Airflow

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What's you guys airflow setups?

Need some help, this is the part I hate most about making a system :p

I have a 120mm on the from pushing toward mobo
80mm in the side pushing at the mobo
2x 80mm at the back exhasting it all.

terrible temps.. 46°C m/b Idle with nothing but HDD/DVD-ROM/DVD+RW/Videocard and the obvious cpu & mobo :p

CPU is 45°C too default settings but also stock heatsink/paste.

Specs:
Asus A8N32 Deluxe
AMD 64 3700+
1GB DDR
ATI X1800 XT 256MB GDDR
250GB Sata hdd
Samsung DVD-ROM
Samsung DVD-RW 16/16 DL

help? :p
 
I think that cpu temperature is about normal for the standard cooler and paste.

If you want a cooler cpu you need to get something like the Arctic Silver Freezer 64 Pro and some Arctic Silver 5 thermal paste.

I have the same motherboard and have been having the same problems as you in a Coolermaster Stacker case. After some considered buying I now use:

2x 120mm fans at the front blowing in
1x 80mm fan on the side blowing in
1x Coolermaster crossflow fan blowing across the motherboard
1x 80mm fan on top blowing out
2x 80mm fans blowing out on the bottom of the case
1x exhaust just below the cpu
1x 120mm fan blowing out parallel to the cpu.

Stock temperatures are now 36 for the motherboard and 40 for the cpu.

The biggest difference for me was the crossflow fan, did a fantastic job of moving the air across the motherboard.


Cable tidying is also very important, if you haven't already move all the cables you can to the edges of the case out of the way and cable tie the remaining cables so they aren't impeding airflow as much.

Good luck!
 
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TheBigCheese said:
2x 120mm fans at the front blowing in
1x 80mm fan on the side blowing in
1x Coolermaster crossflow fan blowing across the motherboard
1x 80mm fan on top blowing out
2x 80mm fans blowing out on the bottom of the case
1x exhaust just below the cpu
1x 120mm fan blowing out parallel to the cpu.
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:eek: That must sound like a wind tunnel :eek:

I have a 120mm intake and 120mm exhaust on my Antec P160 (added the intake yesterday) and the cooling is fine. I haven't actually seen temps change for the addition of the new fan either. I have an X2 3800 @ 2500 and fully loaded, it's currently at 46C.

@ OP ... if you want to lower your temps, just get a better heatsink. Something like the Scythe Mine or Ninja would be great.
 
TheBigCheese said:
I think that cpu temperature is about normal for the standard cooler and paste.

If you want a cooler cpu you need to get something like the Arctic Silver Freezer 64 Pro and some Arctic Silver 5 thermal paste.

I have the same motherboard and have been having the same problems as you in a Coolermaster Stacker case. After some considered buying I now use:

2x 120mm fans at the front blowing in
1x 80mm fan on the side blowing in
1x Coolermaster crossflow fan blowing across the motherboard
1x 80mm fan on top blowing out
2x 80mm fans blowing out on the bottom of the case
1x exhaust just below the cpu
1x 120mm fan blowing out parallel to the cpu.

Stock temperatures are now 36 for the motherboard and 40 for the cpu.

The biggest difference for me was the crossflow fan, did a fantastic job of moving the air across the motherboard.


Cable tidying is also very important, if you haven't already move all the cables you can to the edges of the case out of the way and cable tie the remaining cables so they aren't impeding airflow as much.

Good luck!
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Thats a wind farm you got there !!

Some other usefull applications for your stacker.
Would be good for drying your togs after coming from the swimming pool, and could keep a few tinnies cool as well :)
 
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:cool: Hi all,

I use as follows,

x1-140mm fan on front as intake.
x2-92mm fans on side as intakes.
x1-80mm fan on top blowing out.
x1-120mm fan on back blowing out.

Cpu Temp is 38c and M/B is 35c at mo, but my room temp is 27c due 2 this heat wave. ;)
 
I have AS5 paste hanging about, going to apply some of that in a bit.


Right now cleaning my P4 3.0GHz box, All fans where intake! How the fudge that happened I don't know.

Had about an inch of dust everywhere... lol.

I want to look into water cooling, but not enough confidence.. :\
 
Lol I was waiting for the wind tunnel jokes, well done A.N. for getting in there first ;)

Actually it is fine as all the fans (except the 2x Coolermaster 120mm which are whisper quiet anyway) are on a fan controller so I can make them virtually silent.

I know I have gone over the top with fans but hey I found it a bit of fun! I now have a green glow from the back of the case and a blue glow from the top :D (little things).

I had a nasty experience with an overheating motherboard the other day which resulted in a new board so I thought I'd remedy the situation. I do a lot of video encoding and RAW image processing day in day out so I have to have something that is stable constantly, especially if I leave it for two hours to encode a video. In that situation I can now just crank all the fans up to full, wander off and come back later content in the knowledge it is still only around 8 degrees higher than the room temperature...there is no price on peace of mind! (or time saved on having to do it again).

I was considering Delta fans...now THAT would have been like a wind tunnel... :eek:
 
1x120mm intake (bottom front)
1x92mm intake (on perspex window)
1x120mm Rear exhaust
2x80mm top vent (running at half voltage)
3x80mm PSU exhaust

Arctic Cooling NV5 Silencer (sort of exhaust I guess?)
Custom Northbridge Cooler (5000rpm running @ 2500rpm)
Thermaltake Silent Tower (92mm@3000rpm)

my project log

Cpu: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz (P4 2.8c Northwood)
Cpu Speed: 3.5GHZ
Vcore: 1.45 (stock setting)
Cooling: Thermaltake Silent Tower
Room Temp: 27°C
Idle Temp: 33°C - 35°C
Loaded Temp: 40°C - 42°C
 
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Lan Li V2000

Top
2x120mm Akasa Amber blowing thro top.
1x120mm Yate Loon Exaust @ 7v
1x80mm Fan on 7900GT power Regs

Bottom
1x120mm Yate Loon @ 7v intake
6x120mm yate loons on 120.3 Rad blowing on HDD cage
1x120mm Yate blowing thro HDD cage
PSU 120mm Acts As Exaust.
 
P180 with a 120mm GLobe fan front intake and a 120mm Globe rear exhaust.

Fitted my X1800XT and 4000+ with a thermalright XP90 + panaflo 92mm yesterday, and got idle temps of 41 on the cpu with my room temp being 29, not too shabby :)
 
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