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Slot intake system blower?

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beachbum

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I recently built a SFF comp. (soltek)

On the right side of the computer is a built in system blower that exhales the hot air out of the case.
Of course temps are pretty high, AMD Sempron 2800+ running at 58°C(idle) with a fairly good heat sink.

What I want to do to help the airflow situation is to get an intake slot fan, something that will fit in the extra PCI slot that will bring in air then the one on the other side can of course blow the air out.

I cant seem to find one? There is no place for a fan in the back either (like on shuttles). So I suppose the best idea would to get the intake slot fan with out resulting to cutting a hole in the side of the case.
 
all the slot types i've seen is blow out type... haven't seen a blow in type...

but i've seen a gheeto setup where a 120mm fan was used to pull in "cool" air from a blow hole made at the back of the casing and blow it across the PCI slots...

the hole is a slot on the right of the PCI slots running vertically instead of horizontal like the PCI slots
 
Let me guess? No one cares?

Okay I can deal with that.

I went ahead and ordered one of those set of cutters to cut metal so I can put a fan in the back.
 
I might still think of one, but the noise is pretty high, I used to have one just like that till it stopped working.
 
All of my folding boxen have those kind of fans, because they are cheap and easy to modify, reverse the leads and it will cause a positive flow into the case and help the other fan move the hot air out better.

If the noise is to much then 7 volt mod it ( only backwards so it sucks instead of blows) and you won't even notice it, but your case temps will go down with the increased air flow.
 
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