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Upgraded cooling of Mac Pro
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Send message Joined: 29 Jan 09 Posts: 32 Credit: 1,962,668 RAC: 0 |
After transitioning from OS X to Vista I ran into some cooling problems. Under OS X I can use SMC Fan Control to adjust the rear fan speed, in order to cool the memory banks. Under Vista I could not find such a tool - Input Remapper constantly blue screened my Mac Pro, so that didn't last long at all. So I decided to do some tinkering around inside: http://marokero.com/gtx295/ND3_0085.jpg http://marokero.com/gtx295/ND3_0086.jpg http://marokero.com/gtx295/ND3_0088.jpg http://marokero.com/gtx295/ND3_0087.jpg I put a SilverStone FM121 and routed the wires around the case, and installed the fan speed potentiometer in the rear. Temps are much lower now. Now I can safely crunch for MW and I no longer worry about frying my Mac Pro. ;) |
Send message Joined: 29 Jan 09 Posts: 5 Credit: 461,085 RAC: 0 |
If you have booted into Mac OS X with SMCFanControl on your desired fan speeds, won't a direct reboot (by restarting, without shutting down the MP) into Windows actually maintain the speed of the fans as per SMCFanControl settings...? |
Send message Joined: 29 Jan 09 Posts: 32 Credit: 1,962,668 RAC: 0 |
Yes, that used to work until I got the GTX 295 installed. Now I don't boot into OS X unless I first change graphic cards and really desperately need to use Aperture instead of Lightroom. |
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