Overheat questions....

Deathlike2 · Post by **Deathlike2** » Fri Oct 02, 2009 1:09 am

grinvader wrote:
odditude wrote:you frenchmen and your damn logic
Nah, the fun part is enlarging the system so that in includes the plant powering the cooling system - a non-negligeable part of the entropy goes there, leaving your local room not-so-much-warmer and the computer itself cooler.

*insert "The More You Know" pic here*

Que · Post by **Que** » Sun Oct 04, 2009 7:17 pm

Gil_Hamilton wrote:If this was not happening before, your system had utterly abysmal cooling and I'm quite surprised nothing melted down.

XD Me too, the motherboard used to idle around 37-40C and under load would reach close to 50C. I've always had the scythe so the CPU wasn't overheated. I'll never again stuff a full size ATX motherboard into a pint sized asus value case, I almost blew this baby up.

Gil_Hamilton · Post by **Gil_Hamilton** » Wed Oct 07, 2009 3:59 am

Que wrote:
Gil_Hamilton wrote:If this was not happening before, your system had utterly abysmal cooling and I'm quite surprised nothing melted down.
XD Me too, the motherboard used to idle around 37-40C and under load would reach close to 50C. I've always had the scythe so the CPU wasn't overheated.

Like hell it wasn't.

A heatsink doesn't magically make things cooler. It makes it easier to transfer heat to the surrounding air. If that air is ALREADY as hot as you claim... well, you won't be dumping any heat into it.

There is a small "reservoir" effect, but it is not a primary function, except in heatsinks with very large metal content. These high-metal sinks are not popular, because they also suck at getting heat back OUT.

The reservoir effect is minimal by design, because if you're actually filling that reservoir then something's gone terribly wrong.

The Ninja, like most heat sinks, is designed to MOVE heat, not STORE heat.