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Digitalcaveman

Digitalcaveman

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With this system I have instead of water cooling (too cumbersome to build) I was thinking of removing the side panel and putting a Brookstone floor fan blowing into the case for extreme air cooling. Any thoughts on that?
 
although that seems to make sense, in practice it doesn;t work as well as having a well thought out air path in a sealed case.

perhaps a good wire job and more thought out cooling inside your case will benefit you more.
 
It's awesome... if you live in a clean room.

It'll drop temps a bit, yes, but it's loud and DUSTY AS HELL.
 
what if you had it pulling air out of the case? and maybe 1-2 120/80mm in the back and maybe an 80mm in the front pulling air in...
 
Brookstone makes a very small one that fits on the floor next to it. I've done this with other systems and dust isn't an issue with regular maintenance. For all that money you really should, no matter what cooling you use pop the case and get in there with a good O2 can and blow out dust regularly. I figure a steady stream of air from front to back with a way for air to travel out of the case is the best air cooling plan. Sealing your case raises temps 15-30 degrees and makes no sense with this much heat. Plus those big fans are noisy as hell. Yes, it looks nice and sealed but I have a $1000 processor in there that needs to be cooled. I'm impressed with the Intel heat sink and fan, goes in real easy but that thing is going to need a lot of air over it and fans just don't cut it. Got to open the side panel and let the air hit the entire board, GPU's and all.
 
Digitalcaveman said:
Brookstone makes a very small one that fits on the floor next to it. I've done this with other systems and dust isn't an issue with regular maintenance. For all that money you really should, no matter what cooling you use pop the case and get in there with a good O2 can and blow out dust regularly. I figure a steady stream of air from front to back with a way for air to travel out of the case is the best air cooling plan. Sealing your case raises temps 15-30 degrees and makes no sense with this much heat. Plus those big fans are noisy as hell. Yes, it looks nice and sealed but I have a $1000 processor in there that needs to be cooled. I'm impressed with the Intel heat sink and fan, goes in real easy but that thing is going to need a lot of air over it and fans just don't cut it. Got to open the side panel and let the air hit the entire board, GPU's and all.
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jesus christ what case are you using that raises temps 15-30 degrees?!

maybe you should look into a CM stacker and just use a bunch of yate loons on the side...
 
It's real world man, I know you can achieve cooling with the case sealed but my components are all extreme and produce a ton of heat that I believe today's cases are 1. Not large enough to dissapate all that heat and 2. Do not allow enough space between the components.

And don't take the Lords name in vein :p LoL
 
You're joking right....this has to be a troll....

"my components are extreme" :rolleyes: :D :D :D :D

I mean really...this is a joke....ya?
 
all those extreme components should go into an extreme case with like 8 extreme 120mm intakes and 8extreme 120mm exhaust fans and it wont be extremely loud but youll have extreme airflow. :p
 
if you want fans with a punch and kick to them here are some the top brands I know of.

EBM/Pabst
Delta
Panasonic/Panaflo
Comair Rotron
Sanyo Denki
NMB
Nidec
ETRI

Just google each brand and it will take you were you need to go.
 
Digitalcaveman said:
I believe today's cases are 1. Not large enough to dissapate all that heat and 2. Do not allow enough space between the components.
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absoloutely- especialy number 2.
not even the largest server towers could fit my quad 120mm heater core, five hard drives, water cooling gear 8 port ethernet hub and the kitchen sink while maintaining airflow. so i built one :p

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v239/ghost6303/my%20PC/PB030013.jpg

im going to switch out those 4 fantec stealth fans with 8 yate loons shortly. just have to build another radiator shroud for the backside. these are the only fans in the pc and they are on exhaust. this draws air from the empty card slots in the back as well as slots in the sides (hidden) and washes it over the mobo from every side. (yes its made out of 1/2" pressboard, weighs about 120 pounds and has handles and wheels) it also doubles as a seat/desk and power strip at a LAN party
 
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