Fan holes, and help rounding them...

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kill4killin

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Ok, so here is my project (on top of the sound dampening one.

I recently cut out the grill for the rear exhaust fan on my computer and put in one of the less restricting ones from newegg. However, most fan holes are usually round...this one however was sort of an hexagon shape so its not the same shape as the fan and frankly it just looks bad from the outside of the case. I heard that you can get like window molding to go around the edge and that will round it out because it cant bend enough to fit the sharp corners so i was thinking i would do that. Does anyone know exactly what my friend was talking about wit that stuff, and if i can get it at walmart since ill be there getting my case foam anyway?
 
Can you post a pic? I'm a little confused.

Can't you round it out with a Dremel?
 
TED!

They don't have it at wal-mart, there is some stuff at Auto-Zone though...

There is really no great way to cover it up and make it perfect though...
 
Yea, ill take a pic while i have it un-hooked for the matting project. It will be up in the morning
 
So I lied, i have it up tonight.

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you could get automotive window weather stripping but that is a big hole :eek:

not good man... no real way to fix other than get some alu sheet and cut a sqaure bigger than the hex hole and then use a dremmel and go slowly and make a round hole......
 
Ok, ill try the window trimming, but if that doesnt work, iv been considering just getting a new case, because the more i use this case, the less i like it. Thanks though.
 
Not true. The C moulding sold at places like autozone often comes with an adhesive in the track. this will adhere well to shapes like you have. Trust me... I cut out 2 80mm fan holes and converted it to a single 120mm fan hole. Looked like HELL until I put the C moulding on (it had sharp corners too, but if I were you I'd try rounding out your corners a bit) and a black 120mm fan grate. Pics can come tomorrow morning if you need them.

After that, consider getting one of those badass aluminum fans, and mounting it on the outside of your case... Couple that with fan grills on both sides of the hole and it'll be MUCH improved. 2 80mm aluminum fans have saved my but many times, as they're so big they cover up lots of sins.


Is that the raidmax X1? (I want a cookie).
 
God, i read the title as "Fun Holes"

Anyway that does look bad. I don't think there's a good way to make that look pretty.
 
lol, yes they are bad, those were courtisy of my friend psycosquirell, he came over and i had only cut out the round part, but then he continued to cut after he got a hold of it, out around the far edges of the fan grill.

However, ill try that C molding stuff and see if that helps, ill go out to the store and get some today. And yes Arcygenical, it is the X-1 (gives a cookie). If you want it, ill probably be selling it in favor of a different case without a front door. So if anyone wants it, mail me and ill talk to you about it.

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also looking for suggestions on good cases that have lots of airflow through them and use preferably 120mm fans if anyone has any good ones in mind.
 
Gosh man honestly I'm not sure there's really anything you can do about that. :(
 
kill4killin said:
lol, yes they are bad, those were courtisy of my friend psycosquirell, he came over and i had only cut out the round part, but then he continued to cut after he got a hold of it, out around the far edges of the fan grill.
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It was the only way to get rid of all the perforations that the stock grill had :(

If you think its my fault, I can fix it for you... It wouldn't be that hard to cover up with another piece of aluminium. I will talk to you on Xfire about it if you want me to try it.

BTW- my name is synaps3 on these forums...
 
synaps3 said:
It was the only way to get rid of all the perforations that the stock grill had :(

If you think its my fault, I can fix it for you... It wouldn't be that hard to cover up with another piece of aluminium. I will talk to you on Xfire about it if you want me to try it.

BTW- my name is synaps3 on these forums...
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why'd you hack up his computer man. :p
 
lol, its all good "synaps3" lol, your still psyco to me though.

Anyway, yea i know it was, im just busting your chops about it.

Don't worry about it, im getting a Lian-Li case soon probably anyway, so whatever, ill talk to you about a new case on xfire today though.
 
Aight.

I'll see what I can think up to fix that hole and make it look better :cool:
 
What exactly did you cut the hole with? I would buy a new case, thats a very sloppy cut no offense or anything. Use this case as a practice case before working on your new one. GL buddy!
 
itschop said:
What exactly did you cut the hole with? I would buy a new case, thats a very sloppy cut no offense or anything. Use this case as a practice case before working on your new one. GL buddy!
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tin snips. :D
 
Nibbler.

The holes on the original grill were all over the place, well outside of where the fan actually draws air from. That is why the hole is so big. It was not filed, and definently still needs work. Probably going to make a aluminum cover for it...
 
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