Fan Shroud/Ducting Mods

tankskun · 29 Jan 2010 at 21:35

Anyone done any cool Fan Shroud/Ducting Mods? Post some pics here to share.

Be particulary interested if anyone has done something to the megahalem cooler.

Come on show your mods, heres mines

lol

JonJ678 · 30 Jan 2010 at 02:43

PVC tape is brilliant. Did you put a matching piece over the other end of the fins, or leave it open to let air escape onto the motherboard?

Closest thing I've done is this

Features two fans with the middles removed and cleaned up using a very hot stanley knife, cable ties holding the structure together and currently electrical tape around all the potential gaps. It works very well, and it's pleasingly eccentric to put a radiator either side of a fan rather than fans either side of the radiator.

tankskun · 30 Jan 2010 at 03:23

Well at the moment the other end is normal. But I have an idea which I will post up soon.

Liking your shroud! looks crazy :cool:

Cant even see the cable ties.

mit1 · 30 Jan 2010 at 09:55

Like first pic............had never thought of doing that, now where are my spare fans.

the-tazs · 2 Feb 2010 at 14:06

HI just done that with my h50 on the intake side

Alex R · 2 Feb 2010 at 15:25

the-tazs said:
HI just done that with my h50 on the intake side

Sorry, I can't quite see what you've done? There's a shroud over the rear fan? I don't really understand why? Doesn't the fan sit flusjh with the back of the case and the radiator?

wingnuttzz · 2 Feb 2010 at 16:38

the airflow on the h50 is coming into the case, and the idea of using a shroud on fan on the case side is that it allows for cleaner, more equally spread airflow over the radiator i'm sure, and its meant to lower the noise abit.

BIGBC · 2 Feb 2010 at 17:08

That is genuinly odd the-tazs.

Alex R · 2 Feb 2010 at 17:08

Right, I just thought the fan was already flush witht he case and the rad. I'll check when I get back home. In any event I'm pretty sure I binned the packaging that came with it 9looks like the "shroud" was part of that?)

the-tazs · 2 Feb 2010 at 19:30

Might be odd but take a look at my temp, room temp at 23c see what you think?

Alex R · 3 Feb 2010 at 09:43

Pretty impressive temps there. I might have to have a go at doing something similar. I'm getting 60c max using the same test on my Q6600 @3.6 with a vid of 1.45 with an unshrouded H50-1 in push/pull into the case. Is the q6600 hotter?

eddyc · 3 Feb 2010 at 10:47

I would love to do something along these lines.

I was thinking of building a duct with some plastic tubing from a hole in the front of my case straight to the push fan on my cpu cooler. Do you guys think it would be worth it?