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Ducting side panel fan?

BlueAcolyte

BlueAcolyte

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OK, I have a CM 690 and a DS3L. I have an 80mm fan I ripped off my Intel stock heatsink that has been mounted many different places (8800GT, hard drives, optical drives, side panel) which is attached with zipties to the bottom of the top side vent (the CM 690 has two) so it points at the north bridge. Should I bother making a duct out of cardboard or something so that it points at the chipset? This would also help angle the air to be exhausted out.

I have a tower-type Cooler Master HyperTX2 so the 80mm fan doesn't cool my CPU.
 
What about an aftermarket nb cooler? The DS3L has a large heatsink on the nb already doesn't it? You could try replacing the tim with a better quality one from Arctic Silver and/or adding a small fan directly on top of the sink. Of course, the 80mm may just work as well. 🙂 You'll just have to experiment around with it.
 
Screw large heatsinks, active cooling always works better than passive! 😛 Not that I really care.

I would replace the TIM with IC Diamond 7, but that means taking out the mobo, right?

I can't spend any money on this computer for at least a year while I work it off, (parent's idea) so another aftermarket cooler is out of the question since I already got an Accelero. My dad took one look at that and...

So I guess I will when I have some spare time (I got plenty, waiting for a PSU RMA to be shipped)
 
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