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CeaddermanÂ
That's sound reasoning R3aCt0r M|Nd. That's why I had mine exhausting out the top was to be able to clean it and mount it back into place without much of a hassle. I will suggest that you find some Koolance fan studs to make things even easier to deal with. I have them on my 360 and lemme tell ya, it takes me less than a minute to mount the 360 back to the top of the 932. They only come in M4/6-32 so they should work very well for you. Would also suggest getting silicon gaskets to seal the fan to the Radiator body as well.
The caps are metal by the way not plastic.
You can get them in 25mm and 38mm unthreaded shanks. Meaning that you can fit a 25mm or a 38mm fan on them once in place with room to spare for the caps.
I have Phobya 7mm Decoupler shrouds and Yate Loon 20mm fans on my 25mm without much thread covered. The decouplers squish a bit and seal the space between the Radiator and the fans quite well.
I'm tellin ya Mate, had I to do it all over again I would have gotten these for the H50 kit from the very beginning. They're so awesome. They take a lot of the headaches out of the cleaning process.
*EDIT* Oh I would be remiss if I didn't let you know that the top of the 932 is not level in the interior. There is a slight lip between the plastic top and the front openings where your fan mounts to. If you put a slim body fan it WILL put a slight twist into the body that can hinder the speed of the fan during operation. It's not anything that can't be adjusted for with the caps but if you're using std fan screws you can't really compensate for it without the fan being louder than normal.
~Ceadder
You sar are the Dogs Bollox! Will defo look into the koolance studs.
For the time being I'm assuming then that you feel an exhaust out the top for the H50 is still going to be giving me some decent temps ? Of course with the fresh clean out its going to be lower than my current setup and it has been rather Humid here in jolly old wet england....
I'm thinking no shrouds exhaust, just simply one San ace on the inside of my case attached to the rad, another on the outside of the case. The case mesh isn't going to be a problem due to the 99CFM these bad boys have.
http://www.chilledpc.co.uk/shop/product_info.php?cPath=75_169&products_id=1353
But of course due to the high CFM, My current intake shrouded setup in the drivebay sucks in sooo much bleedin dust its almost not manageable. My pc realistically needs to be cleaned out probably every 2 weeks at this rate!
Let me know what your thoughts are guys perhaps keeping the shrouds on would be better but its alot of weight to suspend from the top of my case and clearance could be an issue with that extra length from the shrouds I may not even have the space for my 120mm x 38mm fans due to the Ram.
Cheers!
EDIT:
Just had a proper look at the current state of my dust issue and man... It's bad and the worse thing is Ive run out of compressed air!
So I'm thinking its going to be a Hoover job! I've never used my vaccum cleaner to clean any of my pc's but it seems I have no choice in this case.
Surely if I only use the plastic nozzle attachment, all power off etc it should be fine aye ?
Edited by R3aCt0r M|Nd - 7/7/12 at 6:56am
