Plans for my case

[croc_]

http://www.frozencpu.com/images/products/detail_secondary_hires/cas-16_2.jpg

http://www.frozencpu.com/images/products/detail_secondary_hires/cas-16_5.jpg


cmon ... I know you like it. 3x 120mm 2x 80mm, a mobo tray, thumbscrews everywhere, nice clean design and room for MORE fans!

Eventually my plan is to put another 120mm fan up top and use an 80mm -> 92mm fan adapter for the rear INTAKE.


-------- out120 out120 --
|...................................|
|...................................|
in92.............................|
|.......in120...................|
|.......in120................out80
|...................................|
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HSF set to blow downwards.

(stock settings, no fan control unit)
2x 110cfm + 50cfm = 270 cfm in
2x 110cfm + 35cfm + PSU = ~ 280cfm out?

What I am thinking is, the cool air being blown in from the side/back will IMMEDIATLY hit the CPU/Vid Card/Chipset (HSF towards HS not sucking away) and then be sucked out from the front, top and psu. The cpu will be cooled by an slk900u w/ sunon 92mm (~50 cfm).

I am hoping this will give me enough cooling to o/c my 3.2c to 3.73ghz (DDR 466, FSB 932, ram 1:1) and still have decent temps. I don't know how hot the 3.2's get when o/c though. I have seen little about these being air cooled. Most of what I find are watercooling systems and vapochill/prommie systems.

What are your guys' opinions/suggestions/flames??

AND DON'T TELL ME THE CASE IS UGLY, I like how it looks. :P

[Xenogeared]

the case is ugly ;)

what are the switches in the drivebay for

[Geeky1]

Rear intakes have a bit of a problem, you know. Where does the hot exhaust air from your PSU exit the case?

I'll give you 1 guess. ;)

Rear intakes will make you re-circulate that air if you don't do it properly.

I also don't like the fact that it has no hard drive cooling. Any hard drive with a rotational speed >=7200rpms REQUIRES active cooling; it's not so much the 7200rpm drives that get hot as it is the controller chips on the bottom of the drives. @ 10,000rpms though, the entire drive needs cooling.

You up for trying something a little different? I've never done this inside of a case, but it works well enough outside of one, and in theory it'll work...

What about adding 2 more 120mm fans on the side panel, and opening up the rear of the case, removing all the other fans, and covering all the holes with wire mesh?

The idea being that the motherboard and the stuff attached to it will be bathed in a stream of cold air that's blowing onto it at a 90* angle, and the air is then just allowed to find it's own way out of the case; if you have enough open area in the case in the form of unused fan cutouts and holes you've cut and stuff, there will be little/no backpressure, and it should work fine.

This is basically how the G5's case works, btw.

[croc_]

Ugly = noes.
Switches = higher model that comes with a fan controller.

Rear intake / PSU exhaust. Got that covered. Dell case has a 90 degree rounded duct for the HSF (actually it only uses a rear exhaust fan with a duct to the HS) I will attach that to the PSU exhaust to duct the hot air upwards leaving the rear intake underneath it free to suck in all the cold air it needs.

I do like your idea though, so basically turn all the fans into intake fans and let the air escape from the rear on its own?

I haven't dont any modification to the case yet, so I am open to all suggestions. I do plan to mod it. :)

[Geeky1]

Croc, not quite... you turn the side fans into intake fans and have no other fans at all. If you turn them all into intake fans, you'll have zero airflow.

[croc_]

Yeah all the side fans, thats what I mean't. You did say remove all other fans. :P~

I COULD add one 120 taking up the bottom 2 5.25 bays blowing in, wouldn't that push the air towards the exit faster?

[Geeky1]

Not quite sure what you mean, but there's really only one way to find out: try it.

You might try just disconnecting the power to all the case fans, except the 2 side fans (make sure they're blowing into the case) and see what it does like that, too.