Antec P180 - fans/best cooling

gooner_47 · 16 Aug 2006 at 00:35

Basically, what's the best way to have the fans set up?

I'm gonna be using Akasa ambers so should be nice and quiet anyway.

Do I need the fan in the bottom chamber or will the PSU pull enough air through?

Should I mount the hd's in the bottom chamber or in the top section?

Should I have 2 exhaust fans, and 1 intake... 1 exhaust fan, 1 intake..... 2 exhaust fans, 0 intake...... 1 exhaust fan, 0 intake........ ???

i could go on

lol

dante6491 · 16 Aug 2006 at 00:44

2 intake, 2 exhaust. i have the same case, orgional fans plus an amber infront of the top 3.5" drive.

i jsut have one harddrive in each chamber keep the heat sperate, doesnt resonate etc.

Messiah Khan · 16 Aug 2006 at 08:51

I have mine set up with 4harddrives in the bottom chamber, with the bottom chamber fan sucking air in on medium. The back and top fans are both blowing out on low setting.

samcat · 16 Aug 2006 at 08:55

2 exhausts in upper chamber, one amber and one nexus (was testing how quiet it was, will be replacing all the ambers with them soon). And the X1900 blows out the back too.

PSU is the exhaust in the lower chamber.

HDD's are all located in the upper chamber, 3 of them (2 raptors 34gb and 1 maxtor 350gb)

Temperatures are good.

Sam C

gooner_47 · 16 Aug 2006 at 11:02

nice, thanks for the input

anyone else?

Azza · 16 Aug 2006 at 13:45

I have an Akasa Amber as a back exhaust, and another in the lower chamber. The top exhaust is the thick stock fan that came with the case which is on high. And i have another of the stock fans in the middle intake part on high. My hard drive is in a CoolerMaster Drive 6 (it came free with my PSU).

So i have 2 intakes and 2 exhausts, pretty quite becuase i have music on or im playing a game etc. At night if i leave it on to download stuff, i put the too stock fans on low.

alexakasloth · 16 Aug 2006 at 13:50

You may be able to get away with 1 intake and 1 exhaust so I would try that first. Having said that I haven't owned that case but it's worth a shot if it means lower noise

gooner_47 · 16 Aug 2006 at 15:27

samcat said:
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2 exhausts in upper chamber, one amber and one nexus (was testing how quiet it was, will be replacing all the ambers with them soon). And the X1900 blows out the back too.

PSU is the exhaust in the lower chamber.

HDD's are all located in the upper chamber, 3 of them (2 raptors 34gb and 1 maxtor 350gb)

Temperatures are good.

Sam C

what's the temperature of the raptors? do you think it'd be higher if you had them mounted in the bottom section without the fan

GOB14 · 17 Aug 2006 at 15:44

i only use the two regular fans ,one as top exhaust n other in front of upper harddrive cage which houses a wd raptor n lower has 200gb seagate. tried both in lower cage but raptor got very hot. cpu never goes over 44(x2 3800) overclocked by 400mhz

Messiah Khan · 17 Aug 2006 at 15:45

I have 4 harddrives in the bottom cage including a raptor, with the center fan on medium and the temps are about 35-40 which is fine as far as im concerned.

samcat · 17 Aug 2006 at 15:55

gooner_47 said:
what's the temperature of the raptors? do you think it'd be
higher if you had them mounted in the bottom section without the fan

After a 2hr defrag (they are one stripped drive) they were showing as 44oC surface temperature.

Cheers,
Sam C

gooner_47 · 17 Aug 2006 at 17:25

cheers people