On Sun, 5 Jul 2020 21:02:31 -0700 (PDT), AK
wrote:
My computer was doing an image save of my hard drive to a second hard drive. (Gparted)
I have done that many times.
But I heard some unusual sounds coming from my computer case.
So I took off one of the side panels and could feel some heat that seemed uncharacteristically high.
I put a thermometer in and it read around 100 degrees F.
After the process, the temp went to around 80 degrees.
Do I need to be concerned?
Thanks,
Andy
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I used to build all of my computers and one of those cheap
indoor/outdoor thermometers was a great tool (the one with a probe on
a 3 foot wire)
You could put the probe in various places in the case, close it up and
run some hard hitting software to see where the hot spots were. Then a
little ducting and maybe some extra fans would bring the interior
temps down. I used to shoot for max 10-15 degrees above ambient on the
main unit that was out on the bench. Usually that was right over the
display processor chip. After seeing some commercial high performance
machines, I tried to get the air coming off the CPU out by the
shortest route.
I also found the power supply fan stopped being enough about the time
the first Pentium came out.