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| fastredpacman:
I saw this article on pc cooling and thought Id get your opinions on it. Here is the article: http://www.techtastic.ca/articles/aircase.html Is that diagram acurate? Just wanna know because Im building this monster computer with all the roms from almost every emulator and I wanna make sure its cool. |
| krick:
Yep. The general idea is bring in cool air at the bottom with an intake fan and exhaust hot air at the top of the case using the power supply fan and possibly an additional exhaust fan. I think the top mounted "blowhole" fan is overkill in most situations. There are interesting variations. One idea is to use a ducting tube to bring cool air from the outside and deposit it directly onto the CPU heatsink fan with the fan oriented to blow downward on the heatsink. But in general, if you have a good intake fan at the bottom and exhaust fan (i.e. power supply fan) at the top, you should be good as far as case flow goes. |
| cdbrown:
Alot of cases also have an intake on the side panel to blow fresh air over the sound and graphics card and just provide another source of air |
| patrickl:
--- Quote from: cdbrown on September 27, 2004, 02:13:35 am ---Alot of cases also have an intake on the side panel to blow fresh air over the sound and graphics card and just provide another source of air --- End quote --- I just got a new PC with a hole in the side as well. There is a duct on the CPU that blows the heat from the CPU fan straight out the side. |
| daywane:
My newest Pc I have just built has exhaust fan on the clear side , also exhaust from the power supply, intake from bttm front. I have never seen exhaust on the top. not saying there not out there, I just have never run into one yet. |
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