here is the example of what was placed in front of me:
1x Athlon XP 1600 w/ 512Mb DDR
1x IBM 60GXP 40Gb 7200rpm drive
1x 32x16x12 CDRW
1x Geforce2 MX400 w/orb lookalike
there were other components, but these are you heat-sources, think about how much heat this thing would be creating, just idling...
now, strapped on to that lovely new CPU was some fukn takeoff of a Tt ORB from a company called Agilent, as seen in the picture on this page, but it wasn't, much the same as a Tt Mini Super Orb, and we all know how ****e they are...anyway, the only other fan in the system was that of the PSU (300W, another hot one) all this sitting in a neatly routed midi-tower case.
plug this baby in, turn her on, and after 10 minutes idle, we had a lovely 45 C (case temp 32). so I waited a little while longer, ran some burn-in proggie, and i got the temp to 58, a bloody disgrace, suffice to say, the best i could do for them in the short term was to wack in an intake and exhaust fan, and tell them to keep regular backups of their HD cos it'll prolly die from the heat in that box! (extra fans bought the idle temps to 42, case temp to a nice 22 - that cooler just couldn't cut it!)
i was just wondering if anyone else is an OEM or receives OEM goods and can tell me if they are seeing the same trend? even the HSF strapped on a P4 is pretty measly, and it runs hot too!
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