Testing:
Test system:
» AMD 3800 X2 with Arctic Cooling 64 Freezer Pro CPU fan/heat-sink combo
» NVIDIA 7600gt with stock fan/heat-sink on (cost more than motherboard and fan/hs combined)
» ECS KN1 SLI EXTREME motherboard (yes I'm one poor mofo)
» X1 80mm case fan
» NVIDIA's control panel for temperature sensor.
What I'm about to do here is pretty much turning on the software (CS:S, WMP, MS:WORD, etc) and then use Window's print screen to snap a picture of NVIDIA's control panel. For the test with CS:S on, I'm going to go ahead and join the server, play for roughly one minute, hit ALT really quick and use window's print screen.
Here is the tower in the freezing October night where CPU: 33C; SYSTEM: 37C; GPU: 50C. In the summer, it becomes so bad that I can't even turn my computer on sometimes. Yeah I know, I don't have the luxury of air conditioning. This is my tower without my homemade air cooling system running at idle. There are two fans running the CPU fan and one 80mm case fan for all three test pictures.
With my homemade air cooling system running at idle. External fan running at quiet low speed.
Note: For some odd reason at medium and high speed, the temp doesn't vary much at all when it's at idle.
Running my cooling system with the following software active: Nero, Counter Strike: Source, Microsoft Word, and Windows Media Player 11. Fan is currently running at low speed.
Note: This is a really, really good temperature for all of these things to be on simultaneously. The temperature only varied by a couple of degrees, even though under much stress.
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