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Heat Ducting in your case: Any suggestions or experiences?

SP33Demon

SP33Demon

Lifer
Guys,

I read somewhere that heat ducting from the HSF give you great CPU temps... Any truth to this? Has anyone lowered their temps doing this with a home mod? Any proposed designs? 🙂
 
I guess you mean connecting a tube from the case exterior to the heat sink fan. it seems from articles I've read that 4-5 C can be saved using this technique. instead of tying up a big ol' tube inside the case, I just run my computer without a side panel. I save 4-5 C like that as well. Regardless of how well air flow is set up, the inside of a case will always be warmer than the outside, unless 1) it is open to the outside environment or 2) air is piped into the sytem .

I also think the ducting a fan to the outside will cause the fan to undergo more stress/work, since it is pulling air from a single, uniform direction over a given length.
 
hmm, not sure if the fan will undergo more stress? I was thinking about ducting one tube from the front intake to my PCI/CPU/HSF area.... Then have a separate duct for the PCI slots and the another duct for the HSF, each with respective 80MM blowholes... Anyone think this will work, and will it decrease my CPU temps?

I am currently running it with the side off, but I want it to be almost silent, and having HD coolers and the HSF making noise is a hinderance to my objective of silence 😉
 
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