New prommy...comp feels a bit hot.

[Naughtyboy]

Lo fellas.

I just finished my new prommy rigg....everythig went like a charm.
Got god fit on the hose/cpu first run and everything.

I have a couple of questions thou to you L337 prommy users.

1. My compressor feels a bit warm..in fact I cant hold my hand on it for more than a minute or so...how about yours??.. This makes me infact a bit worried.

2. The fans that comes with prommy..in my case the fron fan is set suck air through the evap. and the back fan is blowing out through the case. Shouldn´t the front fan blow air on the evap. or am I getting it wrong...???


Atm my temps are as follow..except for the fact that I´m at 1.68vcore not like in the pic.

http://hem.thalamus.nu/~hnm009541/Prommy%20screenies/temp.jpg

[TheDude]

It's normal for the compressor to be that warm to the touch.
Your fans are setup correctly...sucking thru is more efficent than blowing in on the front and the back should blow out as it does. I have switched them around and saw no improvement on the prommie, I did however see an improvement when adding another fan blowing in on the VAPOCHILL (not the prommie). I have read that some guys have changed the fans themselves or even added more fans on the side, but don't know what their results were.
Your temps look normal. Is everything performing for you as expected?

[ModKid]

Originally posted by TheDude
It's normal for the compressor to be that warm to the touch.
Your fans are setup correctly...sucking thru is more efficent than blowing in on the front and the back should blow out as it does. I have switched them around and saw no improvement on the prommie, I did however see an improvement when adding another fan blowing in on the VAPOCHILL (not the prommie). I have read that some guys have changed the fans themselves or even added more fans on the side, but don't know what their results were.
Your temps look normal. Is everything performing for you as expected?

Dude ( no offense, it's your name :D ) adding more fans to the vapochill does help, I have a vapochill classic which only did like -9 with these hot days.... add 2 big 120mm fans, one atop of the radiator cooling the inlet for the liquid, and one cooling the radiator, makes a big difference, it went from -9 to -19, sometimes - 20 !

however temps would drop beneath -5 like in seconds when at 3.9ghz making my pc crash again :P:rolleyes:

[TheDude]

however temps would drop beneath -5 like in seconds when at 3.9ghz making my pc crash again :P

I was running an amd rig and never got close to your speed with the pentium, but you have a valid point.....what matters are the temps under load, not at idle. :D

[RaZoR]

Nice OC there [NH]Naughtyboy. My 3.0 will only hit 3.5 stable @ 5:4 and 3.3 at 1:1. That's with the cpu water cooled. I'm saving
up for a Prommie 2, with luck right before or right after Christmas.

[Vatt]

I have a MachII and the compressor got to 63°C ! That is so hot, you can't even hold your hand on it for more than 2 seconds.

I then used the PCC software that comes with the MachII and set the fans to maximum speed, and now the compressor is around 49°C (measured with digital multimeter/thermometer).

But after asking around, I believe these temps are normal operating temps. So nothing to worry....