Heating Probs

**andy_cyp** · 5th September 2004

any one have a good suggestion on how to keep a system running well without over heating ????, are there any additional cooling devices out there cause mine seems to heat quite a lot and crashes when i play games, but if i open the side case its fine ???, ideas anyone plz ?

**johnenty** · 5th September 2004

There are loads of options you can choose, some cost a fortune some dont.

Commponents that generate heat
CPU, memory, graphics card, power supply, optical drives and hard drives. Cooling devices are available for most of these devices so you can go and buy them. installing a better cooler on your CPU and a higher rated power supply will also help an under powered PSU will generate alot of heat when requested to do extra work needed to produce high quality graphics and extra demamnd placed on the CPU when playing games..

Most importantly you need good airflow in the case, do this by installing case fans as a pair, 1 bringing cool air in normally at the front and another at the back blowing the warm air out. you can also add aditional fans if you make holes in your case i.e. a blow hole at the top of the case can make a huge difference as you will find that the warm air will sit at the top of the case and your cd drives now generate quite alot of heat. Also replace flat cables with round ones and keep them tied up out of the way so the air can move in the case easily

**The Chav** · 5th September 2004

I tend to do de gas machine, a big magnet or reverse the mech, but b carefull az u could blow urself up, the leccy machines are easier to do but wont save money on the heating.

Worst case, gets some phat quilts, are leccy n gas got cut off one summer at the same ****ing time, had to hide under dems quilts everynight, **** it though, init.