[NTLUG:Discuss] PC Hardware Issue

[steve]

Gilbert Morrow wrote:
> In the past when I did custom case mods and water cooling I found power
> supply to be a culprit more than once , start OCing and the PS could not
> keep up , either GPU or CPU , to many fans etc .
> I run Shuttles now and they do tend to get a little hotter than a large or
> medium tower .
> Drives do get hot but putting the hot air from the drives into the case is
> bad , or disrupting the designed air flow of the case with fans that suck or
> push additional air .
> I have in the past also pulled the heat sink off the GPU and put Arctic
> Silver in place of the white paste , not recommended unless you know what
> you are doing .

You can do that with the graphics card GPU chip too - but those things
can be very tricky to take apart.