Whoohooo! Attack of the Temjins! I think the Antec guys saw that Silverstone was already here in force and ran for the hills.
Huzzah to you as well, Clocker. If I couldn't see the the side of the front door in that picture, I would dispute that that was even a TJ-06! What does the "(Sprocket)" mean? Is that just your name for the computer or was there some other version of the -06 that I don't know about? And what happened to the other raptors!? I only see two SATA coming from that motherboard, and one goes into the CDROM drive, so that leaves...carry the seven...Only one Raptor! Don't tell me you scrapped a 3+0 Raptor RAID array! Surely that would be too sweet to get rid of!
As for the duct not affecting component temps more, actually it affected them quite a bit, and I would definitely recommend this as a mod to anyone looking to lower temps without adding more noise.
The temps may not seem super low, but remember that my fans are running at very low speeds, so the cooling really isn't as great as you'd inititially think just by looking at the WC components. Before I added the duct, I had the radiator drawing air from inside the case, and temps were CPU 41c and GPU 54c @ load, so the duct alone, with no other modifications (or re-seating any of the blocks, either) dropped the temps 7c CPU and 13c GPU @ load and allowed me another 170mhz rock-solid overclock
. I'd say it was definitely worth it! In reality, I'm not sure if the additional overclock was due to reduced CPU temps, or if it was due to reduced temps of other, aircooled components (i.e, NB temps dropped 8c). Since the radiator was intitially hogging the air coming in through the rear intake, there's also more air circulating throughout the rest of the case too now. In any case, make a duct! If there's anything I've learned in my ventures into silent computing, it's that first you watercool it, then you duct it! I should go preach this over in the Mods forum...