cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/46256923
why don’t they just do this? are they stupid?
I had to do this with a PC once. I upgraded the GPU in an old HP, and then it would overheat playing Modern Warfare 2. Finally just took off the side of the case and pointed a box fan at it. Never overheated again.
Damn, came to comment the same thing, and it also was an HP.
But people actually do do this, if for some reason a PC is overheating or the built-in fans are making too much noise. A big fan running slowly moves more air more quietly than a bunch of little fans. I even wired an external DC fan into the PC’s power supply once so that I wouldn’t have to plug them in separately.
My experience is that this also builds up a pretty spectacular amount of dust inside the case, so regular vacuum cleaning is called for.
that’s why you use a custom water cooling loop connected to a car radiator outside.
Or better, connected straight into your pool!
Wait.
Whole home hepa hvac filter on the intake side?
Yes, something like that!
Point the fan outwards and pull heat out instead of pushing cool air in. Problem solved.
Problem not solved. You’ll still collect dust wherever there’s intake.
The filter is probably the best solution IME.
It can and has been done, but this doesn’t work as well as people think in most cases. You need high static pressure fans for some of the good, dense fin heat sinks. There used to be some decent large, more open heat sinks that this worked well with.
I did that once in one build.
It was a shitty PC that I kept upgrading, but for some reason kept the case. so when it kept overheating,I just put a box fan just like that
How well did it work?
100%
of course it did.
it looked like shit, but it worked.
Did you put an air filter or did you clean all the dust every month or two like I did?
lol, were do you live? it got a wee dusty after a year but not even close to that,
Lol, I just found the pic online. I basically just used canned air every 2 months and gave it a quick pass on the heat sinks and any possible dust bunnies. Nothing near as bad as the pic.
I did this before discovering one could change the CPU’s thermal paste.
Hook an industrial chiller to that mf
For $700, that little fan better be able to blow, if you know what I mean…
I’ll stick with my $700 pc fan, thanks.
Sure its a joke, but have you not seen the lengths people have gone to cool machines?
Submerged in mineral oil baths, liquid cooling from diy to expensitivo pro systems, fanless 100lbs copper heatsinks.
Stupid? Almost certainly, but not because of our innability to use big fans.
And then there’s me with a 9800x3d with a low profile cooler in a fractal ridge. It only throttles under synthetic tests so I just say fuck it and let it run at whatever temp it wants to run at.
I have done this. Heat in Australian summer and high end games requires more cooling then the stock Intel fan.
Yeah I did this in university.
I can’t say I haven’t ever used a desk fan blowing into an open case, but it was during a heatwave and I was being overly cautious with the internal temperatures. It would probably have been fine without it. Probably.
As a bonus I was able to get some of the blowback from the case, which wasn’t too warm and meant that I didn’t completely sacrifice my own cooling.
Laughs in Mac Studio
Apples cooling solution has always been to let the device overheat and avoid trying to cool it. All their laptops before the arm series had major thermal issues.
I ran hackintosh builds for 15 years and finally took the plunge to Apple hardware with an M1 Studio. It’s an incredible daily driver.
