My Case. Suggestions - Opinions?

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aleckz

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try hiding your wires either zip tie them to the motherboard panel or something, dont let them block in coming air to your heatsink. Try getting a PCI slot fan and mount it on the side of the heatsink, touching or atleast close, and have it blow air through the heatsink. I had atleast a 4C drop with that technique. You could always try ducting, but its not that great... I use air filters in my case with just normal LED fans going around 2800rpm, good airflow, the cables need to be reduced to a minimum, the less you can see the better, if you have to put 2 fans on the bottom of your case ( you'll need a dremel, may be a jig saw ) and blow air up through you case . Then your front fans will push the air out to make more of a cooling effect. There are so many ways to do things, just think about it.

I personally think that you dont need the side fan because its putting too much air into your heatsink. Thats my own opinion though. Another good idea I just thought of was to use the bottom two 5 1/2 bays and put fans in them, hot glue them down or something, make a grill or something of the other. As I said before just try stuff, invest 20 bucks in your case project :)
 

FelixDeCat

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Originally posted by: howdyduty
So, does it run cool and quiet? Temps? Noise? BTW, thanks for sharing the pics.

Quiet - relitively for two 92mm 4000rpm fans and five 80mm fans - SEVEN total (2 in ps).

Cool - Yes, very.

Temps - Not measured, but bios reports 80-85F

Noise - The two fans are speed adjustable and set at 3200 for the rear and 3600 on the cpu

Pics - Your welcome :D