Increase Airflow in Mirage

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k guys...give me some ideas to improve the airflow around the CPU and cooler inside an Akasa Eclipse. My CPU temps have gone up rapidly since changing case's last week…so much so that im having to back off bigtime my overclcoked E6600. I have a 120mm Amber installed on the intake, and also pushing out….and one installed on my Scythe Ninja cooler. If I take the case side panel off…the temps drop 5-10C…which means that the CPU and its cooler just isn’t getting enough air. I always had a warm running CPU but in the previous case it was fine…60-65 load on both cores. Since putting into the Mirage…full load on both cores is going way above 70:mad: . Any ideas to increase the airflow in this case…please supply me :D
 
i have the mirage too with e6600 at 2.8ghz temp with tat are at 42*c idle and 52*c with orthos have 120mm rear and front fan with zalman 9700 cpu exhausting air toward's rear case fan. system temp are at 37*c

zia
 
For the case to be 37c wow mine is at 26c rarely goes above that.
How about a scythe kama bay sounds perfect to me.
No idea what the problem is maybe a reseat the eclipse/mirage is one of the best cases foor cooling out there so i cannot fathom those temps.
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My temps have gone up big time from using the Antec 900. I have reseated the CPU heatsink three times at the weekend without any temp improvement. I am using Akasa Amber 120mm case fans in and out, and one on the Ninja CPU sink. The problem seems that arround the CPU heatsink is the Silent heatpipe cooling system for the Gigabyte DS4 motherboard. and just below this i have a large 8800 GTX sitting. When you put you hand in this area there is a lot of heat. The Antec 900 had two front 120mm fans and a mahoosive fan just about the CPU area sucking all the heat out...and therefor airflow was far greater. with the Ecplipse you cannot feel very much airflow arround the CPU area...and I think its struggling to remove the heat build up...allowing the temps to rise.
 
akasa do a sidepanel with 120mmfan fited maybe this would help you? antec cooling is superior due amout of fan's it has. carn't see why you couldn't achieve similar result's by adding fan's to akasa but would involving modifying your case.

zia
 
I to am a little dissapointed with the cooling in the Akasa Mirage. I find that it does struggle to remove the heat around the cpu area. I currently have a panaflo 38mm fan on the intake which seems to push air through a lot better than the 25mm fans so I might get one for the exhaust as well.
I am hoping to go watercooling at some point so this case was still worth it.
 
zia said:
akasa do a sidepanel with 120mmfan fited maybe this would help you? antec cooling is superior due amout of fan's it has. carn't see why you couldn't achieve similar result's by adding fan's to akasa but would involving modifying your case.

zia
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thats the idea...i was trying to find ouit if anyone had done such mods to include more fans where they arent designed to be installed already. I need some ideas:confused:


I to am a little dissapointed with the cooling in the Akasa Mirage. I find that it does struggle to remove the heat around the cpu area. I currently have a panaflo 38mm fan on the intake which seems to push air through a lot better than the 25mm fans so I might get one for the exhaust as well.
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thats maybe a good idea...i assume the sizes you mention is the thickness of the 120mm fans. Ideally two 120mm fans in the front of the case would be the way to go...one above the other.
 
I also have that problem, my Akasa doesn't seem to move the air about, 2 ambers intake and exhaust aswell as the Akasa Sidepanel with Fan.

My E6600 stays at around 45-50'c Idle overclocked to 3.4ghz, and that's when my room temperatur is around 20'c.


Could it be that my Artic Freezer Pro 7 is not upto the job?

I've been thinking to buy the new Thermaltake HSF.


Suggestions will be appreciated. Thanks.
 
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thats maybe a good idea...i assume the sizes you mention is the thickness of the 120mm fans. Ideally two 120mm fans in the front of the case would be the way to go...one above the other.
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Yep, although I had to bend the airguide on the far side of the lower hard drive bay to make room for the 38mm thick fan. The pressure that it pushes the air through seems to be significantly greater than a 25mm fan at the same noise level.
 
I just tried an experiment by placing the 38mm fan on the rear exhaust vent but blowing inwards, even though it was blowing against the 1200 rpm fan on my ninja and i effectively had no exhaust fan it still dropped temps by 6C. To me it proves that the temps are an airflow issue rather than a HSF issue.
 
yep...thats what i need...more airflow to the CPU and thats would effectively do just that...might give it a try...blowing in from the back and blowing out from the front. even though hot air rises....it might get the heat away from the affected area.

Just noticed also that my 8800GTX is sitting idle at 62C...which means its also a whole 7C more than it was in the Antec 900....probably about the same rise at least with the CPU! It defo an airflow problem.

When loading the CPU with the side panel off then puting it on...the CPU temps rise 6-7C in the next few minutes!
 
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TBH...i think ive just proved its the airflow. with panel off its 7C less. I'm finding it hard tio feel any major airflow inside the case....and the length of the 8800GTX is probably stopping some of the intake air from getting up towards the CPU area.
The Conroe stock cooler gave even worse temps...I tried that just to make sure the Ninja was doing its job.
 
hmm i find it odd because if i take the side panel off
my eclipse it makes no difference whatsoever to cpu tempurature.
Did you remount the heatsink etc or just unscrew the board from the
antec and bung in mirage?
 
zia said:
i have the mirage too with e6600 at 2.8ghz temp with tat are at 42*c idle and 52*c with orthos have 120mm rear and front fan with zalman 9700 cpu exhausting air toward's rear case fan. system temp are at 37*c

zia
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His seems to be ok I guess every rig is different i'd be more than happy
with 52c full load on an overclocked conroe.
 
geff_r said:
hmm i find it odd because if i take the side panel off
my eclipse it makes no difference whatsoever to cpu tempurature.
Did you remount the heatsink etc or just unscrew the board from the
antec and bung in mirage?
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reseated 3 times at the weekend...and tried the stock cooler also.

A lot of the Conroes have been reported to run high when overclcoked...and to voltage is adjusted ever so slightly. I think I have one of them. However, in the Antec case I had it running both cores Orthos stable at 3.5Ghz with full load about 65...which is OK. Now..two cores loaded..and backed off to 3.2Ghz..its 70C...its not going to kill it...but its not good eigther. Same setup..different case!
 
geff_r said:
hmm i find it odd because if i take the side panel off
my eclipse it makes no difference whatsoever to cpu tempurature.
Did you remount the heatsink etc or just unscrew the board from the
antec and bung in mirage?
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Geff as with Toxic I find if i remove my side panel the temps drop significantly. I have a 8800GTS and the airflow below it seems fairly strong but above it it appears poor. It almost appears if the graphics card is acting as an airguide and preventing decent flow around the cpu area.
 
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