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Hard Drive Temperatures: Be Afraid

I recently had a noisy fan failure in my ASUS Vento 3600 case. The particular fan that failed was the 80mm fan in the front panel, which is responsible for circulating air by the hard drives in the front of the case. I disconnected it while I considered my options.

By Jeff Atwood ·
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My Giant Heatsink Fetish

One side effect of building quiet PCs is that you tend to develop a giant heatsink fetish. From left to right: * Arctic Cooling Accelero X1 on the ATI 1900XTX video card * Thermalright HR-05 on the Intel 965 northbridge chipset * Scythe Infinity on the Core 2 Duo CPU It pains me

By Jeff Atwood ·
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