txtmstrjoe

Sometime after I get home tonight, I'll share some of my collection of 120mm fans with everyone here in the Club. I'll provide photos, model numbers, pertinent dimensions, published performance statistics, and my personal opinions/impressions/observations of these fans.

Hopefully these can be educational, or at the very least interesting, to anyone who's into fans.

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thlnk3r

I look forward to it Joe

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blitz6804

We all know Joe is a fan of fans!

My friend was visiting the past few days which is why I have not been around much. Tomorrow is my last final (0900-1200h EDT) until I am officially in Summer. I will be in Florida from the twentieth to the twenty eighth; completely sans-internet! *Sobs.*

After that, I am going down to my parent's to house-sit from around the first until the fourteenth or so. Near the beginning and end of that, expect me to be sparse, but in the middle, I will be pretty active. What is nice, is when I go down I will be getting my other 2 GB of RAM (back to 4 GB finally!) as well as modding my case. Instead of perforating the door, I may instead opt to cut a hole in the door; depends what tools my dad will let me use.

And also, would a shroud improve or decrease performance would you think? At present, I have a 92mm fan on the door as an intake with a 10mm gap before you get my 120mm mounted on the SI-128. Would I get better performance somehow sealing the two together so it is a solid tube? What about getting rid of the 92mm all together and just make a tube from the door in? Modifying the door to take a 120mm and tubing it? What will give me the best performance? Any opinions or suggestions? I am slow at times, diagrams or photos may help.

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Raziel

Great, I look forward to that. Might give me insight & a direction for replacing the 120mm fan that exists right now. I know that it's not absolutely necessary, but I'd rather have something that does the job well, instead of wondering if this fan is going to die.

I've read a lot of complaints about this heatsink revolving around the life of the fan and that's the first thing that's replaced. So that's the reason for the searching right now. I mean, the fan is going on 2 years old, but at the same time, I'm not going to wait and see what happens.

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Blitz, I bet if you clean up those cables you'd see a difference in temps

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blitz6804

Yeah yeah, I know that. The problem is, every time I take the MoBo out (which I will do again soon) it gets worse.

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thlnk3r

Blitz, no excuses

Just keep this in mind...zip ties are your best friend

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blitz6804

So are power tools. If I had the ability to drill through the steel, I would. But I do not, so I will not.

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¤ I have no idea what it will 3DMark at 3510 MHz. ¤
¤ Upgrade budget: ■■■■■■■■■■ ($0 / ∞) ¤
¤ B.S. in Chem., Cum Laude, Minors in Maths and Crim. Justice, J.D. {Pending} ¤
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thlnk3r

Blitz, why do you need to drill through the steel?

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blitz6804

Run the worst of the cabling on the far side of the case, id est, behind the motherboard. What kills me is that every time I pull the motherboard, I get lazy, and just push the wires back in; it gets worse every time I do so.

I have had the motherboard out three times since rewiring, so that explains the increasing mess.

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¤ The Loricatus Draco life thread. Now awaiting an HD 5970! ¤
¤ I have no idea what it will 3DMark at 3510 MHz. ¤
¤ Upgrade budget: ■■■■■■■■■■ ($0 / ∞) ¤
¤ B.S. in Chem., Cum Laude, Minors in Maths and Crim. Justice, J.D. {Pending} ¤
¤ Almost all PC parts come with manuals. Ask me to find yours! ¤
¤ Want a real socket? Get Socket 939! ¤
¤ Today Txtmstrjoe presents: "[Steppings] merely indicate possible outcomes due to the law of averages being in your favor." ¤
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