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<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 2:16 PM, Gabe Rubin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gaberubin@gmail.com" target="_blank">gaberubin@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div class="h5">On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 10:58 AM, Brian Long <<a href="mailto:briandlong@gmail.com">briandlong@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 12:53 PM, Gabe Rubin <<a href="mailto:gaberubin@gmail.com">gaberubin@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>><br>>> On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 9:49 AM, Eric Sharkey <<a href="mailto:eric@lisaneric.org">eric@lisaneric.org</a>> wrote:<br>>> > On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 12:19 PM, Gabe Rubin <<a href="mailto:gaberubin@gmail.com">gaberubin@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> >> On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 5:59 AM, David Watkins <<a href="mailto:watkinshome@gmail.com">watkinshome@gmail.com</a>><br>>> >> wrote:<br>>> >> Yes, the heatsink is hot. Very much so. I think I gave myself a<br>
><br>><br>> If your heatsink is hot, that is a good sign the bond between it and the GPU<br>> is okay. I would worry about extracting the hot air from your case. If you<br>> could reinstall the cover and check your airflow, that would be good.<br>
> Depending on the age of your case, you might have an optional fan opening<br>> on the cover itself (near the GPU). Installing a slow-moving (quiet) 120mm<br>> fan would be ideal.<br>><br>> Leaving the cover off, as others have mentioned, is not a good thing since<br>
> it reduces the effectiveness of your case fans tremendously.<br>><br><br></div></div>Thanks. I will look into this. I actually removed the cover because<br>of the overheating issue. I would love to put the cover back on<br>
because it will likely reduce noise.<br><br>The mythbox is in a wooden cabinet. There is sufficient space around<br>the box but in one of the other cubby holes, there is a stereo<br>receiver that gets very hot. I think I have also had a cable box<br>
overheat ion that cabinet when it was in the cubby above the stereo.<br>I will try to give more details on the case see if there is a spot I<br>can put a case fan on the lid.</blockquote>
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<div>That may be your problem. Is the cabinet open at the back? If not, cut a hole in line with the case fan(s) to let them blow air out of thecabinet. PCs are not inteded to be kept in an enclosed space, especially at the back. All that heat needs to go somewhere and not get recycled back into the case.</div>
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