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03-10-2004, 12:05 AM
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 |  Cold Cathodes I was thinking about purchasing some of these. Do they do anything for cooling purposes? I see that they are called "cold" cathodes, but they are lights; or do they just emit light that generates no heat. Looks cool though.
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03-10-2004, 12:11 AM
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|  They are lights that generate little to no heat. I think they need to put "cold" in the title because otherwise, nobody will buy them with the assumption that they give off heat and harm their precious 'puters.
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03-10-2004, 02:24 AM
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  | actually they can put out quite a bit of heat, as i have 9 total in my computer, 11 if the count the dual cathode grills, it creates an extra 5-7F in my case, turning them off lowers my temps quite noticably...
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03-10-2004, 08:18 AM
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| Hmm, that's not quite what I need. I need as less heat as possible.
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03-10-2004, 09:00 AM
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| the guy said he had an excessive number in his case and it raised the ambient temperature by virtually nothing... if you just stick a couple in it has no noticable effect on temps!
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03-10-2004, 12:43 PM
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| Yeah, I was thinking about that. LED's give off more light and I know they don't give off heat, so I will have to look into that. I think it would be cool to have a strip of green LED's in a case. Blue has been overused and is no longer that cool looking to me anymore.
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03-11-2004, 01:12 PM
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| ehm, LED don't give off more light hehe.. maybe if you put like 20 LEDs at the bottom of your pc along with a mirror down there, that could work, but i would disagree very much, that cathodes are quite brighter
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03-11-2004, 01:13 PM
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| Most people don't use 9-11 cold cathodes, and I wouldn't call 5-7F a noticeable temp change.
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