Computer cooling

[jdurg]

the fastest clock speed ever recorded was 5.25GHz

 

see here:

http://www20.tomshardware.com/cpu/20031230/

 

there's a video which is quite good' date=' shows all the set-up, they used liquid nitrogen cooling... i dont know what speed it was originally, but it did go to 5.25GHz and that is still a world record [i'](as far as i am aware)[/i]

 

Yeah, I saw that when it first came out. They used a P4 3.4GHz CPU to do the overclocking. The architechture of the P4 (Northwood) they used is a good architechture that can run at 5+ GHz under EXTREME conditions. So that is possible. Any CPU which is designed to run at 333MHz, however, does not have the physical ability to run at 5+ GHz. That was the thing I was disputing in my first post.

[mossoi]

I'd say a bit more than 4mins... especially seeing as if in general use of your computer you do something straining on the processor (rendering images, latest games, heavy multitasking) then it can cause it to produce more heat than if you were just using a word processor as it'd be being used more.

That's why I qualified my statement to exclude different loads.

 

Just out of interest I took the side panels off my case and my CPU temperature jumped up by 4C.

[5614]

Just out of interest I took the side panels off my case and my CPU temperature jumped up by 4C.

a few possibilities:

 

1) you have a good case which is so well designed its better to leave it as it is

2) the room is hot

3) near a radiator

4) intense lighting nearby causes the thermistor or wtvr it is measuring the temp to heat up.

5) your just using your processor a lot today!

6) you pet crawled into your computer and is sleeping on the heatsink!

 

i dunno, as i said... this is just what i've found for me, im not saying applies to everyone.

[Silencer]

It's likely he has a good case meant to keep the air flowing.

 

I think I'm going to get a nice 120mm sleave or liquid bearing case fan to get more air going through mine.

[mossoi]

It's the case - there's 2 fans at the front drawing air in, 2 exhausts at the back and 1 exhaust at the top. A quick count reveals 7 fans in total - more than I thought.

 

As you say, it depends on the case.

[Silencer]

^That's ridiculous.

 

Right now mine only has the ones in the PSU (which don't really count) and the one on the CPU heatsink.

 

That's it; I've even replaced the northbridge fan with a passive heatsink.

[mossoi]

It certainly is but that's what came with the harware.

 

Heh, I didn't count the one in the PSU.