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Anyone tried this cooling solution?

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Spankthru

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Have you ever tried an apparatus that takes the HSF air blown from the CPU directly out
of the case? i.e. some sort of conduit that connects the CPU Fan and the back fan that blows out? I kinda got the idea from Johnny Bra and he reported a 5 C drop in ambient temperature. Has anyone tried this? I'm thinking of putting a flexible aluminum tube over the CPU and connecting it to the outtake fan. Or would the rest of the PC's hot air just be trapped?
 
I'm messing with something like this right now. I decided to try cooling my Celeron 366 @ 500 with a PEP66 and NO fan. Idle temps were essentially the same as case temps but under load (cpuburn) the cpu got up to 54C. With an Exhaust fan and a bit of flexable hose from a cloths dryer between the heatsink and the exhaust fan I got about a 5C drop in cpu temp. I should note that the PS in this box has it's vents in the back rather than in the bottom like most newer ATX supplies. If the vents were on the bottom I could probably get away without the extra exhaust fan.

P.S. Ambient is the room temperature so don't expect any case mods to affect it.

P.S.S. Another thing I discovered is that one of my hard drives (a Maxtor 40+) has gotten really loud in the last few months and nothing short of replacing it is going to make this system acceptably quite.
 
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