Well I finished rearranging my case setup to see if I can get it cooler and quieter and so far its going quite well.
With everything in stock positions for the case I was getting 30* Idle 34* Workload for my cpu and 30* for case. This was last night with the CPU fan goin full speed.
With my new setup I moved the top exhaust fan to the front to bring it more air, left the vent opened. Duct tape the vent which was meant for the GPU, installed a fan controller I had lying around to slow down the CPU fan to bare minimum. Now I cant hear anythng except the case fans which came with the case which are set to low which I'm pretty happy with since the Panaflo fan was the loudest thing in the case before my new setup.
My results with Cool and Quiet function and everything on stock speeds:
Idle (CPU @ 1GHZ): 26 degrees
CPU at 100% (CPU @ 2GHZ): 36 degrees
Case temp: 34 degrees
So yea all in all very positive results considering the 4degrees increase in case temp and CPU fan set to much lower speed (about 1/3 of the dial on the fan controller, i cant measure fan speed).
From what I can feel so far (using a piece of paper) by leaving the top vent opened the case is drawing air from the outside which flows over my CPU heatsink which could be why its getting better results. Only problem is dust so I might cover it up even though I might not get better results.
With everything in stock positions for the case I was getting 30* Idle 34* Workload for my cpu and 30* for case. This was last night with the CPU fan goin full speed.
With my new setup I moved the top exhaust fan to the front to bring it more air, left the vent opened. Duct tape the vent which was meant for the GPU, installed a fan controller I had lying around to slow down the CPU fan to bare minimum. Now I cant hear anythng except the case fans which came with the case which are set to low which I'm pretty happy with since the Panaflo fan was the loudest thing in the case before my new setup.
My results with Cool and Quiet function and everything on stock speeds:
Idle (CPU @ 1GHZ): 26 degrees
CPU at 100% (CPU @ 2GHZ): 36 degrees
Case temp: 34 degrees
So yea all in all very positive results considering the 4degrees increase in case temp and CPU fan set to much lower speed (about 1/3 of the dial on the fan controller, i cant measure fan speed).
From what I can feel so far (using a piece of paper) by leaving the top vent opened the case is drawing air from the outside which flows over my CPU heatsink which could be why its getting better results. Only problem is dust so I might cover it up even though I might not get better results.
