Subject: Re: OT: case fans
From: EnderAK (enderak@yahoo.com)
Date: Fri Dec 28 2001 - 12:07:56 AKST
Yes, I know on mine I just took a drill and drilled the inlet holes out to
about twice as big as normal. The better quality cases seem to take this
factor into account better than the cheapo cases.
Justin
enderak@yahoo.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Larry Collier" <larry@medease.com>
To: <aklug@aklug.org>
Sent: Friday, December 28, 2001 12:11 PM
Subject: RE: OT: case fans
>
> 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
> > --
> > Mike Tibor Univ. of Alaska Anchorage (907) 786-1001 voice
> > Network Technician Consortium Library (907) 786-6050 fax
> > tibor@lib.uaa.alaska.edu http://www.lib.uaa.alaska.edu/~tibor/
> > http://www.lib.uaa.alaska.edu/~tibor/pgpkey for PGP public key
> >
> >
>
>
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