Antec 900 case fans/filters help

Monkey Magic · 15 Aug 2007 at 08:13

Can anyone please advise me, on which fans to place in my two extra fan places. Or advise me not to put them in because the would be no difference.
I would also be greatful if someone could tell me if they have fitted fan filters? If so which ones? Already i am seeing dust gathering near the fans and i have only had the case a week.

truebluecfc · 15 Aug 2007 at 10:33

Yeh my Antec 900 is a complete dust magnet aswell, still wouldnt swap it for anything in its price range though.

iMacMart · 15 Aug 2007 at 11:03

truebluecfc said:
Yeh my Antec 900 is a complete dust magnet aswell, still wouldnt swap it for anything in its price range though.

Same here, maybe some black ladies tights over the front intakes to hold the dust back

Someone said it on here before?

Monkey Magic · 15 Aug 2007 at 11:06

tweakinfreak said:
Same here, maybe some black ladies tights over the front intakes to hold the dust back

Any personal favorite brands?

iMacMart · 15 Aug 2007 at 11:21

Pretty polly? lol

I'd ask the missus

Monkey Magic · 15 Aug 2007 at 11:41

I read somwhere else that someone has used AC Ryan filters. Not a clue where they put them tbh.
Has anyone fitted the other two extra fans slots? if so what fans and was tere much in the way of temp drop?

Garyj881 · 15 Aug 2007 at 11:57

Ok i have an antec and i don't have a problem with dust, but my case is on top of my desk not on the floor

I have all the fans on low, with the 250mm on mid and ive added a 120mm on the side for the graphics card.

The extra 120mm on the side panel did'nt affect my temps that much, just keeps the gfx card cooler.

What about THESE

truebluecfc · 15 Aug 2007 at 12:30

Garyj881 said:
Ok i have an antec and i don't have a problem with dust, but my case is on top of my desk not on the floor

I have all the fans on low, with the 250mm on mid and ive added a 120mm on the side for the graphics card.

The extra 120mm on the side panel did'nt affect my temps that much, just keeps the gfx card cooler.

What about THESE

Yeh I've dont the same about adding a fan on the side cooling the gfx, and im gonna buy a few of those dust filters me thinks.

bowza · 19 Aug 2007 at 10:00

I have used Kitchen extractor carbon sheets from food stores to good success in the past, prevents a lot of dust and easy to clean out every few months,
Can be cut to any size u need.

Bowza

oh and its a nice shade of Black

PhillyDee · 19 Aug 2007 at 11:25

Never put the fan in the side panel, but thats because my Tuniq prevents it without starting to modify the fan (Which i cant be bothered to do). And the internal fan holder just seems pointless to me.

MumboJumbo · 19 Aug 2007 at 12:40

Garyj881 said:
Ok i have an antec and i don't have a problem with dust, but my case is on top of my desk not on the floor

I have all the fans on low, with the 250mm on mid and ive added a 120mm on the side for the graphics card.

The extra 120mm on the side panel did'nt affect my temps that much, just keeps the gfx card cooler.

What about THESE

Ive seen mesh ones as well which might be better.

Althulas · 28 Aug 2007 at 19:33

I was going to put speaker cabinet cloth on mine, like the idea of the kitchen filters though. I replaced my HD caged fans with 3pin antec blue tri cool and used the black fan blades off the originals on them so I can connect my fans to a Hardcano13 controller. I use a fan in the window, rear but not able to used the internal one due to the size of the 8800 GTX. a Zalman 9700 cools the cpu, with all fans on low OC E6400@ 3.6g gives idle temp after use 28-32C and <45C with a 4 hour stint of ARMA and 65-68C under Ortha 20 minute stress.