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Tag Archives: cooling
Water cooling
A mere 12 months after beginning to gripe about my machine’s loudness, I’ve done something about it. I’ve installed water cooling. And the machine actually still boots and runs. :O
Minor hardware improvements and plans
Pretty minor indeed: some obscure hardware parameters are now more impressive, but no noticeable changes to performance. Well, you can’t put a price on bragging rights…
Time for a vacuum?
A graph of CPU, Motherboard and Graphics card temperatures so far this year. Since getting this machine I’ve been collecting hardware measurements from it. I thought I should try to see if there are any trends developing.
Open Hardware Monitor logging and fan control
I’ve updated my OHM working copy to r314, and generated a patch that adds the two features mentioned previously: Periodic logging of all sensor data to CSV. Control of GPU fan using a reference temperature.
GPU temperature control
Open Hardware Monitor has been running (via a scheduled task) on my machine, since I discovered it in February. It collects data on the 36 sensors in my system, and logs it every 5 seconds. I’m generally pretty happy with … Continue reading
Monitoring hardware
I’ve been using PC Wizard and SpeedFan to check my machine’s temperature and fans.