Am I bored? Yes.
With this latest trend of putting bigger/slower/quieter fans on heatsinks of all kinds, I decided to try it with my silver orb. Mounting was tedious to say the least, first attempt ended up with it wired on. Worked, but yuck. Then a fan grill caught my eye...
Take an 80mm fan grill, stick it on the orb so the "legs" are up (so you can mount the fan later). The crossbars should fit in between the fins on the orb and the inner ring sits right on top for a nice stable fit. Now, take it back off. Remove stock fan, notice indent in center under it. Drill that (not all the way through!) a bit so you can run a screw into it. Something self tapping would be nice. Now, put the grill back on, run the screw through the center and tighten it down, voila, grill now rock solid on orb.
Then simply take your 80mm fan and mount it on the grill. Result? The fins on the orb are directly in the path of the air current from an 80mm fan, there's a dead spot in the middle, but there's a dead spot with all these 80mm conversions.
Temps - about the same. Ok, a bit cooler, though it moves a nice amount of air over the motherboard and the northbridge is cooler now. Nice little benefit.
Sound - half as much. Orbs aren't tremendously noisy to start with, but this makes it even better. Even quieter than the Golden Orbs with their 4000rpm fans were (vs silver with now what, 5500?)
Temps: (idle and running Prime95)
(all on Athlon 800, ambient temp about the same unless the AC died)
40 44 Silver orb, stock
40 46 Silver orb, with old 4000rpm Golden Orb fan
39 43 Silver orb, with Sunon 80mm 3 Pin Fan (SU80P3) 2CoolTek of course!
35 38 FOP-32, stock
37 43 FOP-32 with the Sunon 80mm.
I'm not sold on the "slap an 80mm on a FOP" procedure to say the least. Leaves a big ol gap and is clumsy as hell to install. Works great stock so I should just leave it alone, but where's the fun in that? Yeah, tried a couple different fans, the Sunon, an Enermax and one out of a dead power supply. Sunon had the biggest hub/biggest dead spot it seemed, but the temps ran about the same.
Anyway, orbers get to work, won't cool you off much, but it's quieter and lets you do something so you don't feel left out!
Guess I'll put the FOP back on now. Where'd I put that crowbar?
--Mc
With this latest trend of putting bigger/slower/quieter fans on heatsinks of all kinds, I decided to try it with my silver orb. Mounting was tedious to say the least, first attempt ended up with it wired on. Worked, but yuck. Then a fan grill caught my eye...
Take an 80mm fan grill, stick it on the orb so the "legs" are up (so you can mount the fan later). The crossbars should fit in between the fins on the orb and the inner ring sits right on top for a nice stable fit. Now, take it back off. Remove stock fan, notice indent in center under it. Drill that (not all the way through!) a bit so you can run a screw into it. Something self tapping would be nice. Now, put the grill back on, run the screw through the center and tighten it down, voila, grill now rock solid on orb.
Then simply take your 80mm fan and mount it on the grill. Result? The fins on the orb are directly in the path of the air current from an 80mm fan, there's a dead spot in the middle, but there's a dead spot with all these 80mm conversions.
Temps - about the same. Ok, a bit cooler, though it moves a nice amount of air over the motherboard and the northbridge is cooler now. Nice little benefit.
Sound - half as much. Orbs aren't tremendously noisy to start with, but this makes it even better. Even quieter than the Golden Orbs with their 4000rpm fans were (vs silver with now what, 5500?)
Temps: (idle and running Prime95)
(all on Athlon 800, ambient temp about the same unless the AC died)
40 44 Silver orb, stock
40 46 Silver orb, with old 4000rpm Golden Orb fan
39 43 Silver orb, with Sunon 80mm 3 Pin Fan (SU80P3) 2CoolTek of course!
35 38 FOP-32, stock
37 43 FOP-32 with the Sunon 80mm.
I'm not sold on the "slap an 80mm on a FOP" procedure to say the least. Leaves a big ol gap and is clumsy as hell to install. Works great stock so I should just leave it alone, but where's the fun in that? Yeah, tried a couple different fans, the Sunon, an Enermax and one out of a dead power supply. Sunon had the biggest hub/biggest dead spot it seemed, but the temps ran about the same.
Anyway, orbers get to work, won't cool you off much, but it's quieter and lets you do something so you don't feel left out!
Guess I'll put the FOP back on now. Where'd I put that crowbar?
--Mc
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