If I put the radiator outside of the case, do I need case fans?

[Tipycol]

I am thinking about getting water cooling, but have a crappy case. Of course, if I get a really good case right now, I wouldn't be able to get the water cooling. I also don't have any processor cooling for the 1600+ that I own (though I think I could find a stock fan somewhere).

Anyway, do you think if I put the radiator outside of the case, and have the case's side and top (at least this case can do that ;)) off, the system would be all right with temps (watercooling the cpu, gpu, and nb)?

[juliendogg]

yeah that would probably be ok, it's nice to have some air moving across the mobo and hdd's though.

[Tipycol]

Yeah, I don't want to do this for long, just until I get money for a larger/better case (thinking about the Fs020 or the Genie). Maybe Christmas would get me the money for that ;)

[nfsga]

OT...just wondering why you are running your pentium 666@570.

[JFettig]

youll want to have airflow around videocard, hdds, and chipset otherwize itll be alrite, some dulls and gateways only use the psu for airflow...

[Tipycol]

Yeah, I guess I could get some type of airflow around those areas of the case. Would probably look ugly, but I think I can get two fans, one blowing onto the vid card/mobo and one to the harddrives.

Originally posted by nfsga
OT...just wondering why you are running your pentium 666@570.

Because my motherboard doesn't have the AGP divider of 2, so at 133fsb is unstable. It might not have the PCI divider of 4 either, but I've been told some do. Oh well, I can't test that out either way.

[The Spyder]

i have ONE FAN in my amd computer ONLY for the powersupply......... ;D its silent at 5v.......... the other fans are outside my window.........they work ok~