Help with attaching fan to HS

Cryptic

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Well I ordered my xp-120 and asked around for what fan to get and I was told to get the 92mm Tornado fan, but it doesnt seem to fit on the HS. I was wondering if there was any way to mod it to get it to stay on? or if I'm SOL...any help would be helpful, thanks.
 
it should fit just fine, i fit a panaflo, its a tight fit getting the clips on
<edit> whoops, just noticed xp-120 and not xp-90.. yea... some retrofitting will be in order, but just get a larger fan that will move same ammount of air for fraction of noise
 
Mine is a Vantec

Edit, I think I found a way, will let you know when I'm done...heh. Wish me luck :(
 
i thought it came with clips that allowed the use of a 92mm and 80mm fan?
 
(cf)Eclipse said:
i thought it came with clips that allowed the use of a 92mm and 80mm fan?
Nope...so I guess I have a big ass case fan laying around...I found some local computer shop way out in the boonies here...they said they had one...so I'm gonna go check it out...argh :(
 
Holy hell, I just fired that fan up, I'm almost happy it doesnt fit...its that loud.
 
Well I just got the 120mm fan on it, its up and running. Idle temps went from 47c~48c to 40c~43c. Not an impressive drop, BUT that being said, I had to fidle with it for awhile to get it to clip, so I could have messed up the paste and whatnot...so I will leave it a couple days see what happens...I will notify you of load temps after I put a load on it

For any of you keeping up with this...the highest temp I saw with WoW, winamp, Trillian and firefox open was 53c.
 
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