Cooling Dynamo Cabinet

[brained]

Hello Guys... I need a little advice, I have a Dynamo cabinet 25" and I'm currently having heating issues. I have a Pentium D @3.2ghz and its cooled by a Zalman CNPS7000C-ALCU 2 Ball CPU Cooler. I opened my coin box and notice a substancial amount of heat coming of from there. I think heat damaged my previous two motherboards in the cab.

I would like some advice on cooling my cabinet or am I freaking out of nothing?

[Ginsu Victim]

Fan at the bottom, fan at the top? That's how my cab is and runs cool.

[sharpfork]

Fan at the bottom, fan at the top? That's how my cab is and runs cool.

I have a dynamo cab and to be a bit more specific on how I cool it:
Fan at the bottom pulling cool air in (with a dust filter) and fan at the top blowing out.

[Generic Eric]

Fan at the bottom, fan at the top? That's how my cab is and runs cool.

I have a dynamo cab and to be a bit more specific on how I cool it:
Fan at the bottom pulling cool air in (with a dust filter) and fan at the top blowing out.

Have Pics?

[PL1]

Fan at the bottom, fan at the top? That's how my cab is and runs cool.

+1 on this and working with the tendency of hot air to rise.

Fan on the bottom blowing cool air in.

Fan on the top blowing hot air out.

Make sure that there is enough vertical separation between the fans so that the hot air exiting from the top isn't pulled in by the lower fan.


Scott

EDIT: To reduce the amount of dust drawn in, use a dust filter like Kevin mentioned and place the lower fan ~6-8 inches above floor level.

[404]

i just picked up the same cab the other day and was thinking about this too. My best guess would be to expand the access hole at the top of the cab and place a vent or speaker grill of some kind like this one
http://www.twistedquarter.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=12&products_id=240

Heat tends to rise until it no longer has anywhere to go so placing something at the top would probably be your best bet. It may even be optimal to put a vent next to the power supply area. That's just above your pc motherboard and near your monitor so it may even expel some of the monitor heat.

a 6x9 vent can almost fit two 120mm fans side by side with a half inch overlap if you set both fans side by side. You can easily fit two 92mm fans with no problems whatsoever.

[Ginsu Victim]

My top fan has blue LEDs, so the vent projects blue bars on the wall behind the cab. Looks neat.

[Malenko]

just curious , is the PC decased?

Also would like to re-enforce a fan up top to help exhaust the hot air, and optionally a fan at the bottom to pull the cold air in.

EDIT: Added optional to bottom fan.

[pbj]

One fan at the top ought to do it.  Hot air rises, the fan will push it out, and cool air will come in naturally through all the leaky spots.

[brained]

just curious , is the PC decased?

Also would like to re-enforce a fan up top to help exhaust the hot air, and optionally a fan at the bottom to pull the cold air in.

EDIT: Added optional to bottom fan.

PC is decased and mounted in the control panel drawer shelf that my cab has.

[brained]

Fan at the bottom, fan at the top? That's how my cab is and runs cool.

I have a dynamo cab and to be a bit more specific on how I cool it:
Fan at the bottom pulling cool air in (with a dust filter) and fan at the top blowing out.

Pictures would be great.

[dcninja]

i threw a dell p4 in the case width wise in the bottom of my cab under the slide up dynamo board thing... no overheating issues... granted, I don't run a back on my cab.

[brained]

i threw a dell p4 in the case width wise in the bottom of my cab under the slide up dynamo board thing... no overheating issues... granted, I don't run a back on my cab.

I ditched the case... it didn't fit

[dcninja]

i have an hs9 what dynamo do u have