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04-15-2009, 10:25 AM
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Ultra Techie Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 511
|  What if temps start to rise?
What can you do if temps start to rise on items such as the hard drive and onboard video? What does it mean if they start to rise? This would be on a prebuilt machine if that makes a difference.
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04-15-2009, 10:31 AM
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Lord Techie Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 5,008
| Re: What if temps start to rise?
It means that your coooling is not sufficient and you can downclock any chipsets or cpu which overheating and with hdd's you move them around to an area of better airflow.
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04-15-2009, 11:38 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Toronto, Canada Posts: 5,486
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You can also buy higher airflow fans to cool the case more.
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04-15-2009, 12:10 PM
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Master Techie Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: In Gov't Regulated Cubical Posts: 2,782
| Re: What if temps start to rise?
Or clean it out..
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04-15-2009, 12:49 PM
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Monster Techie Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: NW. w00t. Posts: 1,169
| Re: What if temps start to rise?
A case that disspenses heat well, good airlow, good cable managment, and keeping canned air handy to blow out the dust. That's how you fight heat. Historically, every couple of weeks I blow out my case with canned air to prevent any dust build up. But depending on the room your comps in and where, it may build up dust faster or slower.
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04-16-2009, 01:53 PM
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Formerly charles_scott Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 4,627
| Re: What if temps start to rise?
Everything will rise in temp no matter what cooling method you use, even on dice or ln2, it will rise, a small increase, doesn't hurt, but a huge one will.
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04-16-2009, 01:55 PM
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Lord Techie Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 5,008
| Re: What if temps start to rise?
Does anyone remember the guy who use to put ice in his computer when his chipset temps started to rise?
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04-16-2009, 02:07 PM
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Junior Techie Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Minnesota, USA Posts: 57
| Re: What if temps start to rise?
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Originally Posted by saltynay  Does anyone remember the guy who use to put ice in his computer when his chipset temps started to rise? | Someone actually did that?:rolleyes:
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04-16-2009, 02:47 PM
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Lord Techie Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 5,008
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Yeah its up there with the person who cut off the end of his graphics card with scissors as it wouldn't fit in his case and there was a dotted line which looked similar to a "cut here" line.
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04-16-2009, 03:39 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Morgantown, WV Posts: 5,265
| Re: What if temps start to rise?
Wow...what an epic fail...
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