Advice for cooling down system

Mr Fujisawa · 22 Feb 2010 at 11:42

I've just installed new gear in my antec P180 case. the case has 1 intake fan, 1 top exhaust fan, and I have the corsair h50 exhausting using push/pull. All fans are now apache blacks.

The system is quite hot though, gtx 280 in there and shortly a gts 250 will be going in for physc and the cpu is running quite hot on load.

My question is, what else can I do to cool things down? i cant fit another intake fan in, unless maybe i stack another apache black next to the current one? or is there a thicker fan (>25mm) i could put there. I only have 1 spare 5¼ drive bay, is there a row of small fans i could use to intake there? What about mounting some fans inside the case? how do people mount 120mm fans within the case, or what about some of these?

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=SY-000-AN&groupid=701&catid=57&subcat=399

A lot of questions but i'm sure most of you will have some ideas.

thanks!

cjbagnall · 22 Feb 2010 at 11:48

You could try switching the H50 to intake cold air instead of exhausting, thats what I did and it worked for me.

Mr Fujisawa · 22 Feb 2010 at 11:53

cjbagnall said:
You could try switching the H50 to intake cold air instead of exhausting, thats what I did and it worked for me.

Ideally I would rather not because of dust and making the rest of the system even hotter. what would I do with the other 2 fans?

miniyazz · 22 Feb 2010 at 11:55

There's probably space for another intake fan at the front (I have the p182 with three front intakes, push-pull intake at the rear

and one

exhausting hot at the top. Totally unbalanced but temps aren't too bad.)

Mr Fujisawa · 22 Feb 2010 at 12:03

miniyazz said:
There's probably space for another intake fan at the front (I have the p182 with three front intakes, push-pull intake at the rear and one exhausting hot at the top. Totally unbalanced but temps aren't too bad.)

Don't think there is, theres only the one right at the bottom for the enclosed hard drive/psu bit, but i've had to remove the fan that used to be inbetween. so you're saying maybe keep the front one intaking, change the rear to intaking, and keep the top one exhausting? would want a dust filter on the back i think

miniyazz · 22 Feb 2010 at 12:28

On mine there's a space for an intake in front of the middle HDD bay (with dust filter), as well as the one right at the bottom.
Well I'm not saying it's necessarily the best solution, but it works for me at least

Mr Fujisawa · 22 Feb 2010 at 12:29

miniyazz said:
On mine there's a space for an intake in front of the middle HDD bay (with dust filter), as well as the one right at the bottom.
Well I'm not saying it's necessarily the best solution, but it works for me at least

thanks, might give it a go