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On Montag 01 Dezember 2008, Martin Herrman wrote: |
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> On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 5:59 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann |
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> <volker.armin.hemmann@××××××××××××.de> wrote: |
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> > On Saturday 29 November 2008, Martin Herrman wrote: |
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> >> I'm using a Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro at my Q9300. |
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> > oh great. AC ... |
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> > just make sure to check the fan A LOT. AC fans are highly susceptible to |
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> > dust. More so than any other fan. They also need a lot of room around |
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> > the fan so the 'air vortex' can build up - without it they have a abysmal |
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> > throughput. So no cables or anything else next to it! |
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> Well, reviews I read were positive about this cooler, and it does it's |
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> job well as I'm aware of. Thanks anyway for the warning, I checked for |
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> cables and fortunately that's not an issue. In my previous PC I had a |
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> Zalman, the copper part became very dusty too. |
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because reviews only test for a view minutes in nice, big cases, with good |
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cable managment. Reviews never test a cooler over a couple of month. AC gets |
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good reviews, but if you don't clean the fan a lot or there is a lot of dust |
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in the air, the FAN suffers a lot. Their open spindle is very sensitive. |
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I don't like Zalman. No way to change the cooler. Stupid fastening system, no |
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pwm. |
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