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post #1861 of 1868
3/10/13 at 12:39pm
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Thanks, it would do the job but its quite expensive for a single job frown.gif


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post #1862 of 1868
3/10/13 at 1:09pm
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Hey!

What should I do with that fan,with you can see on Picture 1?

At Picture 2,I placed 120x120 fan next to InWin sign. I've got free place in 5.25 bay,but I don't have so much coolers.

At Picture 5 I removed the exhaust closer to the back of the case and blocked,also reverted other fan as intake.

So,my questions are....what should I do with fan,with you can see on Picture 1? Place it inside of 5.25 bay? I've got very much air comming out from 5.25 bay,if I remove plastic I can feel it...,.I feel I've got now negative air setup...
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post #1863 of 1868
3/10/13 at 4:34pm
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Hey!

What should I do with that fan,with you can see on Picture 1?

At Picture 2,I placed 120x120 fan next to InWin sign. I've got free place in 5.25 bay,but I don't have so much coolers.

At Picture 5 I removed the exhaust closer to the back of the case and blocked,also reverted other fan as intake.

So,my questions are....what should I do with fan,with you can see on Picture 1? Place it inside of 5.25 bay? I've got very much air comming out from 5.25 bay,if I remove plastic I can feel it...,.I feel I've got now negative air setup...

The fan in picture 1 can act as a 5.25 bay intake, or a mid case fan attached to your hdd drive cage pointing at your gpu.
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post #1864 of 1868
3/11/13 at 2:00am
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The fan in picture 1 can act as a 5.25 bay intake, or a mid case fan attached to your hdd drive cage pointing at your gpu.

Hey! Thanks a lot! I will try that,when I'll get home from work..we'll see,if that will change something with my temps. I remember when I had an exhaust or intake on my top of cpu,my idle cpu temp was 29-31C. Now,when I did all,what you said,my cpu idles at 34-35C.
Maybe rhis kind of airflow aint so good,as it should be?
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post #1865 of 1868
3/11/13 at 4:50am
idle doesn't mean much, plus you gotta monitor the ambient temps in your room (ideally in front of the intake fans).
If the room temp changed chances are the temps are higher cause of that.
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post #1866 of 1868
4/26/13 at 5:28am
Pictures as promised for munching out the rear area. Used this nibbler from HERE



Not finished yet just showing you how much I cut out. Originally:




Definitely helps with the temperatures. Just used prime originally temperatures were 50+, it struggled to get over 48c, hitting 49c now and again. IDLED at 35c now 30c.

Motherboard temperatures (yay) dropped, 22c on full load, idling at the moment at 26c, was 30c-33c.

HDD was usually hitting 28c-30c, now hitting at 24c idle.

GPU benefits, 26c was hitting 30-32c idle.


That hole really does make a difference you can feel a slight breeze when fans are low, when ramped up it really just chuck out any air in the case, the back is pretty much empty.
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post #1867 of 1868
4/26/13 at 6:10am
I do love it when the back grill comes out of a case. thumb.gif

I'd suggest a shroud/duct from cooler to vent opening but things are great now. It's so good to be cool. biggrin.gif
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post #1868 of 1868
4/29/13 at 11:02am
Yeah it looks a lot better biggrin.gif just got to file it a bit and I am done.

Also, I decided to cut (Destroy!) my top panel. There was two grills for two 120mm fans there. Again need to file it down, but that's the idea

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