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TOK:

--- Quote from: bkenobi on June 30, 2011, 11:15:05 am ---That'll be $50,000.  Who should I send the bill to?   :laugh2:

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Maybe someone who lived in the 1500's? I don't know who else doesn't already know fans cool things.  :dizzy:




TOK:

--- Quote from: pinballjim on June 30, 2011, 12:56:55 pm ---Uhm, fans don't actually cool anything.

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boardjunkie:
Hah....right. The fan itself don't cool things, the air it moves does. I guess you could say it indirectly cools components.

But....its a stupid idea to use a fan in your game cabs so don't bother... >:D

SavannahLion:

--- Quote from: Vigo on June 30, 2011, 11:44:05 am ---
--- Quote from: bkenobi on June 30, 2011, 11:15:05 am ---Some fans blow some suck.

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Not to be nitpicky, but don't all fans suck and blow at the same time? I get that some fans are designed to blow, and some were born to suck, but to get things flowing, a fan has to always suck from one end and blow on the other end. It's just kinda basic physics.

OK, this post is sounding very, very wrong. I better stop right now.  :angel:

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In a general sense yes, but there is some physics and installation considerations that govern this frame of logic. Namely, that air is lazy as it moves about.  In other words, it's possible to screw yourself if you install a CPU fan backwards.


--- Quote from: TOK on June 30, 2011, 01:32:44 pm ---
--- Quote from: pinballjim on June 30, 2011, 12:56:55 pm ---Uhm, fans don't actually cool anything.

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Fans actually add heat, its the "wind chill factor" that does the actual cooling. Admittedly the heat a fan adds is microscopic when you're talking the temperatures found in a PC.

FrizzleFried:

--- Quote from: Donkbaca on June 29, 2011, 12:01:54 am ---I've never seen a pc or other electronic device that blows air in, they all exhaust. But people over build their mame cabs all the time

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Dunno what PC's you're looking at but just about every PC I've ever built (as I don't buy pre-boxed crap) has one or more spots up at the front bottom of the case to put a fan or two to suck air in and blow over the hard drives...

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