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:	post by DeRtOxIa at 2007-05-18 00:36:16

somewhere out there are videos of people pulling the heatsinks after disabling thermal shutdown and their processors literally exploding.

I live right next to a cement plant so the insides of my computers are fucking filthy. I just blow em out once or twice a year. I have had problems a few times where dust completely clogged the cpu heatsink and all the vents. But i always have my computers set to shut down at the lowest temperature just in case.

Also...last week or so, when we first had that humid heat wave, i was doing some divx encoding and my comp kept shutting down. The processor would spike and it would go from 40 degress up to 60 in not even a few minutes. I just opened up the case and pointed a boxfan right in. I should probably mention that i run a fanless system. My cpu cooler is pure copper heatpipes with a couple hundred aluminum fins and my power supply is all heatpipes too. I just have one 120mm exhaust fan.

My computer is completely silent but it's more annoying actually. Fans really do drown out a ton of noises that you dont want to hear. CPU's make a rather annoying audible high pitch whinning sound that is usually completely drowned out by a fan. At night with eveyrthing off in my room i can hear every little click of my hard drive and i can hear when the processor ramps up to run a virus scan or something.

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