Re: Power supply hot to touch - Page 2

 
Let me guess, by your same logic the ideal speed for your car is 200MPH ?
What next ? You going to tell me the earth is flat ?

Not only is that the single most stupid thing I have heard out of anybody in
a long time, you also wouldn't know useful if it jumped up and bit you on
the ass. A quick read of your responses in other threads sinches that.

Chris

 On Tue, 4 Mar 2008 23:34:44 -0500, "Skeleton Man"


It's often necessary to recognize that w_tom has a unique
posting style.

Remember, we're all just contributing alternate ideas, it's
still up to you to find the fault.

 
I noticed..


Yes, and I appreciate all the suggestions - I'll try cutting out the fan
vents because if I remove the fan I can feel it moving plenty of air, but
while it's attached I don't feel much air move at all.  The front fan has
the same vent so I'll do both at once.

Chris

 
  Why are you upset about temperatures defined as normal even on
manufacturer datasheets?  Nobidy is running a car at 200 MPH.  Defined
was running a car at 50 MPH.  I also noted previously that the same
car could easily run at 25 MPH.  What you have described as hot (200
MPH) is really only warm (running at 50 MPH).  What is painfully hot
to humans is quite normal for semicondctors. To be too hot,
semiconductors must burn skin. Many mistake 130 degree F as hot when
it is a perfectly normal temperature for ICs.  Also a normal mistake
is to know what is how without first learning manufacturer spec
numbers.  130 degrees is ideal semiconductor temperature.

  I do write blunt with no regard for those who need things phrased
'politically correct'.  I am blunt techical and made no apologies when
someone mistakenly assumes a 'tone'.  Everything I have posted is
technically correct AND sometimes will contradict popular myths.  130
degrees F is a perfectly ideal temperature for semiconductors -
equivalent to running a car at 50 MPH.  Myth purveryors confuse what
is too hot for a human with what is perfectly normal for a
semiconductor.

  You have confused the perfectly normal 50 MPH with 200 MPH.  It is a
common mistake by those who did not first learn the numbers.

 

  Are you trying to be funny?  Your advice is about as far
off as you can get.   The PSU should not be exhausting its
hot air into the computer case.   A fan pulls air through
intake "vents", they are not used to push air through
anything that is not directly in front of the fan shroud and
basically coupled to it.

Ken