One of my mates is running a g80 sli rig and to get more airflow to his cards and get rid of the drive vibration he is thinking of removing the raptors from the hd bay on his Eclipse (and possibly remove the HD bay itself) and relocating the drives to the 5.25" bays.
He has 3 choices I think.
Which is better.
1. He could actively cool these drives with say a Scythe Kama Bay cooler and mount them with some nexus drive mounts to dampen vibration. The Kama Bay means he is left with only one optical though.
2. He could purchase a couple of expensive smardrive 2002C's and mount the drives in them. They are supposed to be about the best drive coolers/noise isolators around but obviously with no active cooling temps might be a problem with 2 of them mounted on top of each other.
3. I told him he would be better of getting the akasa side panel with fan for his gpu's, and leaving both his drives as is but separate them a little bit so the front fan can get air into the case. And to get rid of the vibration - he should mount the raptors with rubber grommetts through the circular holes on the side of the drive bay. I know some people on these forums have used grommetts big enough so they can insert them into the circular hole in drive cage so the grommet is making contact with the drive.
Would these nexus ones do the job or do I need something wider like the silentx kit which I can't find anywhere :
Any advice appreciated
He has 3 choices I think.
Which is better.
1. He could actively cool these drives with say a Scythe Kama Bay cooler and mount them with some nexus drive mounts to dampen vibration. The Kama Bay means he is left with only one optical though.
2. He could purchase a couple of expensive smardrive 2002C's and mount the drives in them. They are supposed to be about the best drive coolers/noise isolators around but obviously with no active cooling temps might be a problem with 2 of them mounted on top of each other.
3. I told him he would be better of getting the akasa side panel with fan for his gpu's, and leaving both his drives as is but separate them a little bit so the front fan can get air into the case. And to get rid of the vibration - he should mount the raptors with rubber grommetts through the circular holes on the side of the drive bay. I know some people on these forums have used grommetts big enough so they can insert them into the circular hole in drive cage so the grommet is making contact with the drive.
Would these nexus ones do the job or do I need something wider like the silentx kit which I can't find anywhere :
Any advice appreciated
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with no obstruction for the front 120mm fan, gives much better cooling.
