Soldato
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Hullo all,
Can I get your advice on how best to mod and improve airflow in my case. I've got the original Lian Li pc7 with 3 80mm silenx ixtrema blue led fans. Since they're a bit crap and the machine isn't keeping my 4300 as cool as I'd like (70C load at 3Ghz on 1.4V on a zalman 9700) I'm going to invest in some bigger, better case fans.
I'm going to replace the exhaust 80 mm with a Sharkoon 2000 120mm, but I'm not sure what to do with the front of the case.
At the moment I've taken out the 3 HDD bay and front 3.5" slots and put a 120x38mm NMB Minebea SMARTFAN 12VDC 0.5A FAN 4715ML-012P535-P2 I had lying around in its place, resting on the 2 80mm fans and tied to the front of the case by cable ties. It's dropped my cpu temperature to about 47-49C at idle (3ghz 1.4v, zalman 9700 and the 120mm NMB fan at 9v) and 61-2. (Anyone have any experience with this fan and know how it compares noise-wise with the 2000 sharkoons?)
I'm a bit reluctant to take the dremel to the case around the 80mm fan holes on the front as it looks like I'll be left with a mangled hole to the side of the new 120mm fan if I do this... (DaveMac do you have those photos of your mod?).
If I leave the 120mm fan where the 3.5" bay used to be would it be pointless/much less effective to also mod one of the front 80mm holes to a 120mm (as there'd be much more inflow than outflow into the case...?)
How would you change my case?
Sorry for rambling a bit, any opinions would be appreciated!
Can I get your advice on how best to mod and improve airflow in my case. I've got the original Lian Li pc7 with 3 80mm silenx ixtrema blue led fans. Since they're a bit crap and the machine isn't keeping my 4300 as cool as I'd like (70C load at 3Ghz on 1.4V on a zalman 9700) I'm going to invest in some bigger, better case fans.
I'm going to replace the exhaust 80 mm with a Sharkoon 2000 120mm, but I'm not sure what to do with the front of the case.
At the moment I've taken out the 3 HDD bay and front 3.5" slots and put a 120x38mm NMB Minebea SMARTFAN 12VDC 0.5A FAN 4715ML-012P535-P2 I had lying around in its place, resting on the 2 80mm fans and tied to the front of the case by cable ties. It's dropped my cpu temperature to about 47-49C at idle (3ghz 1.4v, zalman 9700 and the 120mm NMB fan at 9v) and 61-2. (Anyone have any experience with this fan and know how it compares noise-wise with the 2000 sharkoons?)
I'm a bit reluctant to take the dremel to the case around the 80mm fan holes on the front as it looks like I'll be left with a mangled hole to the side of the new 120mm fan if I do this... (DaveMac do you have those photos of your mod?).
If I leave the 120mm fan where the 3.5" bay used to be would it be pointless/much less effective to also mod one of the front 80mm holes to a 120mm (as there'd be much more inflow than outflow into the case...?)
How would you change my case?
Sorry for rambling a bit, any opinions would be appreciated!
I think I'm going to go overboard and put an antec 200mm tricool fan in the top as well as the sharkoons front and rear, as I've seen it for £14 elsewhere