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Paraleyes · 11-20-08

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Originally Posted by MCBrown.CA

Holy posting way too much Batman!!

EDIT: so as not to interpret my post as un-welcoming: the Edit option will allow you to modify a single post to add new information.

oh, and asking for rep will not get you any...

Thanks for the tip, but the extra posts are there so I could include the extra thumbnails(5 per post) as I think they're more convenient than opening a new page. As far as the Rep+ reminder... well, it is just that. So, if you don't like what you read here, don't click it. However, I'm hoping most people will get something out of this thread. I'm just giving back to this site the best way I can, so if it helps even one person, all the extra time was worth it.

Paraleyes · 12-18-08

Okay, so getting cold air into the case is obviously an advantage, but I thought to myself last week, "What does it do when it gets in there?" Uncertain of precisely how the air was cycling through my case, I decided get certain and create a custom built air duct system from the top of my case to direct air through my cheap @$$ Arctic Freezer 7 Pro HSF and then out the rear.

I made a temporary three sided piece to go on a 12cm fan just to see what would happen and when the CPU dropped 8C, I went ahead and did it right. I bent this out of a single piece of aluminum using some valley metal for roofing and some pop rivets. I picked it up at Home Depot for under $10. And yes, I'm completely aware that most of you will not believe me when I say my CPU load temps went from around 64C down to 52C Real Temp Average. When I say "load temps", I am talking about playing Crysis/Assisin's Creed. That's the most load my PC will ever see anyways other than the occasional video rendering, but I don't even know if that's more intensive or not.

The downside; my motherboard temps went up 3C. I'm guessing because that 12cm fan used to blow all over and even behind the motherboard. I'm cool with this though as my motherboard cooling is completely under control.

I'll be using the duct that came with my case to attach some 3" pipe from outside, but I doubt I'll have time to do it before the end of the year. Dropping 10C or so within ambient room temperatures really surprised me. I can't wait to see what happens when I bring in the cold winter air next month! Of course, I'll likely take off the duct then anyways, or at least make a new one so the majority of the air gets into the whole case rather than just through the CPU HSF.

Update: More "How To"s on air ducts in posts #16 & 17!

Ltar · 01-02-09

Massive props -- I've never seen a mod like this before. I think I'll be borrowing your duct design, too! ++

curly haired boy · 01-19-09

ah, ducts. i'm interested in making a duct system for my next build. this is quite informative!

btw, you can post images in the gallery (or an imagehost like imagecross.com, or imageshack.us, or photobucket.com), then have them show up in your posts. it makes things easier to follow, and you don't have to litter your paragraphs with links.

just use the [img ] [/img ] tags around the urls of the images. (be sure to remove the spaces i inserted after the Gs in the tags.)

Paraleyes · 01-19-09

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Originally Posted by Ltar

Massive props -- I've never seen a mod like this before. I think I'll be borrowing your duct design, too! ++

Hey, thanks a lot!

Paraleyes · 02-01-09

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Originally Posted by curly haired boy

ah, ducts. i'm interested in making a duct system for my next build. this is quite informative!

I came to realize that the Vantec 80mm X 38mm Tornado I was using for my top intake vent was total overkill as my CPU load temps stayed at 49, 50C whether it was on maximum or minimum CFM, so I decided to purchase a Thermaltake 90mm Blue LED Smart Case Fan to replace it. I went with 90mm this time so I could make all my bends easy 90 degree angles and have the vent line up perfectly with the 90mm fan on my Freezer 7 Pro. All I had to do was make an 80mm to 90mm fan adapter out of 1/2" particle board. I actually cut it out of an old wall shelf I no longer use, then drilled four 1/8" holes in each side for the fan screws and routered out a bevel to get the maximum airflow possible into the case after drilling the 3" hole.

In those 1st couple pictures below, you can see how to bend this aluminum if you don't have a metal brake.

Paraleyes · 02-01-09

This is my 3rd shot at this interior CPU duct and I wanted to make it the last, so I used some masking tape to find the exact angles this time rather than using the, "Ummm... right about there" method. I used my old framing triangle to get the angles and then transfered them to my work bench with some more masking tape. You can see in the last picture how great the angles turned out.

curly haired boy · 02-02-09

wow. using masking tape to find the angles - i never would have thought of that. +rep for ingenuity!

Paraleyes · 02-02-09

Here goes Batman bumping away again...

I'd really like some feedback on this. Has anybody else done anything like this? I'm very interested in any and all kinds of aggressive air cooling that you may have attempted.

mfb412 · 02-02-09

wow great job

repped for your clever methods around a cooled computer

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