Small update on this rig rather then my PII which was intended first, but thought to test my voodoo 1 before anything else rather then potentially overheating my voodoo 2 somehow 😵
Got in my heatsinks this week to improve cooling on my VGA cards which were running kinda hot (barely able to touch them for longer then 10 seconds), ordered in some 28x28 heatsinks and 10x10 heatsinks and a big sheet of thermalpads to stick em together.
after a stress test which I ran overnight I was satsified with the temperatures, I guess the chips get around 40ish degrees now with the heatsinks and some air flow over them opposed to 70-80 degrees before.
Realising how much I changed on this rig lately I also figured to do a full update:
- Replaced my old CPU cooler with a modded 370
- Replaced the old HEC PSU with the Aopen one I removed from my PII
- added a 120mm fan and placed it as a semi intake fan but primarily for air flow in my case (scraped from my athlon after replacing its CPU cooler)
- added a network card
- added a slot cooler some time ago but wont remove it now as it wont hurt cooling
last thing to improve on this rig but also on my PII would be to mod both the PSU with a 120mm fan for air flow.
Currently I setup a network with all my computer through several KVM Switches (monitors take alot of space 😲 ), hope to soon have a real old fashioned lan party with all rigs. This will be planned in winter as I am worried I might get cooling issues, when I was setting up the network enviroment on the computers it nearly hit 45 degrees in my room while the outside temperature was in the low 20's 😲 🤣