bundee1
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If you contributed the my last ***** Dell PC overheating thread thank you. Here is an update:
I bought a Seagate 400GB External HD and backed up all of my music to it. I bought a coolermaster 80mm fan and screwed it to the small grill on the side of my Dell. It is currently exhausting the hot air out. I have a dual HDD fan in the space between the plastic face of the Dell and one hard drive grill and that is blowing cool air onto the music HD. I have pci fan jerry rigged to suck out heat from the primary drive and blow it up towards the psu fan.
So far I can only get the 250 GB music HD to 40C and the primary HD to 51C.
Can you guys please post your HD temps so I have a benchmark to compare it to?
I cant find the safe operating temps for my Maxtor SATA drives in my instruction booklet or on the website.
One more question: Can you only partition a clean blank drive? I want to partition my primary drive (160GB of which 120GB are free) to add more music.
I bought a Seagate 400GB External HD and backed up all of my music to it. I bought a coolermaster 80mm fan and screwed it to the small grill on the side of my Dell. It is currently exhausting the hot air out. I have a dual HDD fan in the space between the plastic face of the Dell and one hard drive grill and that is blowing cool air onto the music HD. I have pci fan jerry rigged to suck out heat from the primary drive and blow it up towards the psu fan.
So far I can only get the 250 GB music HD to 40C and the primary HD to 51C.
Can you guys please post your HD temps so I have a benchmark to compare it to?
I cant find the safe operating temps for my Maxtor SATA drives in my instruction booklet or on the website.
One more question: Can you only partition a clean blank drive? I want to partition my primary drive (160GB of which 120GB are free) to add more music.