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cooling down a computer

Discussion in 'Computers & Modding' started by kingofgamemasters777, Sep 30, 2008.

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  1. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    I have an akasa laptop cooler and it does an awesome job.
     
    Loonylion, Oct 2, 2008
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  2. kingofgamemasters777

    kingofgamemasters777 Well-Known Member

    i got my ram its a 1gig stick and i still have my 256mb sitck so all to gether i have 1.25gigs of ram, but it came at bad timing since my windows haves a virus, but atleast now i can run ubuntu and it runs pretty fast
     
    kingofgamemasters777, Oct 9, 2008
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  3. waylonn

    waylonn Well-Known Member

    Oh your lucky and unlucky dude!
     
    waylonn, Oct 10, 2008
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  4. vhiznu

    vhiznu Well-Known Member

    one 1gb ram is better than 2x512 ram...thats what i know..
    I'm using an athon athlon processor...people sez it is hotter than pentium processor...
    its always hang if its get hot...and blah..blah.... well not for me..
    the most important thing is... that you have to give more fan and space for your processor and HD...
    i have one on top of my processor and one below my HD...no problemo...24-7! ;D
     
    vhiznu, Oct 18, 2008
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  5. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    Not neccessarily. If that is all you have and it is dual channel ram, then 2x512MB is better because you can't use dual channel with a single stick, only a matched pair. Single channel cuts the ram speed by half.

    Other way around, it was the Pentiums that overheated, especially the Pentium 4s, which actually had a reputation for melting under intensive use. (the vice principal of my secondary school left his Pentium 4 laptop on overnight, when he got into his office the next day he found the processor had melted.) The Pentium 4 architecture is so bad (uses a rediculous amount of power, gets stupidly hot etc) that Intel abandoned it, and the new Core processors are actually built on the Pentium III architecture. AMDs have always been lower power and run cooler than Intels, though I don't know if that is still true with the Core series. A computing magazine actually compared an Athlon and a Pentium 4 by playing Quake 3 and removing the CPU cooler. The Athlon locked up within 10 minutes, and the Pentium 4 had smoke coming out of it before they finished removing the heatsink.
     
    Loonylion, Oct 18, 2008
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  6. hackerbannd

    hackerbannd Active Member

    Just get a new fan on your comp or as that guy said take the side off or buy those ones how the sides are clear with big holes in them
     
    hackerbannd, Oct 18, 2008
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  7. hackerbannd

    hackerbannd Active Member

    i got 1 big fan on the side and small one on the back u should get like a new fan and some ram and what do you mean it makes your computer slow in online games or what ?whats your graphics card ? if your laggy in online games maybe get a new graphics card
     
    hackerbannd, Oct 18, 2008
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  8. waylonn

    waylonn Well-Known Member

    lol, we have pentium 4s at our school
    I stole a sticker and placed it on my calculator o.o
     
    waylonn, Oct 29, 2008
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  9. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    I had a pentium 4 sticker on my pentium II laptop :p
     
    Loonylion, Oct 29, 2008
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  10. d7221

    d7221 New Member

    all i did was go to the technician or the support center where they either:
    1) replace your fan or;
    2) clean up your fan.

    option 1 should last about 3 or 4 years while option 2 lasts approx. 2 years
    :)
     
    d7221, Nov 21, 2008
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  11. Gietz

    Gietz Well-Known Member

    My pc has a cpu fan, vg card fan, fan in hard drive, a case fan and power supply fan
    The cpu fan is next to the funnel which takes all of the hot air out. That helps the cooling heaps.

    My system never runs over 25 degrees Celsius. Even after I left it on for 4 days.
     
    Gietz, Nov 22, 2008
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  12. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    Leaving it running will not cause it to get any hotter, stressing it does.
     
    Loonylion, Nov 22, 2008
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  13. Born2killx

    Born2killx Well-Known Member

    Yeah, like when running torture tests.
     
    Born2killx, Nov 22, 2008
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  14. Gietz

    Gietz Well-Known Member

    Note that while it was on it had lots of tf2 and cs being played.
     
    Gietz, Nov 23, 2008
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  15. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    those games aren't exactly heavy on modern systems.
     
    Loonylion, Nov 23, 2008
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  16. Gietz

    Gietz Well-Known Member

    TF2 is fairly.

    Also take into account that i run tf2 at max settings

    But cs1.6, takes nothing at all to run
     
    Gietz, Nov 23, 2008
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  17. zinectics

    zinectics Well-Known Member

    this works best for me
     
    zinectics, Nov 26, 2008
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  18. waylonn

    waylonn Well-Known Member

    If you want to run TF2 Extremly good.. you better have a high-end pc.

    CS 1.6 even runs easy on max at my old 1.5ghz and 512mb ram old Dell pc
     
    waylonn, Nov 27, 2008
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  19. Gietz

    Gietz Well-Known Member

    I do run TF2 very well. My PC is fairly powerful, but not a real beast. It has 2.5ghz core2duo, 2gb ram, 8600gt gfx (custom built).
    At max settings, and fullscreen/widescreen res i get a steady 80fps, but it has jumped up to 100 or so. But i max my fps rate at 60.

    CS hardly takes anything at all. I could run it easily on my old machine, which was like your dell one.
     
    Gietz, Nov 28, 2008
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