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magnethead · 01-04-2008, 08:15 PM

Dell is whack in the heatsink department- even a 15 dollar cheapo thermaltake will do better than stockers. When i got my antec 900, i got the dell mobo to last 2 weeks on passive cooling before i got an active heatsink. 2 weeks with no direct cooling to the processor is a long time. If you can flip the shroud up with ti running and the heatsink doesnt have too mnuch temperature to the hand, you're in good shape.mine was steaming hot to the touch while passive and still ran fine. (not advised to do that though- talk about dangerous, BIOS shoulda shut it off).

01-04-2008, 08:15 PM	#5 (permalink)
magnethead Tech Hardware Team Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: TX Posts: 1,074 OS: XPH, 2K My System Blog Entries: 2	Re: Dell cooling problems... Dell is whack in the heatsink department- even a 15 dollar cheapo thermaltake will do better than stockers. When i got my antec 900, i got the dell mobo to last 2 weeks on passive cooling before i got an active heatsink. 2 weeks with no direct cooling to the processor is a long time. If you can flip the shroud up with ti running and the heatsink doesnt have too mnuch temperature to the hand, you're in good shape.mine was steaming hot to the touch while passive and still ran fine. (not advised to do that though- talk about dangerous, BIOS shoulda shut it off). __________________ I'm not the world's greatest speller. Deal with it.