unless we're getting into passive cooling
Yes . . . lets get into "Passive" cooling shall we? . . . or do you deem no one should have that option?
Heat doesn't rise if you blow it some other direction with fans!
And why bother blowing it in another direction if it will "rise" and be "pulled" unobstructed straight out the blow-hole/chimney in the top of the case? . . .
Why bother?
the PSU may be sucking in dusty air from a cabinet base or the floor, or not much of anything if it's on carpet.
This assumes the cool PSU sitting in the coolest part of the case actually spins its internal fan beyond a sedate amount of rpms? . . . this assumes we all have dusty floors? or that the case doesn't have a dust filter? . . . This also assumes the case even has a vent in the bottom? . . . for the record the Thermally advantaged cases I use do not have a bottom fan intake hole and all the air comes from one or two "filtered" 120mm intake fans at the front of the case . . . the PSU faces downwards and sits on a shelf about an inche from the solid floor of the case and draws what little air it needs directly from the cool filtered air coming from the front 120mm fan . . .
the PSU making no contribution to case exhaust you need to replace that somehow
Why? . . . the PSU is not meant to be a case exhaust fan? and I personally would prefer it made as little contribution to case exhaustion as possible? . . . I find slight positive pressure works well, two quiet "filtered" 120mm fans pushing in and a top quiet 140mm blow-hole/chimney fan pulling out . . . quiet, simple, effective . . .
Depending on the case/mobo/PSU you may also need extension cables to wire it up.
Heh your really grasping at straws now!
There really is naff all in it - no significant 'thermal advantage' either way
There really is, you just haven't discovered it yet therefore you conclude it doesn't exist! . . . . and is probably the reason why you have several 120mm fans and a water cooling system trying to keep the components housed in your
old-hat non-thermally advantaged chassis cool!
Its very simple if you "Think" about it . . . there is no good reason for a PSU to be sitting at the top of a case?, no good reason at all? . . it gets hotter, it obstructs the heat that wants to rise? . . it has to increase its internal fans rpms to keep its internals cool and will be more stressed in general due to running hotter . . . if you think a hotter running PSU will last longer than a cooler running PSU then you need to think again . . .
So the PSU is better placed at the bottom of the case, (sorry you can't do that with your Xigmatek Asgard) and exhaust fans are more naturally placed in the path that the heat will travel to (sorry you can't do that with your Xigmatek Asgard) . . . ultimately with these concepts in mind and a suitably "modern" chassis design this means one could run a fairly powerful system with just two fans . . . the first quietly sucking air in through a (filtered) intake and the second fan extracting the warm air that "Rises" through the chimney . . .
I just think the blowing of your 'thermally advantaged' trumpet is a little ill-founded and misleading is all.
Well firstly this Thermally-Advantaged concept has nothing to do with me, I'm just aware of it and mention it to other people as being a preferable design over the
old-hat design . . . you really have demonstrated no good argument why we should all use a design from 20 years ago when the modern design makes more sense to anyone who can "think"
I would say your defending your purchase more than "thinking" about what is more suitable for new buyers wanting a modern computer . . .
You're right - that would be terrible. That's why my H50 intakes (standard), front fan also intakes, and my PSU and side fans exhaust. It works. In fact the case runs slightly cooler with the be-fanned side fitted than with the case side off altogether! Hardly a 'noisy wind tunnel' with 3 120mm case fans in total
I see, so your drawing in air to your radiator from the rear of the computer? the same place that most graphics cards dump the heat? the same place that most PSU's dump their heat, very clever!
. . . I don't know why your even using a £50 water-cooling kit? and I don't know why you have two case panel fans pulling the air out that should be moving towards the graphics card and moving towards the CPU socket area? . . . sounds like you really don't understand airflow contention or how to design an elegant cooling set-up?
the old 'heat-rises' adage does not apply if you're blowing the air around with fans at a much greater velocity than it would be naturally rising due to convection, which in a modern PC case you are. You wont get heat transfer upwards if the air in question is replaced sidewards before it's gotten anywhere.
There is no good reason why anyone would want to interfere with nature and create a "greater velocity" of air to move the heat in another direction
. . . its just utter nonsense? . . .
Ideally one should bring air in from what is generally the coolest part of the case environment (the front) and front low is even better, then the air and heat will "rise" past the GPU and past the CPU/PWM straight out the large roof fan, its simple, its elegant, its quiet and it works well? . . .
The trick to simple and effective case cooling is to work out the path of airflow and create as little Obstruction or Contention as possible, once these "Basic" principles are learn you will never buy a non-thermally advantaged chassis again . . . its all very simple if you actually take the time to "think" about it!
You got a lot to learn Liampope . . . keep it up and you will get there eventually!
Avoid this case or any other non Thermally advantaged case if you can afford a few pound extra!
Xigmatek Asgard
£28.99 inc
. It's really just a personal taste thing - get what fits the budget and looks good.
