On Sun, 2003-07-06 at 23:58, Lanman wrote: > Stephen; Correct me if I'm wrong, but are those "Wallabee's" you've got on in the > picture? Grin! Grin! On a different note, I'm trying to understand why you'd have a > fan blowing cool air onto a Thermaltake Volcano7 that's trying to blow air OUT of > the box, mate? Aren't you forcing air back and forth towards each other? Wouldn't it > be better to reverse the external fan so that it helps the Volcano expel warm air to > the outside of the box? > > And what's this about not having a life? You've got us, mate! LOL! > > Seriously, though,....nice shoes! > > Lanman
Ok - wallabies live near rocky places - they're smaller version of the kangaroo - here, on the flood plain below the 400+ metre escarpment, we'd have "regular" kangaroos - if it weren't for civilisation... Anyways, the Thermaltake forces air down from the fan THROUGH the block - the fan on the outside of the case is forcing air DOWN THROUGH to the Thermaltake...the fan next to the Thermaltake is sucking air OUT of the case...the fan near the lower front of the case is blowing air towards the front of the case - to cause the flow of air to not "deaden" below the hard drives. The PSU fan is also sucking air out of the case. I've got another 120mm fan - same as the one already mounted outside of the case - that I'm going to mount so that it would be forcing air into the lower front section, with a PVC elbow that's cut and modded to then force the air UP at the HD's, and have an 80mm fan mounted in the top plate of the case to suck exhaust out and up. I've created a 'filter' from a postoffice CD envelope with a piece of foam in it that sits over the 120mm fan - to limit dust going into the case - and have another for the next fan. With the current fan/filter setup, there really wasn't much dust in the case - mostly in the PSU because it's, well, cluttered, and doesn't have very good airflow. My next PSU is going to have the ducted fan that sits above the actual PSU - sucking the dust/hot air out (as hot air rises, ay?). If I had the cash, I'd try to do a watercooling setup - but that's like $300 - and well, I got kids...so I can't justify it to the wife. This fan, the Thermaltake Volcano 7, I justified because the guy at the fair wanted $45, and I pulled out $35 and said "Hey man, this is all I got" and well, he took it...(I'm sure he still made money on it...) - and it's a much better fan than the one that came from Intel with the Celery, er, Celeron... My goal is to have the CPU live at 20C - and since this is just a cheapo case that I can hack/whack to death (and I've got heaps of case parts laying around) I'm trying to come up with "forced air cooling" techniques for doing so...I'm also trying to build a "forced air box" that would have four 120mm fans forcing air through a 2.5cm tube directly onto the CPU block assembly, and another 2.5cm tube blasting directly onto the hard drives...(might even remove the HD's from the system and put them into another box and cool them seperately...) Fun fun fun... -- Mon Jul 7 00:15:01 EST 2003 00:15:01 up 1:47, 2 users, load average: 1.48, 1.28, 1.13 ----------------------------------------------------------------- | __ __ |kuhn media australia | | /-oo /| |'-. |http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |================================| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' |stephen kuhn | | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | ----------------------------------------------------------------- linux user #:267497 linux machine #:194239 * MDK 9.1 & RH 7.3 Mandrake Linux Kernel 2.4.21-11mdk Cooker for i586 ----------------------------------------------------------------- * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * Things past redress and now with me past care. -- William Shakespeare, "Richard II"
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