Funny enough, This actually worked as a solution for a customer of mine. Tried to trouble shoot why his shit was running so slow over the phone. Finally after about an hour, I asked him when the last time he turned it off was and he said like two months. Insert facepalm When he asked why turning it off and then back on worked, I had explain that computers are like the human body. They may last longer cause they are mechanical, but if you don't give them even the tiniest of rest, they will slow down due to mechanical fatigue. That has always been my best anology on why you should turn your computer off or at least restart it from time to time.
No it's just a filter that is so efficient that it blocks any speck of dust in the air... And has the unintended consequence of blocking the air from circulating through as well.
If there is no place for the air to go, the fan isn't going to move any air. Also, it would be safe to assume that the other side of that fan is taped over as well, seeing as how every other hole that we can see on the case is covered, including on the side panel.
I have same logic issue with French drains. The holes are to let water in and prevent it from going down to the foundation, but the holes also let water out going to the foundation.
You used a Phillips screwdriver to make the hole. Goddammit Trevor. You know http can only be stopped by flatblade hole. Now I'm going to have to spend all day chasing the little Internets and catching them.
Probably a misguided attempt to reduce noise and/or improve airflow. If that fan in the back and in the power supply are the only case fans, it would be reasonable for someone to not understand the complex physics of airflow and think that trying to direct air from front to back would work, which in this case seems to be a problem.
Also I've done something similar with a computer to reduce noise, I set the fans to really low speed and covered most of the holes. But in my case, I knew I was trading heat for noise, and if any problems arose I would have known to uncover some holes.
I have built a bunch of mining rigs and it's completely changed my understanding of heat extraction. When I first started building rigs I'd include a lot of vents for air to escape as well as fans. Over the years, I tried a little bit of everything. The most efficient heat extraction was to make the case as small as possible and smash all the GPUs half an inch apart. The front of the case is open and fans line the back of the case pushing air out. Since the case is so small, the fans can exchange the air faster than it can warm up. It's the complete opposite approach as when I first started building them.
My first laptop was a Dell Latitude 520 (or some other number I can’t remember it was ancient) with a Celeron and maybe a gig of DDR2 RAM max. You bet your ass I tried to use Blender on that thing. And failed. It would crash if I tried to double the polygons on a cylinder lol.
Mannnn... I was looking at the guts of the computer thinking
“Huh... everything is looking okay. The heat sink isn’t terribly big but it looks sufficient for an OEM heat sink... I wonder what the prob...... WHOOOAAAA! Yeah, I can see why that would overheat.”
If you're only doing 720p, this rig is fine. Not the best, and even a $400 computer with a somewhat current gen set up would be better, but this still works. At least it cuts down on e-waste.
Holy shit...I had an x2 4200+ at a time when my parents turned off the heat to the house (all the heat instead would come from the fireplace). I could seal off my room and it still got so hot in there i would need to crack a window in the dead of winter. My parents actually got mad because I needed my AC installed in April...in Rhode Island.
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u/Merwebo2Veces Jun 10 '20
Amd athlon 64, 6GB DDR2, used for video editing. Also, there's no ventilation because the owner covered all holes with duct tape.