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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I know two master techs who have specialized in
cooled heatsinks and thermal coolers for AMD cpus. I can tell you that cross
cooling fans arent the answer. There is a special gel that sits between the heat
sink and cpu that repells heat from the sides of the gel. The gap created by the
gel between the heatsink and cpu showed in test that heat was significantly
repelled away from the processor and reduced temperature on the CPU by as much
as 28 degrees on an overclocked processor. On the case door opposite of
the motherboard he placed a 4 inch thermal fan. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> Also, Ive seen where people have actually put
fans in the wrong places. Once where the suction of one case fan caused
the CPU fan to reverse and drew heat into the processor rather than pull it
away. One guy had a SCSI chain inside his tower and I could have fried an egg on
top of his case. He couldnt figure out why his MLB was warped or CPU froze up
all the time. He went through 4 processors before he brought it in to us.
Weve built hundreds of Linux Boxs (AMD Athlon) and all maintained 74
degrees or less inside temp.</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>