Antec 182 replacement

Pilgrim57 · 12 Sep 2010 at 13:11

Hi - Have an overclocked Q9550 & 260 [dual slot cooler which exhausts out of case]. The lower chamber now only has a scythe slipstream slimline 1200 rpm, about 24cfm as had to remove tricool fan to fit new Corsair 850W modular psu 180mm long!
Cpu temp up to 71C & 4 x HDD drives hitting 39-40C at times.
Room reaches 25C at times in Summer. today 21.5 & inside case is nearly 32C. Only 1 intake fan Scythe 68cfm which struggles against dustfilter.
2 extractors can't to pull any more air from case.
Have considered Fractal R3, Corsair 700D & 600.
Dust filters are v. important & don't want large noise increase to get better cooling.

Suggestions please

Thanks.

[TW]Sponge · 19 Sep 2010 at 10:13

antec 902

cant go wrong

Randomface74 · 19 Sep 2010 at 11:44

I don't think your case is to blame here - something in your system is running too hot.

liquidex · 19 Sep 2010 at 18:16

Try removing the slatted doors infront of the air filters as that knocks a few degrees off. The main culprit is the 260 as when I installed mine I found temps jumped up a few degrees in both chambers as they produce a lot of heat.

Another thing to do is to remove the top fan and just leave it as an intake air vent. Tried loads of different fan configurations and I found this to work best for me as the P182 primarily struggles with intaking clean air to the upper chamber.

For the lower chamber unless you are running something like WD Blacks that run hot the single 120mm fan should easily cool them. I've taped up the vent holes at the back around the PSU so it has to draw air from the front and I find that cools my two HDDs fine.

EniGmA1981 · 6 Oct 2010 at 06:27

I know the thread's a little bit old but I had a similar issue with heat in the upper chamber and I remedied it with one of these:

http://www.scythe-usa.com/product/acc/008/sckb1000_detail.html

Obviously it depends how many optical drives you're running but if, like me, you're only running one, then this - obviously with a fan mounted inside (I've got a scythe AD1212DS) that'll draw more cool air into the top chamber and it'll be aimed right at your cpu which is where you want it ideally isn't it -that particular fan is pretty quiet too so that's a bonus :cool:

Obviously I don't have the same setup as you, the 260 does get a lot hotter than my 4770 but it's an inexpensive solution and probably worth a try