good cooling solution??

[Falloutboy]

ok I've got a the standard chieftec dragon type case. currently I have 5 80mm fans in my case all push around 30cfm. two in the front and acting as an intake, one in the side as an intake, and the 2 in the back exhausting, along with my psu exhasting (antec tru 430 so not much exhaust).

I'm thinking about turning the rear two fans around and use them as intake with one ducted right to my cpu. then adding a blowhole on top of my case with one of those 172mm fans that frozen cpu sells. I figure this solution would get more cool air over the cpu and increase the volume of air in general flowing thru the case.
I'll proubly also enlarge the fan hole in the side to 120mm to give my graphics card better cooling.


anyone have any thoughts? stupid idea?

 

[Cerb]

There's hot air out the back. You have a good case, and your best bet is to make a duct from the side panel fan to the CPU. The only other thing you might want to do is some bcable management, if you haven't already.
Your video card should be perfectly fine. If not, get a VGA Silencer and be done w/ it (exhausts out the back, no need for any additional intake).

 

[Falloutboy]

yes but if you haven't noticed I'm running my CPU pretty hard. currently my case temps are int he area of 38 degrees fully loaded. if I drop my speed down too 2.2 It runs at 32. so thats a six degree swing I'd like to do away with.

I'll proubly leave the read as exhaust and add a 120mm fan right over the cpu and duct it.

still think I may add a blow hole up top not sure if i'll go with the extreme 172mm or just get a 120mm

 

[Cerb]

There's exhaust out the back with 2 80mm fans and a PSU. That's plenty for the case itself, no need for the top blowhole. But the CPU could stand to not have pre-heated air from the HDs, chipset and video card, which is where the CPU duct comes in. As cases like the Evercase e4252 can even show, the duct doesn't have to be a perfect fit to make a nice change in temps.

The VGA Silencer takes its intake and shoots it right out the back--very good for cooling the video card with minimal heat transferred to the CPU and PSU.

Given the CPU speed, I really don't think those temps are bad, but they probably could be lowered a bit.