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Internal Case partitions

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titan151

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Hi again,

I am thinking about building several cooling partions inside my case. In particuler I want to get some UV acrylic and fit a piece over my video card. This will serve 2 purposes. Will prevent a problem with my WC setup from damaging my vid card (or at least keep it mostly dry) and allow me to use my side door case fan for the video card. I guess pic's would help with this. So I plan on putting one piece in (horizontle) over the vid card extending to the drives then treating the case airflow as two seperate chambers. Anyone tried this sort of thing?
 
Originally posted by titan151
Anyone tried this sort of thing?
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Yeah,
Apple in the G5, to some degree YY, and in their BTX cases to some degree, LianLi.

the thing about dividing up the case like that is all the wiring and the fact that if you are gonna treat them as discrete zones, you will need both intake and exhaust fans for each zone to prevent airflow imbalances and dead spots.

To be honest, it won't make enough of a difference to justify the tons of labour involved.

edit: btw if your system does ever have a catastrophic WC circuit blowout, chances are your XT is proper fucked anyway.
 
hmmmm, come to think of it, I have noticed that my GF's Dell had some internal partions for the hard drives and some other things. It was somewhat interesting. The 128 megs of ram in a P4 was not. I got it going a lot faster after I took it apart and tossed it off a cliff:D :D
 
Originally posted by titan151
I got it going a lot faster after I took it apart and tossed it off a cliff:D :D
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:eek: POST PICTARS OF CLIFF (i would post my cliff-tossing cliff but my hosting is down)
 
Aslong as you have proper intake / exhaust fans for each separated region, and can get the wiring all done correctly this should work good. Will prevent hot air from cpu getting to video card and vice versa.
 
I really don't think this is necessary, good airflow in general will prevent the cpu and video card from heating each other up.

Just clean up the cabling and increase the airflow and you should be good to go, imho
 
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