To mount a heatercore in fron of PSU's

[RedArmy]

I am aiming for a dead silent watercooling setup again. And was thinking of getting a Lianli70 case and putting a 2x120mm sised heatercore right in front of the PSU for the exiting air to cool the PSU heatsinks: thus, allowing me to have only 2 low spinning 120mm fans in the whole case. The second PSU is intended for a pelt by the way. What do you guys think about that idea ?

[Giblet Plus!]

It should work okay, if you make a shroud between the heatercore and the power supplies, and remove as much material from the front and back of the power supply case as possible.

[CrashOveride]

I agree with Giblet Plus!, I actually have some of the air from my rad going by my PSU with no problems, just make sure you cut out some of the grill on the back.

[Raider84]

whats a sissed heatercore!?!

[CrashOveride]

He meant 2X120mm sized I think.

[RedArmy]

LOL exactly! English is not my first language, so I am still prone to making mistakes like that. Anyways, I actually wanted to leave as much stuff intact as possible. Do you think there would be serious airflow restrictions if I don't make extra opennings in my PSU's ?

[thorilan]

add 1 120mm fan but run it at 7v ( in pull config) the psu wont pull enough air to be really effective and you will notice a huge performance hit. using an aluminum 120mm fan on 7 volts is very quiet and you can probly get away with 5volts. i have my heatercore mounted to the top of my case ( 2x 120mm plus 2 shrouds on my dtek pro core) THE BEAST (http://forum.oc-forums.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=221241&perpage=50&pagenumber=1) OR PROJECT:THE BEAST (http://forums.bit-tech.net/showthread.php?s=&threadid=39211)

[E_Man]

My old water cooling system bugged out a little bit and began to have a slow leak on my vacation, then i made the mistake of puting a little H2O2 in my system and everything bubled up


ANyways, I decided i wanted to try not overclocking my system and just running it silent, without anthing to drastic.

Right now my watercooling system cools the following.

7200rpm harddrive
athlon 1800+ 1.8v
geforce 4 4400 600 core
Nforce2 northbridge
maxijet 1200

IM using a chevette heatercore and 300watt powersupply.

The powersupply is moded to use only a 120 vantec stealth 28DB.

so the only fan i use is the vantec stealth on the PS

My heatercore feels look warm, my cpu temp is all the way at 48C fulll load but i think thats because of bad mouting on the block

[RedArmy]

Nice setup. I al looking to do the same. However I think there should be a fan blowing onto PSU heatsinks at all times, because I already fried my 450W Enermax by moving the nearest fan 10 cm away from it