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First of all, a new case is out of the question. I am designating my old P4 system as the fileserver and have spent as little as possible to get to this point.
Seven hard drives get searing hot, so I need some helpfull suggestions for additional air-flow other than tidying up the PSU wires (It's impossible. Antec tangles the wires and zip-ties them that way for some reason and any "touching" seems to make the AUX connector pop off).
OK, after extending my HDD cage, I had to remove the plastic cage which holds the case's 80mm input fan (Inwin S508-IW... The first available case with P4 s423 mounts and P4 PSU). This case would have seven instead of two drives and yet have LESS cooling than it did with only two? NO WAY! But I couldn't add a normal sized fan even without the fan cage. There simply isn't enough clearance. I had to buy a slim Zalman fan and temporarilly use a slim heatsink fan (Soon to be replaced with two chipset fans.). Untill I have the chance to mount them permanently, they are rigged up like this
Now, should I drill intake holes in front of the drive cage and mount the Zalman directly in front of the bulk of the drives or should I make a side-mounted blow-hole (Leaving the Zalman where it's at but more neatly mounted)? The original drive cage has vent holes perfectly sized for the two chipset fans I plan to add (See the first external shot). I don't plan on trashing that HSF, so it'll need its fan back
The seven IDE cables are as tidy as I can get them without stressing the unsecured full-length card (five here, the other two are in fan-rigging shot.). They certainly do cause dead air for the Intel i960RM RISC CPU though. I don't want another blow-hole just for that though and mounting it one slot higher for a slot-fan would only suspend those cables in the middle of the case, blocking air to the rest of the system. Any suggestions?
Seven hard drives get searing hot, so I need some helpfull suggestions for additional air-flow other than tidying up the PSU wires (It's impossible. Antec tangles the wires and zip-ties them that way for some reason and any "touching" seems to make the AUX connector pop off).
OK, after extending my HDD cage, I had to remove the plastic cage which holds the case's 80mm input fan (Inwin S508-IW... The first available case with P4 s423 mounts and P4 PSU). This case would have seven instead of two drives and yet have LESS cooling than it did with only two? NO WAY! But I couldn't add a normal sized fan even without the fan cage. There simply isn't enough clearance. I had to buy a slim Zalman fan and temporarilly use a slim heatsink fan (Soon to be replaced with two chipset fans.). Untill I have the chance to mount them permanently, they are rigged up like this
Now, should I drill intake holes in front of the drive cage and mount the Zalman directly in front of the bulk of the drives or should I make a side-mounted blow-hole (Leaving the Zalman where it's at but more neatly mounted)? The original drive cage has vent holes perfectly sized for the two chipset fans I plan to add (See the first external shot). I don't plan on trashing that HSF, so it'll need its fan back
The seven IDE cables are as tidy as I can get them without stressing the unsecured full-length card (five here, the other two are in fan-rigging shot.). They certainly do cause dead air for the Intel i960RM RISC CPU though. I don't want another blow-hole just for that though and mounting it one slot higher for a slot-fan would only suspend those cables in the middle of the case, blocking air to the rest of the system. Any suggestions?
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