PC Mods Power-Down Protector Review

[Ioman]

System Cooling.net has a review of the Power-Down Protector For your computer

http://www.systemcooling.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=145]

The principle can be explained thusly: the Power-Down Protector does exactly what its name implies: it allows cooling to continue for a span of time after the machinery, automobile, or in our case the computer, is turned off. Quite obviously, at the moment of shutdown the heat generated by the equipment or computer has not dissipated, but, in fact, when cooling ceases abruptly the case temperatures will rise dramatically, as will the possibilities for serious damage.

[Suicide]

Sweet... Gonna have to pick me one of these up so I can remove the 120v fan from the side of my gf's athlon (this is what it's job was heh)

[Ioman]

So Why would I want something like this? I kind of find it to be completely useless?

[SponGeBoB]

when you power down your CPU stays hot for a while especially the athlons so to add something to help in cool down reduces the strain on the cpu

[Ioman]

Originally posted by SponGeBoB
when you power down your CPU stays hot for a while especially the athlons so to add something to help in cool down reduces the strain on the cpu

Gotcha. WellI can tell you my Athlon is on 24 hours a days and every day and I have never had a problem with it being too hot on power down. How much does this thing cost anyways?

[flashfire]

I was running an athlon 2200 w/o a system fan and my cpu temp is never above 120 degrees Farenheit (usually around 90 degrees). I never turn the machine off, but I've also done absolutely no overclocking or anything. When I added a new Parhelia card to the mix, it did raise the internal case temperature into danger levels and I added a very quiet system fan. I think that as long as you're using a non-mod'd configuration and you keep your case in a well-ventilated air-conditioned area, you'll be fine.

[dang]

Wow..thats kinda nutz. AMD chips have no protection from overheating and will basically fry, unlike intel chips.

[flashfire]

Well, I do have an absolutely incredible cpu fan and really big heatsink. I was trying to come up with ways to limit the noise output. I have 7 machines running in one room at a time, fan noise is a bit of a problem. Dropping the system fan did eliminate noise, but as I strayed from the path of cheap video, I was forced to add further temp. controls. At this point, I'm considering running a continuous water coolant system through all 7 machines at once. I'm betting that I can cool the whole system w/ one pump and lots of tubing and just one fan on the radiator end of the system.