Critique my idea

[DiamondFire13]

I ordered some case-modding stuff today. This is what I was thinkign of doing...

Putting 2 120mm fans on the bottom of my case to suck cold air in.

Putting 2 sunon fans on my new taisol 760

making a top blow-hole and using the super quiet taisol fan on that.

Replacing my PS fan with a quieter sunon 80mm

using my old YS tech from my PAL6035 in front of my HD's.

Sealing up all of the cracks in my case

making 3/4" feet for my case to lift it up for air flow on the bottom.

Making my own rounded HD cables (just for fun, I know they dont do squat)

I also picked up 2 5 inch blue neon mights, one for the bottom to glow out and one to put behind a clouded plexiglass panel on the front.

These are my ideas... Let me know what you thin about all of this, it is going to take a long time to do, but it is going to be fun

The main things I was wondering about is the twin fans on the taisol to eliminate the dead spot in the center of the HS. I was also wondering about two fans on the bottom, I cant decide between taht and putting one on the front and one on the bottom, or maybe two on the front, I wonder waht will offer better cooling.

Well, if you would like, give me some input.

I do usually have a life on friday nights, I was just tired and slept untill now, but now it is party time, later Anandtechers.

Paul

 

[kp1126]

making a top blow-hole and using the super quiet taisol fan on that.

are you sure you only want a 60mm fan on that top blowhole?

 

[mikef208]

Well here is my critique.

Top blow hole using crappy little taisol-bad idea, not enough air flow

Dual sunons on 760-good idea, the dead spot has been annoying me for a while, so i did that to mine with a couple of old 40mm fans I had, and they still work better then the stock fan.

Putting 2 120mm fans on the bottom of my case to suck cold air in-bad idea in my opinion. For one dust is a big problem, but easyily corrected with filters. But the main problem is the fact that all the AGP and PCI cards in your system generate a lot of heat, sure blowing cold air on them is a good idea, but that hot air from them has to go somewhere and since the fans are blowing upward guess where it's gonna go, yep the proc. I can imagine a 3-5 degree jump in the proc. temp.

 

[DiamondFire13]

all of my pci cards are cold to the touch, and I am using a geforce 1 card, it really donst get all that hot, and I am going to make special cooling for it.

Thanks,
Paul

 

[mikef208]

well then, that should work out great. Let us know the temps. I may try that, what case was it again?

 

[ledzepp98]

<< &quot;Putting 2 120mm fans on the bottom of my case to suck cold air in-bad idea in my opinion. For one dust is a big problem, but easyily corrected with filters. But the main problem is the fact that all the AGP and PCI cards in your system generate a lot of heat, sure blowing cold air on them is a good idea, but that hot air from them has to go somewhere and since the fans are blowing upward guess where it's gonna go, yep the proc. I can imagine a 3-5 degree jump in the proc. temp&quot; >>

well, the hot air they generate will rise regardless of whether there are fans in the bottom or not. at least if there are fans in the bottom there will be cooler air to mix with the hot air...of course you will need good flow out of the top of the case to get this air out...