Antec sff case and intel core duo

ElectroBlaster · 28 Nov 2006 at 20:40

Hi guys

Ok I have an antec nsk1300 coming in the post, had some fun n games the last two weeks trying to get a decent case thats not damaged, anyway I chose antecs aria style case (the new one without card reader) and I want to fit an matx board and an intel d820. Now the thing is im not to good at sussing out cooling so will I have to do some mods before I even bother to build it? I heard these duo-cores run hot and now I have reallised the stock intel cooler may not fit... talk about fun n games lol

WJA96 · 29 Nov 2006 at 22:07

The stock cooler will very definitely fit, but I wouldn't put an 820 in one of those unless they've improved the cooling over the old Aria. The 8x0's are the hottest of the hot and they need proper cooling.

There is only one fan, the one in the PSU and that doesn't move a lot of air.

ElectroBlaster · 30 Nov 2006 at 18:13

I was going to mod a some blow holes in the side of the panels, im hoping this will work

Tute · 30 Nov 2006 at 19:07

The Aria's cooling was shocking, so unless they've sorted that out i'd go with something low powered.

WJA96 · 1 Dec 2006 at 06:18

ElectroBlaster said:
Now the thing is im not to good at sussing out cooling so will I have to do some mods before I even bother to build it?

The easiest thing would be to put a 120mm fan in each side wall at the back of the case. Running at 5V they would be quite quiet and cooling would just cease to be an issue. I'm pretty sure I've seen this done somewhere.

ElectroBlaster · 1 Dec 2006 at 10:48

WJA96 said:
The easiest thing would be to put a 120mm fan in each side wall at the back of the case. Running at 5V they would be quite quiet and cooling would just cease to be an issue. I'm pretty sure I've seen this done somewhere.

Thats an excellent idea, I was only going to mod one panel but reading all the reviews has changed my mind. The only issue im worried about is dust, would adding some mesh or filters cause any drop in cooling?

Antec are supposed to have excellent customer support, I wonder if they would sell me a couple spare panels incase I fudge it up lol

PieMaster · 1 Dec 2006 at 22:43

I've cut a blowhole in each side of my origional aria case, with a 92mm Akasa amber @ ~7v on each.

Took about 20 degrees off the CPU temperature (X2 4400, Zalman 7000CU) which should be fine for a C2D

p4radox · 2 Dec 2006 at 12:17

I found that just simply cutting an 80mm blowhole was enough to drop my load temps by about 9 degrees. Overclocked Opteron now sits at about 44 under load.