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Date 2004-03-02
Provider: Myself :)
Author: Murdoc
Editor: Princess Ammie
Murdoc Tube mod - How to get 23°C CPU temp on Air
This mod is very cheap (cost me £3) and its effective, to show you how effective I will give you some numbers.
First of all I will give you the details on my computer:
CPU: XP2400+ @ XP2600+
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-7vr
Memory: Corsair XMS Platinum
Video Card: Albatron Ti4200p Turbo
HDD: WD Special Edition Caviar 120gb 8mb cache
The CPU cooler I use is a Scythe kamikaze, I have also used a volcano 7+ with this mod it had very similar temperatures, just a little louder.
As I write this article the ambient temperature in my room is 23 °C the computer is quiet especially for a modern computer but I have a CPU temp of 25°C that’s 2°C above ambient, this is a temperature that water-cooling struggles to provide.
 
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This mod does have a draw back it involves having a 100mm tube outside of your window, but I have had this setup for 6+months and its not an issue for me. The ‘tube mod’ has gone through several versions, the first version I use badminton shuttle tubes and a lot of duct tape to make a tube, it brought air from outside my window to the back of my pc where a fan pulls the air into the case, this was very inefficient and it lowered my temps in the region of 5-10°C nothing to shout about really.
 
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The second version I obtained a section of 100mm drainpipe and cut this to the correct size’s to lead directly to my processor using a mitre saw, this worked much better and had a powerful fan stuck to the end out of the window. My dimensions were a little off so it was slightly the wrong shape it looked very ugly and air escaped from the joints, so this could be improved.
 
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The version I’m using now is by far the simplest and doesn’t look too bad. I used 3meters of tumble dryer hose, cost me £3, its flexible and it pushes straight onto 80mm fans with ease and is very secure, I have connected the fan from a Coolermaster jet 7 to the end out of the window, the noise from the Coolermaster fan even at full speed is quiet.
As I said above I’m very pleased with this mod, I have been running it for some time, I have even modded it by putting a blue CCFL in the tube. I had to extend a Y splitter so that I could connect power to the fan. To secure the fan to the tube I punctured holes in the tube and used cable ties to hold the fan, the tube on the other end connects directly to the fan on the CPU cooler.
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A really simple mod that works well and very cheap for the performance gain, but with a few draw backs. I have had sub 20°C temperatures at night and below ambient temperatures.
-Murdoc-
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