Running 3 degrees cooler thanks to tighten up cables ;)

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Skybuck Flying

Hello,

A few days ago I decided to finally tight up the cable in my computer.

The motherboard now runs (at least 3) degrees cooler ! =D

Bye,
Skybuck.
 
Skybuck Flying said:
Hello,

A few days ago I decided to finally tight up the cable in my computer.

The motherboard now runs (at least 3) degrees cooler ! =D

Bye,
Skybuck.
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Now what are you wittering about?
 
Now what are you wittering about?
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His cable was loose. Now it's tight and the PC is way cooler. It's like
how people used to say things they liked were "cool" and now they say
"tight". Apparently this is based on an actual physical phenomenon that
causes a temperature drop in things under great tension.
 
Cable=Cables ;)
His cable was loose. Now it's tight and the PC is way cooler. It's like
how people used to say things they liked were "cool" and now they say
"tight". Apparently this is based on an actual physical phenomenon that
causes a temperature drop in things under great tension.
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The airflow is now better.

Bye,
Skybuck.
 
Skybuck Flying said:
Cable=Cables ;)


The airflow is now better.

Bye,
Skybuck.
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So presumably you meant you tidied up the cables and the airflow has
improved, resulting in a slight drop in temperature.

SteveH
 
SteveH said:
So presumably you meant you tidied up the cables and the airflow has
improved, resulting in a slight drop in temperature.
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Yup.

Three degrees could be significant, it might be the difference between Asus'
Q-Fan control deciding to spindle or not spindle up the fan to higher rpm
and thus higher noise.

I am not sure if the end-user is able to changing the variables/parameters
of the Q-Fan control algorithm.

The asus pc probe II software does have some thresholds and such but I think
those are only ment for the warnings/alerts and not so much for the Q-Fan
algorithm/software ?

Bye,
Skybuck.
 
Skybuck Flying said:
Yup.

Three degrees could be significant, it might be the difference between
Asus' Q-Fan control deciding to spindle or not spindle up the fan to
higher rpm and thus higher noise.

I am not sure if the end-user is able to changing the variables/parameters
of the Q-Fan control algorithm.

The asus pc probe II software does have some thresholds and such but I
think those are only ment for the warnings/alerts and not so much for the
Q-Fan algorithm/software ?

Bye,
Skybuck.
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Put the fan on a fan speed controller?

SteveH
 
Skybuck Flying said:
Hello,

A few days ago I decided to finally tight up the cable in my computer.

The motherboard now runs (at least 3) degrees cooler ! =D

Bye,
Skybuck.
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oh FFS...someone tell him............
 
Hello,

I was viewing a replay of my first multiplayer game of Company of Hero's
when I used Asus PC Probe II to turned off Q-Fan control.

I did this because the soundblaster/sound started to crackle... I thought
maybe the computer is getting to hot. As soon as I turned off Q-Fan control
to increase the CPU fan speed the computer shutdown.
I thought no problem... I ll reboot the computer and I ll go eat and later I
ll return etc. Then after I was done eating the computer was not responding.
I pressed reset button, nothing happened. I shutdown the computer, restarted
it and I walked away and then I heard beep beep beep beep. I was like WTF.
I walk back and the monitor is still all black no boot screen. I try reset a
couple of times... I finally decide to hold in the power button 10 seconds
to shut it down.

I tried two reboots or so but nothing. Now the computer start sounding real
weird. I notice the rare case fan is not spinning. The computer is making a
really weird sound.

I am getting really worried... I was thinking "Oh my god, is my motherboard
half dead or something ?", "Was there a voltage peak in the power ?", "Maybe
this is a result of a power surge a month ago ?"

Man I was worried ! I opened up the powered on PC and I noticed the CPU fan
wasn't spinning. I thought: "Oh my god, that can't be good ?!" "Maybe it's
stuck or something."
I tried to get both fans spinning but no luck. I thought: "Maybe there is
something wrong with the power supply." So I turned off and on the power
supply. Still no luck.

I knew I had tightened all the cables recently. So I thought I better check
all cables, maybe some cable is kinda loose.

And yup ! It turned out the power cable was kinda loose ! It probably was
half in, half out. The computer wasn't getting enough power.
How this happened is kinda strange. I didn't notice it when I tightened the
cables.

Anyway I rebooted the computer and now all is working fine. It's kinda
amazing the system was not damaged, ofcourse I can't be sure yet, time will
tell ;)

Anyway... this should ofcourse have never happened in the first place ?!
Normally the power connector "clicks-in"... but maybe the asus a8n32-sli is
missing a little edge on the power socket.
I noticed the little clip on the connector is not "clicked in". Maybe it's
not problem but still.

I am too tired now so I better not mess with my computer. Tomorrow I might
investigate further into this almost-would-be-nightmare.

Bye,
Skybuck =D
 
Skybuck Flying said:
Hello,

I was viewing a replay of my first multiplayer game of Company of Hero's
when I used Asus PC Probe II to turned off Q-Fan control.

I did this because the soundblaster/sound started to crackle... I thought
maybe the computer is getting to hot. As soon as I turned off Q-Fan
control to increase the CPU fan speed the computer shutdown.
I thought no problem... I ll reboot the computer and I ll go eat and later
I ll return etc. Then after I was done eating the computer was not
responding.
I pressed reset button, nothing happened. I shutdown the computer,
restarted it and I walked away and then I heard beep beep beep beep. I was
like WTF.
I walk back and the monitor is still all black no boot screen. I try reset
a couple of times... I finally decide to hold in the power button 10
seconds to shut it down.

I tried two reboots or so but nothing. Now the computer start sounding
real weird. I notice the rare case fan is not spinning. The computer is
making a really weird sound.

I am getting really worried... I was thinking "Oh my god, is my
motherboard half dead or something ?", "Was there a voltage peak in the
power ?", "Maybe this is a result of a power surge a month ago ?"

Man I was worried ! I opened up the powered on PC and I noticed the CPU
fan wasn't spinning. I thought: "Oh my god, that can't be good ?!" "Maybe
it's stuck or something."
I tried to get both fans spinning but no luck. I thought: "Maybe there is
something wrong with the power supply." So I turned off and on the power
supply. Still no luck.

I knew I had tightened all the cables recently. So I thought I better
check all cables, maybe some cable is kinda loose.

And yup ! It turned out the power cable was kinda loose ! It probably was
half in, half out. The computer wasn't getting enough power.
How this happened is kinda strange. I didn't notice it when I tightened
the cables.

Anyway I rebooted the computer and now all is working fine. It's kinda
amazing the system was not damaged, ofcourse I can't be sure yet, time
will tell ;)

Anyway... this should ofcourse have never happened in the first place ?!
Normally the power connector "clicks-in"... but maybe the asus a8n32-sli
is missing a little edge on the power socket.
I noticed the little clip on the connector is not "clicked in". Maybe it's
not problem but still.

I am too tired now so I better not mess with my computer. Tomorrow I might
investigate further into this almost-would-be-nightmare.
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The adults in this group have told you off before for playing with things
that you don't understand. You made a big song and dance in another thread
about saving 3C off your case temps. Along with this full screen posting
about something as dumb as not plugging in the power conector properly. What
trivial ramblings
 
Today as soon as I woke I booted up my computer but then I forgot oh wait a
second I needed to look at the power connector.

So first I took a look at the new pictures I took... but I could not really
tell the power connector was loose.

I could also not tell if their was an edge on the power socket.

So I searched up my design reporting version 7 of 2006 to find the
hyperlinks.

Strangely enough some postings dont have the links in them. It's like a
section is missing.

Fortunately some smart ass like John Doe, cross posted it to free.spam,
ironically enough he said it wasn't necessary.

But what he did was nice... because that posting shows everything.

So I travelled to the website of hothardware.

Unfortunately the link in the posting is not working, but the site still has
the review.

On the picture it can be clearly seen that their is some sort of edge on the
power socket.

So I started wondering maybe my board has a production flaw ?

So I shutdown computer and investigated the power socket.

It does indeed have a edge.

I reconnected the power connector but it was too easy to pull out.

The anchor was also a bit bend so I bend it back.

I started wondering... maybe it's a seasonic s12 power connector problem..

Maybe it's 1 millimeter to short...

So I inserted it back in I tried to put in in place with a screwdriver that
didn't really help.

Finally I dediced to push the power connector a little bit like a
daugther/extension graphics card and that did the trick.

*******
So the whole moral/pointer of the story is:
*******

Power connectors should be plugged in just like a graphics cards... a little
bit diagonal/skewed and finally one has to push it in place until it
"clicks" =D

*******

And now the power connector is rocked solid attached.

Ofcourse now one needs a screw driver or a thin finger to detach it again...
there is probably enough room between the power socket and the memory chips
to insert a finger ;) :P*.

However one must take care not to damage the chips as usual.

There is a another moral to the story. It's good to know I have decent
reliable perfect pc, it's good to know it solid attached so that doesn't
happen again.... AND I wish Windows XP and the hardware drivers in general
were as high quality and rock solid as the hardware ;) :) However the rare
case fan did once not spin up though ;) probably little spider spun a web on
it ;) hehe.

I wanna know every ****ing milimeter, every ****ing 1/27 of an inch, of my
computer ;) =D Yeah baby... and if I don't I am gonna ****ing investigate !
=D I LOVE IT =D

Wieeeeeeeeee

Bye,
Skybuck.

P.S.:

Yeah baby.

Another good ending of a
could-have-been-nightmare/could-have-been-reason-to-nag story ;) =D
Wieeeeeeeeeeee.
 
Mitch Crane said:
All of that air whooshing through the case after you rearranged the
cables was pushing it.
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Nope,

Nice try. What cooling fan are we talking about ?

It's impossible.

Now fan in the system creates that kind of airflow ! ;)

All fans were spinning on their own power.

Bye,
Skybuck.
 
Skybuck Flying said:
Today as soon as I woke I booted up my computer but then I forgot oh wait a
second I needed to look at the power connector.

So first I took a look at the new pictures I took... but I could not really
tell the power connector was loose.
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the only thing thats loose is the nut behind the keyboard.
 
Nope,

Nice try. What cooling fan are we talking about ?

It's impossible.

Now fan in the system creates that kind of airflow ! ;)

All fans were spinning on their own power.
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They have to get their power from somewhere. In this case it was
powered by the whooshing rush of tight cable wind generation.
 
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