Antec Sonata owners: What's your hd temp?

[Gerbil333]

Questions for Antec Sonata users:

1) What temperatures are your hard drives running at?

2) What is your motherboard (case) temperature?

3) What's your approximate room temperature?

4) If you haven't wasted enough time already, feel free to list the other components and fans in your computer to give me an idea of how much heat your computer generates.

I'm wondering how badly airflow is restricted by the rotated drive cages, and if it would be safe to run one 74GB Raptor plus a 2nd hd for storage assuming a second 120mm is installed.

 

[MDE]

I have three drives in my Sonata (two Raptors and another IDE drive) and they're cool to the touch with the front 120mm fan installed.

 

[0roo0roo]

its not restricted really.. air passes past the hd's first, so why worry. dust filter always catches a decent amount so its going through that area.

 

[impemonk]

my entire case runs at a temp of 26 degrees celsius when in idle. When I play some games the temp rises to 38 degrees. Want a good case for awesome ventilation? I recommend the Cooler Master Centurion 5 series. That is what I have my rig set up with and man, the 70 bucks I spent on it may seem like a cheap buy but I am not complaining. Everyone tends to go for those ugly looking THERMALTAKE with the abstract designs and stuff. Me, I went with the case that has it's entire front made of metal mesh and perforated screen foam. AWESOME.

 

[bluslice]

Originally posted by: impemonk
my entire case runs at a temp of 26 degrees celsius when in idle. When I play some games the temp rises to 38 degrees. Want a good case for awesome ventilation? I recommend the Cooler Master Centurion 5 series. That is what I have my rig set up with and man, the 70 bucks I spent on it may seem like a cheap buy but I am not complaining. Everyone tends to go for those ugly looking THERMALTAKE with the abstract designs and stuff. Me, I went with the case that has it's entire front made of metal mesh and perforated screen foam. AWESOME.

if you have a bit of extra $$ to spend and you like the centurion 5, you might want to take a look at the cmstacker by cooler master. the chassis have similar architecture but the cmstacker is much bigger with lots more room for air cooling. check it out!

http://www.coolermaster.com/in...=+STC-T01+CM%20Stacker

 

[impemonk]

holy crap that's totally awesome!? maaan, that's my next case!!!!

 

[0010010110]

Originally posted by: impemonk
my entire case runs at a temp of 26 degrees celsius when in idle. When I play some games the temp rises to 38 degrees. Want a good case for awesome ventilation? I recommend the Cooler Master Centurion 5 series. That is what I have my rig set up with and man, the 70 bucks I spent on it may seem like a cheap buy but I am not complaining. Everyone tends to go for those ugly looking THERMALTAKE with the abstract designs and stuff. Me, I went with the case that has it's entire front made of metal mesh and perforated screen foam. AWESOME.

Nothing ugly about the Tt tsunami, the centurion 5 isn't that great either...