ONly an Athlon would need a Delta fan.
 
 
No thanks,I hear enough helicopters in the morning, here.

The only reason I have one is because that's what came with my HS.
I've been looking at quiter ones, that produce the same amount of air flow. Any suggestions?

I had the swiftech heatsink with a delts fan, and I changed to a CAK 38 with a smaller fan, tho it was 5k rpm, was a bit quieter thok, and used a lot less room.

Well, it's time to repost one of my systems.
 
Scorpio
-Abit NV7-133R
-Athlon T-Bird 1.4GHz @ stock
-512MB PC2100 DDR
-Gainward GeForce 3 @ 250/571
-Maxtor 20GB ATA100 7200RPM
-Maxtor 40GB ATA100 5400RPM
-Toshiba 12x DVD
-Samsung 48x CD
-Mitsumi floppy drive
-2 port Lucent IEEE1394 PCI card
-Sparkle 350 W PSU
-Vantec CCK-6027D HSF
-Super Case full tower
 
I cannot believe how many PCI slots I'm not using. Currently, I only have a firewire card for this thing. I'm probably not going to do much, if any, overclocking, especially since the options on this board are quite anemic at best. I'm not going very far with a max Vcore of 1.8 volts--and yes, this is an Abit board. On the upside, the integrated stuff rocks! USB 2.0, HighPoint ATA133 RAID, 5.1 ch sound, integrated LAN. I'm liking the NForce, which IMO, is possibly the best integrated chipset yet.

Quote:
At idle - 28C
Full Hard @ss Load - 40C
I maxed the cpu out at 100% for 5 hours, and the temp
never went over 40C.....

Of course that depends on if my AC is running or not.
I've seen it idle at 26C
and be at full load running at 35C
Just depends on ambient room temp for me.
Mine is not overclocked. Standard CPU 's alright for some - mine's currently @ 48&degC, but varies from 46&degC upto about 54&degC depending on room temperature. I haven't really stress-tested it yet, so I don't know how hot it will go under load.

Friday night I decided to try & improve the temperature situation a bit [as it was staying around 52&degC even when my room was fairly cool], so opened up my case & found that the wires had come loose on my front intake fan. I was gonna re-wire it, but I realised I could fit a 92mm fan I had just lying around in the same place as I currently had an 80mm [below the PSU, behind the CPU], with a bit of modification of course [so the 80mm that I moved replaced the front intake 1, to save me having to fix the wiring] - namely new screw holes & enlarging the existing holes. I was gonna dremel out 1 big hole, but by the time I got round to getting everything out of my case it was too late to make that much noise so ended up just enlarging most of the holes with a hand drill [yes, my hands do still ache!].

I'll probably get round to dremmeling it out eventually, I've also been thinking about turning the HSF fan the other way up & making a little "hood" or duct that will change/redirect the airflow from the fan @ 90&deg to the original direction of flow, so that it would be aimed straight @ the exhaust fan. What do you guys think? If it makes any difference the HSF is the 1 that came with my Athlon & has a 60x60x10mm Dynaeon fan.

I might also fix the wiring on that other fan & add it to the other in the front, so that I'd have 2.

Abit VT6X4
Pentium III 600E @ 800 MHz
Matrox G400 32MB Singlehead
(2)Maxtor 7200 RPM drives
a) 30GB ATA 66
40GB ATA133
SB Live! Value
Pioneer 106-S DVD
Lite-On 24/10/40 CDRW
 
that's about it I think... this is the first time I've ever posted my specs.
 
I might get a new computer soon... but I'm pretty happy with the performance of this one. Don't really see a need for a new computer now though... we'll see.

No need for a new computer?! Bah! I will 0wn3rz j00!
 
On the side note, at least one of my reliable ;( 60GXP's is going to PC hell. At least I had another drive to plug in (yay).

Wish i had a really really bad computer that i could upgrade and actually see a performance difference.

I cycle in new parts about once a year in the mobo/CPU department--tho I have had a lot more motherboard's come through here recently.

My new lan box
 
duron 800@1000
dfi ak75 ec
256 megs of pc133 ram
10 gig maxtor
cheap tnt 2 32 meg
c net nic

Bump? or close the topic?

Nah, leave this thing open.
 
I tried overclocking on the NV7-133R. It's definitely not much of an overclocker, and the little I could OC just wasn't worth it to do so.

I did a little bit of a ghetto case "mod". I picked up a sheet of acrylic at a local Lowes store, had it cut to size there. As it is, I have a clear side panel displaying the guts of my rig. I've slapped some velcro strips at the top and bottom runs of the case where the side panel used to be. Total cost: $10.71 for the acrylic and 2 packs of velcro (ended up using only one).

I've just completed my 1st proper mod on my system - put a 92mm fan where the manufacturer had only made holes for an 80mm, just behind the CPU, & cut out a nice big hole instead of the piddly little original ones. @ 1st I only drilled new mounting holes enlarged the existing blow holes a bit, but I decided to go the whole hog & make a nice big hole & since doing that my CPU & system temps have dropped by a few degrees. I also covered up any holes not directly in use with fans, so as to try & keep the airflow going through the case better in the way it's supposed to. Still gotta do some front fan holes & ducts.

http://pcdb.overclockers.com.au/view.php?page=pics&name=bjgrifter1
 
Not the greatest of pix, but it does the job pretty well.

That yours? Cool.

Yeah, it's mine. Thanks! I just got a sheet of acrylic at a local Lowes hardware store and had it cut to the dimensions there. I bought some velcro to go with it, and the total cost for both was $10.71. I picked up a cold cathode at one of the shops yesterday. I can see very well in my room (has that PC in there) with the cathode on.

i'm not upgrading again until next summer, i can't see the need amymore to upgrade every few months.

I'm just gonna do a little more case modding here and probably buy a new power supply for my duallie...looks like a little brown out got to the bugger and gave it fits.

Time for another bumpity-bump.
 
I plan on getting a Tekram DC-390U3W U160 SCSI card and a Fujitsu 18GB 10k RPM 68-pin drive (with 8MB cache--yum!) to go with it. That and the power supply...