JB Rekit
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The front fan on my XCLIO A380BK has been out for about a month and I have had a shop blower blowing air through that opening, and then the cheap little puller fan on the back of the case just went out. This is my second complete build and is a little over 2 yrs old.
I was planning to go with the Rexflo250mm (front replacement-I think) and put the Delta AFB1212GHE-CF00 for a huge upgrade on the back of the case.
Looking through a lot of the cooling threads, I was wondering if it would be strongly recommended to upgrade the stock cooling on any of my other hardware? From my searches, it also looks like I should put a new application of thermal compound on as well. Here is a list of my components:
Processor: i7-860 Lynnfield 2.8GHz (stock heat sink and fan)
Motherboard: ASUS P7P55 WS SuperComputer (250mm fan on the side of the case blows on it)
Video Card: HIS H485FM512H Radeon HD 4850 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 (stock single fan)
Memory: ADATA XPG Gaming Series 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (250mm fan on side of case)
I plan to upgrade to a SSD since I did that to my work computer and really like it as well as upgrade to 16g of memory. I can wait to do that until I get my fans/coolers set up properly though. I'll still order it all at the same time.
As far as use is concerned, it is for all intents and purposes a work computer, plus the media center for the entire house using sageTV. (I have it is set up with dropbox and logmein and can do everything my computer at the office can do.)
I don't play games, but do run several high resource programs at once, most significant being the AutoCAD-Autodesk design suite and the adobe CS5 suite. I will usually have firefox open as well as several MS office 2010 programs at the same time as well as SageTV running in the background.
I've also been reading more about overclocking and would like to experiment a little with that. I am not as worried about parts wearing out prematurely, but do need to maintain an extremely stable system, so I doubt I'll ever get too extreme with it.
This computer is kept in a closet (with air conditioning vent) next to the study so fan noise won't be an issue.
Thanks for the suggestions!
John
I was planning to go with the Rexflo250mm (front replacement-I think) and put the Delta AFB1212GHE-CF00 for a huge upgrade on the back of the case.
Looking through a lot of the cooling threads, I was wondering if it would be strongly recommended to upgrade the stock cooling on any of my other hardware? From my searches, it also looks like I should put a new application of thermal compound on as well. Here is a list of my components:
Processor: i7-860 Lynnfield 2.8GHz (stock heat sink and fan)
Motherboard: ASUS P7P55 WS SuperComputer (250mm fan on the side of the case blows on it)
Video Card: HIS H485FM512H Radeon HD 4850 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 (stock single fan)
Memory: ADATA XPG Gaming Series 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (250mm fan on side of case)
I plan to upgrade to a SSD since I did that to my work computer and really like it as well as upgrade to 16g of memory. I can wait to do that until I get my fans/coolers set up properly though. I'll still order it all at the same time.
As far as use is concerned, it is for all intents and purposes a work computer, plus the media center for the entire house using sageTV. (I have it is set up with dropbox and logmein and can do everything my computer at the office can do.)
I don't play games, but do run several high resource programs at once, most significant being the AutoCAD-Autodesk design suite and the adobe CS5 suite. I will usually have firefox open as well as several MS office 2010 programs at the same time as well as SageTV running in the background.
I've also been reading more about overclocking and would like to experiment a little with that. I am not as worried about parts wearing out prematurely, but do need to maintain an extremely stable system, so I doubt I'll ever get too extreme with it.
This computer is kept in a closet (with air conditioning vent) next to the study so fan noise won't be an issue.
Thanks for the suggestions!
John