Stephen; FYI,...Wallabees are shoes in Canada, not animals. About cooling your case, HP started fabricating plenums ( square or rectangular tubes made of plastic or metal that usually act as a path for air to travel -ie; in air conditioning systems in large buildings) for many of their newer cases. These plenums are hard-mounted inside the case and extend from just above the CPU to the back of the case where they expel warm air through a grill. Most of them have an additional fan mounted inside, and attached where the plenum meets the back of the case. These fans help the CPU fan by sucking air out of the case as the CPU fan picks up the warm air from the CPU. I thought you might want to know in case you have some materials on-site that you can use to duplicatre this. If you get a chance to look inside an HP pavilion desktop PC, you should see what I'm talking about.
Hope the info helps (?) Lanman *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** On 7/7/2003 at 12:29 AM Stephen Kuhn wrote: >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" > > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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