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| Thread ID: 54351 | 2005-02-10 02:51:00 | Intake and Exhaust fans | Mike (15) | Press F1 |
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| 323449 | 2005-02-10 04:35:00 | You're obviously not an economist, Mike. ;)No, I'm a parent :D :p Mike. |
Mike (15) | ||
| 323450 | 2005-02-10 04:39:00 | Actually, you can pay over $45 each for a quiet, high cpacity, ball bearing fan - get three of those and a case starts to looks tempting!I can also spend $700 for a nice new case with few fans and little air flow :) But I don't see the point when I can get something just about as good for far less cash. Mike. |
Mike (15) | ||
| 323451 | 2005-02-10 08:09:00 | install a couple of fans in the 2 80mm vents. if you can move the harrives up there to. don't worry about the PSU, theres not much you can do and nothing that really needs doing (unless its an elcheapo with no vents underneath). make sure of course that the front can flow the amount of air. speed controller on the fans helps keeps the noise down when things are cool. |
tweak'e (69) | ||
| 323452 | 2005-02-10 08:13:00 | install a couple of fans in the 2 80mm vents. if you can move the harrives up there to.Harrives? don't worry about the PSU, theres not much you can do and nothing that really needs doing (unless its an elcheapo with no vents underneath). make sure of course that the front can flow the amount of air. speed controller on the fans helps keeps the noise down when things are cool.Not sure about how much airflow the front will allow... might need some modifying. I don't have a speed controller, only an on/off controller based on temperatures... Mike. |
Mike (15) | ||
| 323453 | 2005-02-10 09:25:00 | soz i ment harddrives....the usual tweak'e creative spelling/typo's ;-) if they are quiet fans just run them all the time. |
tweak'e (69) | ||
| 323454 | 2005-02-10 16:56:00 | I'm inclined to think people worry too much about cooling and adding extra fans. Remember all the fans in the world will not cool anything. All the fan does is circulate the air and blow the heated air out the top.As the heated air is blown out new air flows in the bottom. Fans will increase the flow rate if they are correctly positioned. If you have major obstructions inside your case the air may be trapped there and never get out. Things like ribbon cables will block your flow. I have found that useing SATA my temp has dropped by about four degrees.Don't overlook the fact that if the room temp goes up all the case temps will go up at the same rate. An example: Yesterday afternoon I had a room temp of thirty four degrees. After three hours of hard work (playing games) my CPU temp was 51 and MB was 46 degrees. Still well within limits , but ten degrees higher than it gets when room temp is in the low twenties. Ten minutes after finishing my work with the computer just idleing CPU temp had dropped to 46. I might add I have a stock standard CPU fan and heat sink and a standard PSU fan. I do have a hole in the back of my case to fit another fan, but haven't got around to fitting one. If I did it might suck the air through a bit faster and thereby stop the temp rising by a few degrees but it is unnecessary. Jack |
JJJJJ (528) | ||
| 323455 | 2005-02-10 19:44:00 | I'm inclined to think people worry too much about cooling and adding extra fans.I'm not worried about the heat in my case, but I have in the past experienced what overheating can do to a PC (not this one - a 486 years ago), and want to minimise the chance of that happening again. Its more about reducing the risk of a problem arising, than solving a problem I've already got. Mike. |
Mike (15) | ||
| 323456 | 2005-02-10 20:27:00 | I'm not worried about the heat in my case, but I have in the past experienced what overheating can do to a PC (not this one - a 486 years ago), and want to minimise the chance of that happening again. Its more about reducing the risk of a problem arising, than solving a problem I've already got. Yes, prevention is better than cure. ;) Besides, is it not true that components are happier and last longer the cooler they are? |
FoxyMX (5) | ||
| 323457 | 2005-02-10 20:32:00 | Yes, prevention is better than cure. ;) Besides, is it not true that components are happier and last longer the cooler they are?Exactly what I was trying to get across :) thanks ;) Mike. |
Mike (15) | ||
| 323458 | 2005-02-10 21:08:00 | An example: Yesterday afternoon I had a room temp of thirty four degrees. After three hours of hard work (playing games) my CPU temp was 51 and MB was 46 degrees. Still well within limits , but ten degrees higher than it gets when room temp is in the low twenties. actually that sounds like you have a case cooling problem. a good case should be withen 5 degrees of room temp at all times. I might add I have a stock standard CPU fan and heat sink and a standard PSU fan. I do have a hole in the back of my case to fit another fan, but haven't got around to fitting one. If I did it might suck the air through a bit faster and thereby stop the temp rising by a few degrees but it is unnecessary. whats can happen here is the hole in the back of your case is letting heated exhaust air back into your pc. MB was 46 degrees generally speaking 40+ degrees case temp is not good for your componants. life span is greatly reduced exspecially hot running items like hardrives. I'm inclined to think people worry too much about cooling and adding extra fans your case shows exactly why people and companies such as dell,hp,compaq spend a lot of time desighning cooling solutions. |
tweak'e (69) | ||
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