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| Thread ID: 59277 | 2005-06-27 00:28:00 | Adding an extra fan??? | Mantis (3703) | Press F1 |
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| 367260 | 2005-06-27 00:28:00 | I've just decided to add another hdd to my pc and am also now loking at adding some more fans or ventilation. Just wondering what is the best low cost way of doing this... do fans such as these work well, or are there better ways to add cooling? www.dse.co.nz www.trademe.co.nz and excuse my ignorance but how do you install or where do fans like this go? Do they fit inside your pc or do they fit somewhere in the back panel?? www.dse.co.nz thanks as always. M. |
Mantis (3703) | ||
| 367261 | 2005-06-27 00:36:00 | They all go inside, the first one will take up one slot on the back next to your modem or graphics card, the second will sit near your CD/DVD drive, the third will go in the front/back/side/top, where ever you have a mounting for a 120mm fan. | Rob99 (151) | ||
| 367262 | 2005-06-27 01:40:00 | I placed one of those 4 inch/120 mm fans in the front of my case to blow over the hard drives I have in the front . If you can't get air IN, there's no use trying to get it OUT . Remember that the power supply is sucking from inside the case and blowing/exhausting out the rear too . So, IMHO, if you have too many exhaust fans taking up the places where air can get IN, that's a real problem . I just try to intake/inhale at the front of my case, and exhaust out the rear . It makes the air a lot less confused by not having it trying to be several places at once, all trying to get out . That would create a dead air zone fer sure dude! (a little surfer talk there!) |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 367263 | 2005-06-27 01:41:00 | But with the 120mm fan you would need to check whether the case has been designed for that fan size, some cases have one or more provisions for 80mm fans. They will be powered either from connections on the motherboard, your motherboard manual will say, or from an adapter that plugs into a spare molex power connector. Sometimes you may find you have to make up your own connectors. | Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 367264 | 2005-06-27 01:50:00 | Yeah, I forget that not everyone has an Enermax case . It has room for a lot of fans! Actually, Enermax has a kinda flow-zone thing going for it . If you put a large 4 inch fan in the front under the stealth drawers, then you get a full-flow over/under/thru the hard drives . I have 8 hard drives in there, so I need the airflow . All along the top of the tower, there are exit holes for anything that is left over after being directed/handled by the fans . An aside here: I have 11 fans in this system, some on boards, and I still use a liquid cooling on the CHA and the CPU . I used to use the cool air from under the house to cool the system, but that had a dusky odor to it that I didn't care for much . Kinda sounds like a squadron of helocopters until the controls take over and adjust the speeds . And then there's the "after-run" fans that go full blast for 10 minutes after I turn it all off too . |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 367265 | 2005-06-27 02:12:00 | From memory my case does not have any room at the front for any fans... here is my case.... www.cbconline.co.nz (sorry I couldn't find the koala website) Since this is the case, what would be the next best solution for me? Thanks. M. |
Mantis (3703) | ||
| 367266 | 2005-06-27 02:33:00 | Your case looks like a mid-sized tower to me, and that's about what I have..are you sure that if you take the front panel off, there's not a spot that's pre-drilled for fans? | SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 367267 | 2005-06-27 02:34:00 | Have a look here: www.psicase.com Remove the front of your case and see how many, if any, 80mm fan positions there are. Looking at the rear of the case will tell you how many 80mm fans positions there are, they will be areas with perforated holes, with 4 outer holes for the fan mounting screws. Edit : the site above also indicates some Kaola cases will take 120mm fans |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 367268 | 2005-06-27 02:36:00 | An aside here: I have 11 fans in this system, some on boards, and I still use a liquid cooling on the CHA and the CPU. Kinda sounds like a squadron of helocopters until the controls take over and adjust the speeds. And then there's the "after-run" fans that go full blast for 10 minutes after I turn it all off too. Yep, seriously noise problem. And way too many fans. First, is the PC running hot? If not, don't worry about it. If it is, the first thing I do is change the stock CPU cooler for a better one. My AMD Cpu has a XP-90 heatsink with a Vantec STealth fan on it. Very quiet and much cooler than with the stock HSF. www.overclockers.co.nz for all your cooling needs. Read the reviews, and note the decible rating for fans, whether case fans, cpus fans or whatever. 21 decibles or less is best. Then if you still think its hot, add a fan sucking out at the back of the case. Usually these are 80mm in standard cases. And maybe one sucking in from the frount or like my case, it has one sucking in at the side and it blows right over the cpu cooler. So in effect, my CPU has 2 fans. But I doubt its really running that hot. The CPU cooler can make a huge difference. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 367269 | 2005-06-27 02:36:00 | I agree Terry, there's a lot of room there for him to put in a few extra fans....at least 2 80's. | SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
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