SK6+ question

[cmcquistion]

Can you use a 80mm fan on the SK6+, using the included clips. The item description says that it comes with clips for 60x25mm and 60x38mm fans. I was wondering if anyone has used a 80mm fan on it successfully.

[Randy]

I tried a sunnon 40cfm 80mm on my SK6 with and without a funnell adapter and I went back to the delta 60mm as my temps went up quite a bit. It was so long ago that I can't remember how much exactly they went up though.

[cmcquistion]

So the 80mm fan didn't cool as well?

How did you attach the fan adapter?

[caRpetbomBer]

http://members.rogers.com/mborowski/qw.jpg
Try it like this you should still get good temps.

[cmcquistion]

Wow, that looks good. It looks like a lot of the heatsink isn't getting any air, though, since the hub of the fan is so big.

What's your overclock and temps with that setup?

[caRpetbomBer]

Its on a XP2100 not overclocked 80mm fan spinning @2500rpm real quiet. Temps right now are 44c. Yes i know the center of the fan is real big and alot of the fan flows over the heat sink. I tried other 80mm fans with smaller centers there is no big difference it temps.

[cmcquistion]

I wonder if you got an old crummy 80mm fan and cut out the hub and blades, attached it as you now how the fan attached, then screwed an 80mm fan onto the plastic frame of the fan you just attached, whether that would help, or hurt temps. I tried this on another heatsink and it didn't make any difference, but I wonder how much it would help that heatsink.

[caRpetbomBer]

i would like to know which 80mm fan has the smallest center.

[cmcquistion]

probably those new Vantec's. The ones that run from magnets in the vanes, being driven by the outside frame, not from the hub. I've seen pictures of them and they had really small center hubs.