[mythtv-users] Yet another noobie sanity check ;-)

[Stephen Tait]

By way of explanation, my dad is an electrical engineer, and he's instilled 
the urge to keep all my systems as cool as possible. I used to be worried 
that my P3 1GHz ran at over 25 degrees...

I'm sure that CPU's don't mind that much, but I've seen a fair few HD's die 
from heat exhaustion, or so I was told. The controller chips on some brands 
(Fujitsu and Maxtor were some affected models a while back IIRC) seem very 
sensitive to heat.

Perhaps my first proper hardware mod can be to replace the boiler with a 
watercooling system on my PC's. If only more central heating systems were 
so efficient and mod-friendly...

My main desktop (2800 barton) runs at about 40, but it's got a sink on it 
with the surface area of Delaware with a case temp of about 35 (too many 
damned hard drives and optical drives in this thing). My Myth box with a 
2400 on it runs at about 40. Hard drives and GFX cards are probably the 
biggest heat pumpers in my setups, not to mention the PVR-250 when it gets 
going...

>HI!
>
>Stephen Tait wrote:
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>>Personally, I consider these temperatures unacceptably high for a system 
>>that's going to be on all the time. The Aria is a very cramped case, and 
>>IIRC those old Athlon TBreds kick out a fair bit more heat than the newer 
>>and higher performing Bartons.
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>Hmm, my system will get also that high in summer. And I have a normal 
>desktop case with 2 case fans and a power supply with 2 fans. GeForce 
>FX5200 without fan, 2 Hauppauge, 1 7200rpm HD, Celeron 2.6 with Zalman cooler.
>
>In spring, I have 41 celsius board temperature, in summer I have 49. CPU 
>from 49 to 56. This is when idle!
>
>Thomas