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To: Dirk Hente who wrote (3324)	10/31/1998 9:55:00 PM
From: pae	Read Replies (1) of 14778

Dirk, I hear you on no favorite. Sounds like you are going for whatever works. My concern at the moment is my Gateway ATX Tower P5-166. This morning it had just one fan blowing out of the power supply into the case - but very close to the P5 which has a huge heatsink but no fan. I flipped the PS fan to blow out (what a pain in the butt!) and added a low front fan to suck in, but with the case open that P5 is uncomfortable to touch. As in quite warm. I begin to understand that due to the PS fans proximity to the P5, it could give more benefit to blowing in: more volume, higher velocity right at the P5; versus the likely OVERALL more efficient "cool-in-the-bottom-hot-out-the-top" "assisted convection" approach that I have switched to. I slid the cover back on to focus the flow past the pentium - but I've got no means to monitor other than malfunction itself. (I'm on that machine right now.) And frankly the flow from those two fans FEELS pathetic. I may spring for that drive bay front temp monitor/alarm/probe/fan thing that was in one of JW's links. While I would prefer not to sink any more dollars in the P5-166 MB/CPU/memory in anticipation of coming upgrade - I would like it to NOT catch fire in the meantime. <g> Perhaps I'll put one of those Radio Shack squirrel cage fans on the back wall with superlock fasteners and point it right at the P5 heatsink. Just wish I had a way to measure other than taking the cover off and touching it. Well, the thing hasn't caught fire in 2 years - it'll probably last another couple of months. <g> Paul

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