antec p180 cooling issue

[bigKr33]

First my fan setup in the p180 is as follows:

the top and rear fan are set as exhaust fans. The center front one is an intake.

My problem is though is that under smart guardian my pwmic temp and chipset temps are rediculous, my chipset can get as hot as 55c>. My video card heatsink exhaust blows toward the front of the case. The chipset is right under the gpu, which i think is causing a heat spot. Think of it intake is in the front and the video card is blowing towards the front while the chipset is right next to the gpu which= problem.

Does anyone have any recommendations. I was thinking of getting a slot cooler under my gpu so i can suck all that hot air out, but i'm not sure how slot coolers work though. My room temp is 76F which is resonably warm, but i just can't imagine what will happen by summer.

 

[CraKaJaX]

are your HD's in the upper or lower chamber? I know when I got my P180 I put my HD's in the upper chamber.... bad idea. My temps dropped a good amount once I moved them into the lower chamber. Just a thought

 

[bigKr33]

No my one hd is mounted on the bottom. I think i'm just going to get a new chipset, i saw a forum somewhere about someone with the same board and the same issue and fixed by getting a better heatsink and arctic silver which dropped temps by huge numbers.

 

[Fallengod]

My temps are fine and my hds are in the top chamber. The fall pulls air in and cools them off, so it keeps hd temps way down. Like 22C. Well my main HD raptor is actually in the 3.5 cdrom drive bay, because I put one of those antec heatsink coolers on them. So main driver in very top and slave in middle drive area.

 

[Bobthelost]

Simple version is that your airflow is confused. You want to find some way of exhausting the hot air from the graphics card. You're not worried about noise so a sloot cooler would be your best option, or perhaps a AC silencer, it dropped the temps for my CPU and chipset by 4*C and i've got an A8N32. Or if you want some serrious cooling muscle remove the PCI slot covers and use calbe ties to fix a 80/92/120mm fan there and use it as an exhaust.

There's no point in swapping the board out unless you're getting instability because of the temperatures.

 

[bigKr33]

yeah last night i purchased a new chipset cooler and a slot cooler. I'm hoping i can the mother board temp down because it gets really hot. What ever my board temp is usually reflects my cpu temp which is too hot for me. I think i might get a new cpu heatsink, but i need to find one where the fan mounts on the side of the heat sink.

I did purchase that scythc ninja, but it didn't really appeal to me so i sold it to a friend, never did use that heatsink either. But lately i was looking at a zalman 9500 because of how the side ways mounting design is, but thats too expensive for a heatsink. I highly believe that my problem is that i can't get the air out from under my video card fast enough causing a heat spot, but a heatsink with a side mounted fan design would probably be my best beat, as well as a better chipset cooler.

 

[ronnystrauss]

i got a desk fan that can clip to my case and took the side off and had it blowing in the case it dropped about 20c no joke. but i guess you buy a p180 so you dont have to do something ghetto like that...watercooling?

 

[McPudd]

Hi:

My HDDs are in the lower chamber. Cooled nicely by the stock 120x38mm fan and the 120mm fan in a Liberty 620W modular PSU.

I added an Antec 120x25mm 3/4pin fan in front of the empty upper chamber cage drawing air IN.
I replaced the upper rear fan with another of the above fans pushing air OUT.
I control the fans with a ThermalTake HardCano13 fan controller.
I removed the blowhole fan, clear duct taped over the opening and replaced the spoiler.
I removed the VGA duct and clear duct taped over the remaining holed surface.

I use a Zalman CNPS9500 HSF. Its fan draws air in from the
case?s upper interior area (especially from the RAM sticks), though its own
heatpipe, onto the Asus A8N32 Delux's heatpipe cooling fins and into the upper
rear Antec fan.

The Zalman FanMate2 controller is mounted in front on the cover of the second
from top empty 5.25? drive bay below the Hardcano 13 fan controller.

I have an ATI X1800XT. A nice feature of the upper end ATI cards is that they
vent their heat OUT of the case. I clear duct taped over the areas of the card?s I/O
vent grille not covered by cooler vent housing.

I end up with a filtered wind tunnel in each chamber.

With the fans at minimum the P180 is cool and quiet.
I will be able to crank up the fans when gaming, when I care less about noise.

The Zalman not only does a good job of cooling the CPU, it also helps move air through
the case instead of hindering it by blowing down on the CPU and causing local
turbulance like many other HSF solutions.

Reconsider the Zalman.

Happy trailz,