- Joined
- Oct 10, 2003
- Location
- sweden (I am a viking)
Up until today i was using a fan shroud like most other "water-cooling-geeks" that sucks air in thru the radiator sitting at the front of the case resulting in that you get some hot air sucked into the case. This didn't use to be a problem but with Vcore voltages aproaching 1.95v the water in my watercooling system was really heating up!
When i was priming this afternoon i noticed that my case temprature reached 40° and that was way too much for me to accept i needed to take action. I bet the first idea you get is lets add some more/better exaust fans. More fans = more sound and since i live in a small apartment that was no option.
So here is what i came up with, a fan shroud that doesn't dump any hot air into the case:
When i was priming this afternoon i noticed that my case temprature reached 40° and that was way too much for me to accept i needed to take action. I bet the first idea you get is lets add some more/better exaust fans. More fans = more sound and since i live in a small apartment that was no option.
So here is what i came up with, a fan shroud that doesn't dump any hot air into the case: