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AMD Aircooling Round-Up of 2003
JMke writes: "If you want a silent AMD system you almost always have to get yourself a higher-class heatsink. Thermalright and other manufactures have brought out updated products that can keep your CPU cool while keeping the noise down, hardware geek site Madshrimps has published a roundup of the best heatsinks from 2003 that money can buy in 2004, read it here."
So I guess we are testing the heatsinks right now, as we pound the shineola out of their webservers?
Friends don't let friends post.
/tongue-in-cheek
After hearing of many AMD processors popping louder than a lobster in a vat of boiling water, I considered a little liquid cooling to keep my rig from becoming an expensive piece of sand...
Vos teneo officium eram periculosus ut vos recipero is.
This reminds me of the time a couple months ago that I upgraded my heatsink, and for whatever reason absentmindedly left my old copper block on my toaster oven. Weeks later I noticed the toaster was not working quite as well as it used to, and I realized the heatsink was to blame!
Then I realized that the toaster was just fucked up and that I was just an idiot.
If I could make this sig kill you, I would.
You know that forest people keep talking about where there's nobody around to hear things? I put my computer cases there, and now they don't make any sound at all.
(Unfortunately, one my systems did get destroyed when a tree fell on it.)
Usually something as simple as moving the case can make a significant difference.
It can make a difference in cooling as well.
Last month, while I was visiting a cousin upstate for the holidays, I asked if I could use his computer to check work email. While I was using it, he told me that he had to send it back to Dell twice in 3 months (he had only had it since July) due to a total failure to do anything upon powerup. He then started to go into a rant about how Dell sucks (he does that about every company that fails to meet his ridiculous level of expectations - while I was there, he refused the five large pizzas we ordered one night because the driver forgot the pizza sauce for the breadsticks.)
Anyway, I replied that I had no clue what he was talking about as I had 2 Dells myself and the entire environment at work was Dell and I had never heard of such accusations of bad service and poor quality. He stated that Dell "lied" that the computer was overheating and suggested he may have it in a bad location. I looked at where it was sitting - didn't seem so bad to me, under the desk by a window. Then the furnace kicked on. In between the wall and the computer was a vent for the furnace. He had it there to keep his feet toasty while he was using the computer. I knew my cousin was dumb, but I didn't know he was that stupid.
I felt like taking the computer into protective custody. I don't care if it's an emachines, at least give it a chance to work right before you abuse it.
I also remove the sheetmetal plates that block off unused slots..
While removing the expansion plates may allow more airflow, it can also (potentially) let vermin into your computer case. A former coworker's home computer stopped working, when he opened it he found a family of mice had nested in there and chewed the cables. :)
A couple cats solve this potential problem quite nicely, and are fairly quiet.
You must have got lucky...my two cats tend to make more noise than our server room.
Still...I like the idea...might have to give it a try, seeing how I can never find extra slot-covers anyway!
When I was doing research for building my new Athlon XP based computer, the first I had built myself, I saw warnings that pressing the heatsink too hard could crush the processor. I made a mental note to myself to beware of that. Later, after an hour of trying to get the wicked, tricksy heatsink attached I called the computer shop help line and was told to push the heatsink in harder. I pressed with all my might, and hallelujah, the stiff latch got latched! The computer runs now Linux without problems.
Moral: If you're a geek girl, replace "press lightly" globally with "press with everything your nerdy sport-deprived muscles can supply".
Static shouldn't be an issue unless you start combing your cat inside the case.