Akasa Eclipse 62's Club... Desktop & Machines.
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After looking through the whole thread again I feel really annoyed with my noctua's. I only went for them because they seemed to be quite quiet with good air flow and I didnt think the colour would bother me but seeing it inside my case is just awful. Looks like I might have to go back to my Black Akasa 17db's - cheap to, at £4. something lol 
<edit> Just thought I would show a pic of the front of my case with the door open, quite basic really:
Where would you put a Kama bay? at the top? or as low as possible with the DVDRW at the top ? (going to be removing one obviously)
<edit> Just thought I would show a pic of the front of my case with the door open, quite basic really:
Where would you put a Kama bay? at the top? or as low as possible with the DVDRW at the top ? (going to be removing one obviously)
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in the Eclipse...if you put the Kama bay at the top three solts then its too high to be blowing any cool air into the CPU area as its just about level with the PSU. Thats why I had my positioned at the bottom three slots. At this point at least half of the fan is blowing cool air directly to the CPU area. I'd assume the setup of the Mirage is basically the same. You can just about see what I mean from my picture posted above.
Quite like the look of the Mirage...first time Ive seen one with the door open.
Quite like the look of the Mirage...first time Ive seen one with the door open.
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I do understand what you mean, but due to a 120mm on the back and the 120mm on most PSU's exausting these days surely the air flow would be sucked down in the direction over the ram and towards the CPU anyway?
I have never liked my DVD drive at the top of the case as my PC is on the floor and its hard to see the eject button :/
I have never liked my DVD drive at the top of the case as my PC is on the floor and its hard to see the eject button :/
TBH I dont think it will make all that much difference. As long as you create some more airlow at the topr of the case where it is needed...it should still improve the cooloing performnace. When you do install one...try it with and without the air filter in just to see what the difference is like.
Nice rig Knat! SLi GTX's and a darn big Dell!TheKnat said:
Just a quick question - How do you find the Thermalright cooler... it is an Ultra 120 Extreme is it not?
I've just ordered one and was wondering if you'd used another type of cooler before it and seen any improvement?
They're receiving good reviews as far as i can see - just wanted to ask a real day to day user!
Thanks in advance!
gt
gt_junkie said:Nice rig Knat! SLi GTX's and a darn big Dell!
Just a quick question - How do you find the Thermalright cooler... it is an Ultra 120 Extreme is it not?
I've just ordered one and was wondering if you'd used another type of cooler before it and seen any improvement?
They're receiving good reviews as far as i can see - just wanted to ask a real day to day user!
Thanks in advance!
gt
Yeah its the Ultra 120 Extreme (actually my second one because I left the backplate of it stuck to an RMA'd motherboard) and it seems to be really good. I had an AC Freezer 7 Pro on my old computer and it seemed to do the job but I'm impressed with the Thermalright as it keeps my QX6800 down to 40C.
The only thing which annoyed me was having to get my own fan for it. Only because I bought a really ugly one and now I need to get a different one instead
fobose said:Right just took this pic:
Those noctua's... YUK they could have made'em black!!!
I dont think those Noctua's look to bad, very tidy setup, like the way you have tidied yer cables.
In fact the colour of yer Noctua's go with the colour of yer board
Nice temps Knat!TheKnat said:Yeah its the Ultra 120 Extreme (actually my second one because I left the backplate of it stuck to an RMA'd motherboard) and it seems to be really good. I had an AC Freezer 7 Pro on my old computer and it seemed to do the job but I'm impressed with the Thermalright as it keeps my QX6800 down to 40C.
The only thing which annoyed me was having to get my own fan for it. Only because I bought a really ugly one and now I need to get a different one instead
Thanks for the reply.
My Extreme arrived today! Looks V nice!
Gonna get a quad in a month or two so i'll let you know how i get on!
gt
gt_junkie said:Nice temps Knat!
Thanks for the reply.
My Extreme arrived today! Looks V nice!
Gonna get a quad in a month or two so i'll let you know how i get on!
gt
Cool hope it works well for you. The only downside I can see with it is that the quads kick out a boat load of heat so the fans are quite high all the time. I'm going to proberly end up water cooling it so I can leave it running overnight and not be kept awake
Right, I have made a few changes to my Mirage, firstly I have replaced the rear noctua with the original BLACK akasa 17db fan I had there, which looks 100x better IMO, and I have also added a kama bay aswell as tidied the cables a little bit more, so here are some pics:
<edit> However I keep meaning to do something with the sata cable as they are kinda in your face.
<edit> However I keep meaning to do something with the sata cable as they are kinda in your face.
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