PC cooling advice?? - Please
#1
Thread Starter
Senior Member
Posts like a Corvette
Joined: Aug 2003
Posts: 1,205
Likes: 0
From: Elizabethtown Pennsylvania
PC cooling advice?? - Please
I am building a new pc now and I need some cooling advice. I have two 80 mm fans in the front of the case, and a 92mm in the MB side towards the front as intakes, and I have 3 80mm exhaust fans in the rear. My question is I also have a 92mm that will be going into the rear of the side door as soon as the fan arives, it will be almost over the video card, should I have it as exhaust like the 3 80mm or as an additional intake. I am going to be running the FX5200, and a hot athlon 64. What should I do here?
One additional question, one of the 92mm is temp controlled and one is not, where to you think the temp controlled one shoud be, front intake or rear whatever?
One additional question, one of the 92mm is temp controlled and one is not, where to you think the temp controlled one shoud be, front intake or rear whatever?
#3
You want as much exhaust as possible. it'* a small volume in there, so pushing more air in doesn't do as much good as you'd want to think. You want to suck the heat and dust out. And the temp controlled one is definitely an exhaust fan.
#4
Negative pressure is better then postive pressure in some cases (towers), but the key thing is air flow. Hide your cables behind the Mobo tray, and the Drive bays. So they go behind them, and pop out right by the component. Have a case that has good inlets in the front, and 2 fans in the back, and one on top as a blow hole. Fan bus controllers are nice too. But anything more then 5-6 fans is too much, and too turbulent.
#5
Senior Member
Posts like a Northstar
Joined: Jan 2004
Posts: 652
Likes: 0
From: Kansas - yet again...
Originally Posted by MOS95B
You want as much exhaust as possible. it'* a small volume in there, so pushing more air in doesn't do as much good as you'd want to think. You want to suck the heat and dust out. And the temp controlled one is definitely an exhaust fan.
#6
That'* overkill. Great advice. PULL the air through. More pull than push. And mount the thermostat fan at the exhaust, at the highest position. Heat rises. It'll sense the hottest air that way.
Try for twice as much pull as push. Even (especially) if you have to ditch some of those fans.
Try for twice as much pull as push. Even (especially) if you have to ditch some of those fans.
#8
Senior Member
Posts like a Northstar
Joined: Aug 2002
Posts: 602
Likes: 0
From: Toledo, Ohio 2002 SSEi
Instead of hiding the cables behind the tray (and possibly damaging them), get cable wraps. They are similar to wire looms that you use in the engine bay. Wrapping the cables will consolidate the bundles and they will all be round instead of flat to allow more air flow. Most PC shops are starting to carry these. This way you can still easily access cables for swapping and maintenance.
#9
Thread Starter
Senior Member
Posts like a Corvette
Joined: Aug 2003
Posts: 1,205
Likes: 0
From: Elizabethtown Pennsylvania
Originally Posted by kazuki
Originally Posted by MOS95B
You want as much exhaust as possible. it'* a small volume in there, so pushing more air in doesn't do as much good as you'd want to think. You want to suck the heat and dust out. And the temp controlled one is definitely an exhaust fan.
As for the 2nd 92mm I will take your advice and use the temp controlled on in the back side of the case and set it up as exhaust. Thanks Guys
#10
There'* no need for 64 bit computing for a while. People say it'll speed up computing, but the consumer has no use for 64 bit processing. The best thing that could happen to us right now is software elegancy.