I thought it would be a cool (no pun) experiment to test if the AC from the floor which is 1 meter away from my comp, should blow directly into the side panel 140 right on the GPUs.
Keep in mind the side panel 140 here is attached to case between a 140mm shroud.
After playing BF3 for about 3 minutes, I took tests with both the duct blowing in and without.
Without blowing in
Blowing in
A few degrees here and there, but the best part was the idle temps.
With the side panel fan at full 1000RPM, the idle temps of both GPUs got down to 19C and 20C!!! Bottom is hotter.
The ambient temps were 22-23C at the time good ▲ (delta)!
CPU went down as well during idle was 25C the lowest (OCed to 1.36v) and gaming was 39C. Without the duct, the CPU idle would be around 28 and gaming about 41-42C
All in all a fun quick mod.
Edited by Aregvan - 5/7/12 at 10:47am
Keep in mind the side panel 140 here is attached to case between a 140mm shroud.
After playing BF3 for about 3 minutes, I took tests with both the duct blowing in and without.
Without blowing in
Blowing in
A few degrees here and there, but the best part was the idle temps.
With the side panel fan at full 1000RPM, the idle temps of both GPUs got down to 19C and 20C!!! Bottom is hotter.
The ambient temps were 22-23C at the time good ▲ (delta)!
CPU went down as well during idle was 25C the lowest (OCed to 1.36v) and gaming was 39C. Without the duct, the CPU idle would be around 28 and gaming about 41-42C
All in all a fun quick mod.
Edited by Aregvan - 5/7/12 at 10:47am
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Blue Dream
(14 items) |
Dream Rig
(11 items) |
Best HSF
Noctua 6 Dual Heatpipe with 140mm/120mm Dual SSO Bearing Fans CPU Cooler NH-D14 - Retail |
| CPU | Motherboard | Graphics | RAM |
|---|---|---|---|
| Intel 3770k | EVGA Z68 FTW | GTX 690 | Mushkin Enhanced Redline 16GB (4 x 4GB) |
| Hard Drive | Hard Drive | Optical Drive | Cooling |
| Intel 520 180GB RAID 0 | Intel 520 180GB RAID 0 | Blu-ray read/write | XSPC Rasa 750 |
| OS | Power | Case | |
| Windows 7 64-bit | CORSAIR Pro HX850 | Corsair Obsidia 800D | |
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