Quote:The temps on your drives are not that high. The one I use for PVR recording fetus into the 40s when I'm recording a few shows
That may work for you, but for me, those are undesirable temps. Running with hot mechanical drives is a perfect way to lead them to failure, especially since I'm using non-WD Green drives (I'm using normal desktop drives that I ripped out of Seagate 3TB external enclosure).
In any case, by the time I saw your post I had already took both 3.5" drives out of the HTPC and put them back into my desktop where they're now sitting snugly at 29C. That\s what I like to see. The free space I gained in the HTPC allowed me to manage my cables very nicely (especially since I'm not using an optical drive). These are the resulting temperatures on the HTPC:
I'm going to try another HW monitoring software to make sure Speccy is giving accurate readings because earlier when I said it read 82C, I went into the BIOS and it showed the CPU at 32C.
To answer your questions:
- I have no way to measure the ambient temperature in my room but the thermostat is set to 23C, so that should be the room temperature.
- I have never had an issue with the electric baseboard heater behind my TV stand, even when I used to play Xbox 360. The reason for this is because heat rises, so it does not affect my home theatre very much. If my TV would be wall-mounted, I would think twice about having a basebaord heater.
- I'm using 2 x 80 mm fans that were suggested to me. They are on the extremeties of the case. I kept one in the front since it blows air towards the SSD which is mounted in the optical drive tray. And I put the second fan at the fan end because had I put it in the middle, blowing onto the CPU and it's HSF, contrary to what most people would think, it would interupt the air flow of the HSF.
Everything seems to be fine now that the mechanical drives are out of that small case and the snake pit of wires has been dealt with. However, there is still a problem with this CPU. I will try putting my own thermal paste tomorrow, when I resume working on this, but for now, I have one thing to add.
Not to be blunt but I noticed your post on
this thread which read:
Quote:I might also suggest a non K version of the AMD A6 to save on the heat and energy. The K's are 100W processors and the non K are 65W. I made that mistake and had to do a little more work to keep it cool and quiet (although I'm using an A10 and the stock heatsink couldn't keep up.)
But then, in
this post, you say:
Quote:The stock cooler should be fine. Its only a 65W processor.
Both my build and the other one on that user's thread include the same exact processor. In one post you say it's a 65W processor, and in another, you say because it's a K processor, it's a 100W processor. Again, not to be blunt, but I think that you either made a mistake in your posts or you misguided me into buying this CPU without the necessary aftermarket HSF. Now I'm stuck with a stock HSF that can't handle this "100W" processor.
