I have been noticing that my box has been heating up, lately. Actually it has always ran hot but now that I am going to be needing it on a regular basis, running cool would be the preferred method to operate. With that said I bought a fan that clips on my desk to increase air circulation around the box, since it sits in a corner on the floor under my desk. The box itself has 2 case fans, as well as the CPU fan and the fan on the video card, but ever since I got the AMD chip the box ranks as the hottest I have ever owned. You put in a CD for a few minutes into either drive and it comes out very hot to the touch.
The clip on fan was a piece of s*#t, and easily broke off with the force of my knee a couple of times and the chair a few others. So I went out and bought a different fan, only this time it is bigger and mounted. I have a couple of pics, here and here to show you what I mean. This is a bit extreme, but what the hell, I would rather have this than a bill for a new board or CPU.
So this afternoon when it got too hot I shut down and went out and played a round of golf, which was my best round yet this year, I was only one over on the front; we won't talk about the back side. Oh well, now that I have "Kewl Runnins" I better get back to some code.
Posted by Muckhead at June 4, 2003 05:23 PM
