Subject: RE: OT: case fans
From: Larry Collier (larry@medease.com)
Date: Fri Dec 28 2001 - 12:11:38 AKST
Concur, but make sure the fan blowing in has sufficient air inlets through
the plastic front. It's amazing how many cases don't. If there aren't
enough cooling will be less and if the front is well sealed the fan blades
will start to cavitate and that is really noisy.
Larry
> -----Original Message-----
> From: aklug-bounce@aklug.org [mailto:aklug-bounce@aklug.org]On Behalf Of
> Mike Tibor
> Sent: Friday, December 28, 2001 10:54 AM
> To: aklug@aklug.org
> Subject: Re: OT: case fans
>
>
>
> On Fri, 28 Dec 2001, Bryan Medsker wrote:
>
> > Also, if the power supply fan is blowing out of the case, doesn't
> > it make sense for the secondary fan to be blowing into the case?
> > Or is there a situation where it makes sense for both to be blowing
> > out?
>
> I can't think of any case I've ever seen where it would be a good thing to
> have all fans trying to exhaust air out of the case. All this would do is
> create a vacuum in the case, with little or no airflow. You generally want
> intake and exhaust air to be equal in volume. For example, with the power
> supply fan exhausting hot air out of the case, installing a secondary fan
> at the lower front (for most cases anyhow) to pull air into the case would
> be very helpful.
>
> http://www.overclockers.com/ is a great resource for all things related to
> cooling. Regardless of your opinion on overclocking, the site has a huge
> amount of information on effective cooling methods that range from mundane
> (adding a secondary case fan) to the truly wacky (evaporative cooling
> tower).
>
> Mike
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