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- Jan 29, 2003
Alright, here's the situation:
I'm building a sweet box from the ground up for college. It's going to be in a Dragon case. I've got an SK-7, 5 92mm high speed panaflo's and some thermoformable plastic in the mail as we speak.
Originally my plan was to have a panaflo on the heatsink and a matching panaflo in the back of the case with an airtight plastic duct connecting them. However, after reading a bazillion posts, I decided that it would be more beneficial to first have an airtight riser that would keep the fan 25mm or so from the heatsink, thus reducing the dead spot, then from there have a duct that was connected to a hole in the back of the case. I came up with this design based upon several of nerdlogic's posts that state that a straight on shroud is beneficial and on various other posts that stated that a second fan at the end of the duct wasn't beneficial.
However, I've recently read several posts where adding a second fan to the duct helped reduce temps, so, with a few days left before my materials get here, it's time to come up with a final design.
At this point I'm still planning to go with the 25mm shroud + a duct to a blowhole in the back of the case. I could then attach an extra fan to the back of the case and have it blowing into the duct to see if this actually did help temps.
What are your thoughts/suggestions? I got some cool transparent red plastic so this thing should look pretty sweet, but I'd like it to work well too.
I'm building a sweet box from the ground up for college. It's going to be in a Dragon case. I've got an SK-7, 5 92mm high speed panaflo's and some thermoformable plastic in the mail as we speak.
Originally my plan was to have a panaflo on the heatsink and a matching panaflo in the back of the case with an airtight plastic duct connecting them. However, after reading a bazillion posts, I decided that it would be more beneficial to first have an airtight riser that would keep the fan 25mm or so from the heatsink, thus reducing the dead spot, then from there have a duct that was connected to a hole in the back of the case. I came up with this design based upon several of nerdlogic's posts that state that a straight on shroud is beneficial and on various other posts that stated that a second fan at the end of the duct wasn't beneficial.
However, I've recently read several posts where adding a second fan to the duct helped reduce temps, so, with a few days left before my materials get here, it's time to come up with a final design.
At this point I'm still planning to go with the 25mm shroud + a duct to a blowhole in the back of the case. I could then attach an extra fan to the back of the case and have it blowing into the duct to see if this actually did help temps.
What are your thoughts/suggestions? I got some cool transparent red plastic so this thing should look pretty sweet, but I'd like it to work well too.