Oh wow, I'm surprised it didn't get hotter.
How's the rest of your cooling? Do you have a lot of case fans?
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2 120mm intake on front, 1 120mm rear exhaust, and a reference blower GTX 580.
Edit: All the fans are Cooler Master Sickleflow at full speed.
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Not sure if it is positive, I meant to test it, but always forget. The 2 intakes have to pull through a filter meant for a window air conditioner, so it has a bit of restriction. Unfortunately it may be a bit negative.
Edit: This (3/16"/ 4.76mm thick polyurethane) is the one I use. I cut it to the exact shape I needed to fit in the front of my case which is the NZXT Source 210.
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Ah in that case you're right, perhaps it's a bit negative. You can usually tell from how much dust accumulates over time but getting hard numbers is always a lot quicker and more satisfying
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Zalman?
That's a name I haven't heard in ages. They kind of stopped improving their products much after the single core era.
Had one on my AMD Athlon 1700+.
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I bought it because it was cheap and is rated better than the standard Hyper 212, the same as the Hyper 212 plus, and 1 degree behind the 212 Evo. After rebate it was only $10 shipped and I had $10 store credit with Newegg :)
This is the chart I referenced when I bought it. Number are degrees over ambient. You can see it is about 1 degree behind the 212 Evo and about the same as the 212 plus in the 150w test. It beats the 212 plus in the 85w test which is more realistic for what I am running.
Edit: That review is not for the cooler I use, I just grabbed it because it was updated at the time with more coolers to compare to. I have the CNPS10X Optima.
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Oh wow, flashback. Those weird looking round copper heatsinks. Such a unique design even though in the long run the basic fintower design and large fan ended up being better.
I bought the watercooling Reserator used once but never got around to actually building a sys with it ...
Edit: Just found my old model, Zalman CNPS5000. 15 years gone by already oO
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I am not using the round one, I have the CNPS10X Optima. I just used that page of that review because it was newer and had more coolers to compare on it.
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Wait, you drilled a few of small holes and the structure is still solid?
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On the back of the fans. I pulled the sticker off and normally there is a plug that you can remove to grease or oil them, but my fans are solid, hard plastic all the way across the back. I just made the holes big enough to get the tube in to spray the grease. This picture has a removable plug, I put the dots where I drilled holes.
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I also cut holes in the case. I didn't like the honeycomb style of holes where the fans mount in my case because they are a bit more restrictive and noisy, so I removed them.
My case is all black, but this pic will work for reference. I cut the 2 intake and the 1 exhaust completely out and put these round ones over the fans. I didn't even make it look nice, I just used sheet metal snips and filed down some of the sharp points :)
Edit: Added a pic of my beautiful computer. Watch your fingers :)
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TL:DR - I accidentally left my CPU fan unplugged for 3 months without knowing. I just ran a stress test and only got a max of 85c on my overclocked 3570K with no fan. Everything is good :)
I just opened my computer to clean it and I saw that my CPU fan was unplugged, which means it has been unplugged since the last time i cleaned it :(
I while ago, I had a fan that was starting to make noise like it was drying out so I decided to grease it. My fans are sealed (they don't have the removable plug on the back to grease/oil them), so I drilled a couple small holes where the plug would be until I got through to the shaft, greased them with white lithium grease, and then put some hot glue over the holes.
I wanted to test greasing one fan first to make sure it worked before I did it to the others that were still working fine. After putting everything back together, I booted up the computer and it was much quieter. I left myself a note on the desktop saying to grease the rest of the fans.
I just decided to do the rest of the fans today and when I opened the computer I saw that the CPU fan was unplugged. Knowing that I have been running the computer without it plugged in, I was curious and wanted to see what temps it ran at, so I cleaned everything and greased all the fans. When I put it back together I checked the file on my desktop to see when I created it and it was created Sept 30th. That means I have been running with no CPU fan for just over 3 months.
I am running an I5 3570K overclocked to 4.2 Ghz with a Zalman CNPS10X Optima cooler. With the CPU fan unplugged, I ran Prime 95 for 15 minutes and my max temps for each core was 80/85/85/82. Plugged the fan back in and ran the same test for another 15 minutes and got 57/64/63/60.
I know current CPU's protect themselves and will throttle down if they get too hot, but I don't like to let them run that hot. I have to say, I am quite happy with seeing a max temp of 85 while running a stress test with no fan. If I ran it for a couple hours, it would probably get a couple degrees hotter, but it should not get that hot during any kind of real use anyway.
I usually clean my computer more often than 3 months, but even after 3 months it did pretty good. I have every hole in the case taped off so it can't pull any dust in and the intake on the front has a window air conditioner filter.
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