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icel0rd · 02-22-2002, 04:45 PM

Yeah, I thought about moving it to another location, which would make it easier to resolve my airflow issue on the rad.

Since I took I mounted it underneath the chassis, my options are somewhat limited, and performance may be just as limited as my options given the setup.

I pretty much have 2 options. The first would be to design something to cool the rad with limited space underneath the chassis, especially when the rad already killed a lot of my under-chassis clearance.

The other option would be to just accept the fact that it was probably a dumb idea and move it to one of the two remaining viable spots. I could top mount it and go with Brad's airflow suggestion, or mount it in the same side of the chassis as the mobo and put it where the slots are to accommodate the huge PCI cards, where I would have to do a lot more customization (well, somewhat more) to get it behind those vertical rails. 2 120mm fans right there would be sweet. I may even consider isolating the rad (air-wise like I tried to do by bottom mounting) and make a bottom air intake and have dual 120 mm fans blow the exhaust out of the font of the chassis.

I really wanted to cut down on the darn fan noise though. The aircraft sounding machine used to sound cool, but over time it got really annoying, so I dropped scsi, dropped my heatpipe cooler with the loud fans, and wanted to get things as quiet and efficient as possible.

I appreciate the suggestions as always. You guys are a great help and give me lots of inspiration and motivation to try things.

Maybe I will try the blower box over my rad underneath and see how well it works. If the temps still suck, I will go with one of the above approaches.

02-22-2002, 04:45 PM	#16
icel0rd Cooling Savant Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Where even the devil wont go Posts: 103	Yeah, I thought about moving it to another location, which would make it easier to resolve my airflow issue on the rad. Since I took I mounted it underneath the chassis, my options are somewhat limited, and performance may be just as limited as my options given the setup. I pretty much have 2 options. The first would be to design something to cool the rad with limited space underneath the chassis, especially when the rad already killed a lot of my under-chassis clearance. The other option would be to just accept the fact that it was probably a dumb idea and move it to one of the two remaining viable spots. I could top mount it and go with Brad's airflow suggestion, or mount it in the same side of the chassis as the mobo and put it where the slots are to accommodate the huge PCI cards, where I would have to do a lot more customization (well, somewhat more) to get it behind those vertical rails. 2 120mm fans right there would be sweet. I may even consider isolating the rad (air-wise like I tried to do by bottom mounting) and make a bottom air intake and have dual 120 mm fans blow the exhaust out of the font of the chassis. I really wanted to cut down on the darn fan noise though. The aircraft sounding machine used to sound cool, but over time it got really annoying, so I dropped scsi, dropped my heatpipe cooler with the loud fans, and wanted to get things as quiet and efficient as possible. I appreciate the suggestions as always. You guys are a great help and give me lots of inspiration and motivation to try things. Maybe I will try the blower box over my rad underneath and see how well it works. If the temps still suck, I will go with one of the above approaches.