The secret to MY cooling...

I have discovered my personal pc "Godsend" for a warm aluminum box and, wow, is it an inexpensive way to go.



I've been using the 80mm Stealths, but these 120mm jobs are really something. Pulled out 4 open pci slot covers, installed some filter material (held in place by the bolts that hold on the covers and the sound card, itself) and then fab'd a couple mounts and bolted the fan up pointing toward the open slots (about 1.5 to 2 iinches away. Powered it with the same little kit I'm running my other external fans (300W psu attached to an old motherboard).

Hoping for a miracle and got 3 - 5 deg. centigrade less under load. Next is to put the other one in place of the top exhaust.

I can't hear it at all... I'm just afraid I'll forget it's back there one day and jam my hand in it. Did it once, not fun...

Did I mention "quiet?

 

i cut my finger pretty badly on a case fan once. another time, i shattered one with a screw driver. those 120mm's really pipe the air through. i have two on my modified dell dimension. one for the cpu, and one that sucks air past my hard drive.

 

Oh true.. they're small, spinning guillotines, but are just so efficient. If I remember the back of the box correctly, they spin about half the speed of the 80s and push twice as many cfm. Ya can't beat it, if you can find space.

Now I just have to come up with a good housing for the two I have. Hmm... I need some darn machine tools.