Extra cooling for my XaserIII?

avrc · 11 Jun 2007 at 11:03

Currently have a Thermaltake Xaser III supertower - black coating on steel.

It has:

2x 80mm fans at the front bottom of the case sucking air in (I have my HDD in the middle of the flow of one fan).
1x 80mm fan at the top of the base blowing air out.
2x 80mm fans at the side rear sucking air in (same height as gfx card and CPU)
2x 80mm fans at the back middle blowing air out.

My machine is sat on my desk in front of the window, only half of the machine is above the window sill.

The current case temperature is 29.5C but the sun isn't directly coming into this room at the moment.

I have space internally for 2x 120mm fans, these would be positioned behind the HDD encloser.

Would these help aid the air flow from the front of the case to the back or would it totally mess the air flow up?

Here's a pic to help explain what I mean.

You see the HDD and the metal side to the left, that side is full of large holes, so I would attach the fans there. One at HDD height and one below.

avrc · 11 Jun 2007 at 19:51

Any thoughts?

current case temp is 33C but it hasn't been that hot today.

CPU temp seems fine at 39C (Athlon X2 4600+)

Geforce 7900 core temp is currently at 57C.

HDD is at 35C - temp taken from sensor stuck to top of drive.

Combat squirrel · 11 Jun 2007 at 20:01

temps sound fine tbh, if you want more air flow wack in those 120mm fans

avrc · 11 Jun 2007 at 20:07

I'm just concerned about mucking up the current flow which would make extra fans pointless!

I guess the best thing to do is stick them in and see if the temp goes down or stays about the same when it's hotter.

avrc · 13 Jun 2007 at 16:21

Well, took me 3 hours including redoing my last attempt at cable management. May still look a bit messy in the pics but apart from the SATA cable, everything is hidden or zip tied to the back.

All temperatures are down between 3 and 4C although how much of that is down to the temperature outside I don't know.