ShadowPaktu Posted June 3, 2004 Posted June 3, 2004 (edited) Soz, i deleted this cos this was kind of a rant, it's something daft about why couldnt the components on the graphics card be placed on the reverse side of the pcb? that way, heat would rise more easily and could be extracted a bit easier too. Edited June 3, 2004 by ShadowPaktu Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Newport Posted June 3, 2004 Posted June 3, 2004 Well that is a very lame idea of why they moved the mobo around..... That was not the idea at all. The idea (please correct me if i am wrong) of BTX was so that the different parts of the computer would be out of the way of hot air circulating from the parts; thus making heat easier to remove from the case. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShadowPaktu Posted June 3, 2004 Posted June 3, 2004 if yer wondering what hes on about, he must have seen my post before i deleted it lol. Yeah, your pretty much right m8. Intel have the idea that you have the main intake fan at the front, which passes over voltage regulatores etc, then the proc directly behind it, with the N/B and graphics on one side of it, and the memory on the other, then the air is sucked out the back throught an outtake fan. My initial niggle about this is it MIGHT make things worse in the long run. You see, with ATX, your case gets hot, you add another fan and assuming you have an outake somewhere, it ususall lowers the temps because the heat is being extracted. Now with ATX, to get the full advantage and thermal cooling this design offers, you MUST ONLY have a single lane of air flow, i.e., one channel that passes through over the center of the board. If you divert this air flow, or cross it with another air channel, (top-down or similar by adding more fans in different directions), then it will eliminate the actually principle of BTX in the first place, because the main air column isn't maintained. Again, this may be another piece of crpa writting to some or all off you from myself, but this is how i see BTX to be. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
r_target Posted June 3, 2004 Posted June 3, 2004 I'm wondering how it's going to play out myself. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
HomerJaySimpson Posted June 3, 2004 Posted June 3, 2004 Im hoping BTX will be an improvement, if it aint, were doomed We'll just have keep buying the craziest hsf's available Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
r_target Posted June 3, 2004 Posted June 3, 2004 What I'm worried about is that it might not be an improvement so much as a way of coping with ever hotter cpu's. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xtreme21 Posted June 3, 2004 Posted June 3, 2004 Im hoping BTX will be an improvement, if it aint, were doomed We'll just have keep buying the craziest hsf's available But thats the fun of ATX.. lol Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
p8baller07 Posted June 3, 2004 Posted June 3, 2004 if yer wondering what hes on about, he must have seen my post before i deleted it lol. Yeah, your pretty much right m8. Intel have the idea that you have the main intake fan at the front, which passes over voltage regulatores etc, then the proc directly behind it, with the N/B and graphics on one side of it, and the memory on the other, then the air is sucked out the back throught an outtake fan. My initial niggle about this is it MIGHT make things worse in the long run. You see, with ATX, your case gets hot, you add another fan and assuming you have an outake somewhere, it ususall lowers the temps because the heat is being extracted. Now with ATX, to get the full advantage and thermal cooling this design offers, you MUST ONLY have a single lane of air flow, i.e., one channel that passes through over the center of the board. If you divert this air flow, or cross it with another air channel, (top-down or similar by adding more fans in different directions), then it will eliminate the actually principle of BTX in the first place, because the main air column isn't maintained. Again, this may be another piece of crpa writting to some or all off you from myself, but this is how i see BTX to be. Also you would want the exhaust fans to have the same CFM (if not more) than the intake so it could get rid of the hot air. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
crash Posted June 3, 2004 Posted June 3, 2004 You should have your intake/exhaust fans pushing/pulling the same CFM anyways no matter what form-factor you use! The components in your case do not "make" new hot air, they simply heat up the air around them so there is no need to have more exhaust than intake. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hardnrg Posted June 3, 2004 Posted June 3, 2004 i can't see why chip manf's don't make a massive 5cm x 5cm heat spreader on their cpu's... then they would be SO much easier to cool... i still can't get over the barton die... it's stupid... why doesn't an 85W cpu have a heat-spreader??? dumbasses... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Newport Posted June 4, 2004 Posted June 4, 2004 Its proly another way to keep their prices down... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
HomerJaySimpson Posted June 4, 2004 Posted June 4, 2004 I dont see how a heatspreader would make a big difference? There's even debate if they work or not. Unless you're talking about the possibility of crushing the cpu, then yeah its a comfort to have one, but i wanna take my hs off my P4 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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