My dad's Compaq Presario of 2001 still hates the summer, nearly as much as it did from the beginning until today. Replacing the old thermal grease for the first time in 8 years made the temps at idle and low load drop from about 40-45C to 36-40 degrees, but the load temps are not yet fine. At a certain moment during a virusscan I did for testing purposes, the temps went to 60 for a second or two and the cpu fan "decided" to go full throttle. This made the cpu temps go down to 50-55C (fortunately), but of course the noise was awful. The environmental temperature is roughly 25-30C at my parents' this weekend, and my dad's pc stands in a computer cabinet. Not quite ideal off course, and what is making it worse is that there is
no case fan inside the system.
These are the specs as far as I know them:
(Brandless?) PSU of 235 Watts
Intel Pentium 4 @ 1.5 GHz, socket 478 (Costa Rica)
2x 512 MB Crucial SDRAM (133 MHz, 3.3 volt)
64 MB GeForce 2 MX-400
1 ATA (thus not SATA) HDD
1 ATA DVD-ROM drive
1 ATA CD-RW drive
Cooling: 1 PSU fan and 1 CPU fan
When applying the thermal grease I followed the instructions OCZ gives for it (
OCZ Freeze Extreme instructions), so that shouldn't be a part of the problem I think (and as said before, the idle temps seem to have dropped).
So I have 3 questions:
- Will a case fan be a sufficient solution for the heat/noise issues that pc is having during summers?
- Is that PSU able to handle that additional fan in case of a pc with that hardware? I think it is but I'm not completely sure.
- May OCZ be not right about the application and should I have used their instructions for "legacy" (i.e. P3 and earlier) cpus? That does not seem likely to me, but still I would like to know your opinion.
Thanks a lot in advance, in behalf of my father.