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Help a 5 fan thermaltake

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imported_slippy

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I have an aluminum thermaltake Xaser V 8000a wingo. The case has 3 90mm fans and 2 80mm fans. My problem is that I believe with 5 fans I should be getting better temps than

34c idle athlon 64 3000+ 939
34c asus a8n-sli

If I open the side of my case while its running, the cpu goes down to 33 and the mobo goes down to 30 at idle. I would rather have these temps.

Extenuating circumstances may be the neopower 480 which I believe is putting off a ton of heat into my system.

Also, I have an msi 6600gt, and who knows how hot that thing is running since it has no thermal sensor.

Finally... maybe since the cse is aluminum it's holding the heat in somehow.

I know people say not to trust the internal sensors, however, what would be a good thermal diode tester?

Also, is there some configuration with these 5 fans I should be considering?

My system is not OC'd and is running stock for everything.
 
So I've experimented a little and have an interesting finding. I took the fans off the rack on the side of the case, and set it standing up inside the case, pointing directly at the motherboards chipset. My feeling is that the fan on the asus a8n is very underpowered. I am going to put a 120mm fan in this place permanently.

I put the second fan back into the top side of the case, but I didn't push it all the way in... I let it come out about 2 inches or so. It is still held on by the arms. This got it closer to the cpu, but also allowed the fan not to be smothered. The fans on the side cases, while looking ok, are actually smothered by the side of the case and don't produce adequate airflow... and quite honestly waste energy for the amount of output they actually do when smothered like that..

The system has been running for about 10 minutes and is at 32 cpu/ 27 mobo. I would consider that a serious improvement. I'm now to the point where I think I might modify this whole case to optimize it for maximum airflow.
 
First of all what fans are you using.

Second of all you do not need that many fans. 4 case fans... MAYBE 5 if you have a top vent would be appropriate. However, having a fan on the side panel does adsolutely nothing.

You can only cool so much with air cooling. What is your ambient room temperature.

-Kevin
 
It's about 70 F in the house, about a foot of snow outside of the house.

The fans I'm using are the 5 fans that came with the case.

http://www.thermaltake.com/xaserCase/WinGo/v8000a.htm

There is a vent on the side where one of the side fans was to draw in air, but it was half suffocated, and the other one was nearly completely suffocated.

I've noticed there is no difference if I have air being pulled out of the blowhole fan at the top of the case, if anything it made it hotter. In fact, I've sealed that off with tape now, as I believe it was seriously misdirecting airflow.

The one that I have on the side now, since it has some space, is able to actually draw air and push it to the cpu heatsink, which has dropped it 2c.

And before someone bitches me out for buying this case... it was the cheapest aluminum case I could get from mwave when I made my order, and buying a steel case would have cost just as much with shipping and would have weighed twice as much making it annoying to move around. I didn't buy it for its flashiness, though I do like that I can look inside to make sure my asus chipset fan is working whenever I feel like checking it.
 
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