air cooled mini-tower

[dugans]

I've been messing with airflow a few weeks now, trying to get Athlons in mini-towers to run with low temps-cpu/case. I found a few things that worked until the 3rd one: really cheap case and shoved into a corner so ventilation is poor. Temps in this pc were 40 case, 50 cpu until I put 6 fans and a side duct in! Sounded like an airport!

So I decided to run a force-fed duct from the case front, use 1 case intake and 1 exhaust (plus psu). I am now getting case 38c and cpu 43c.

Here is a crude diagram of this setup- anyone have comments/suggestions?

[The Overclocker]

nice temps, i am fitting a watercooling setup in my midi tower, are you using standard fans, upgrade to delta screamers or improve the size (92 or 120)

[dugans]

Most of the fans I'm using are cheapo 80s, but the main thing I want is quiet! None of the fans are rated for more than 30db, except the cpu fans- and I'm working on that.

I do have a 120 intake in one rig- extra volume to help with the 400mhz overclock!

[mrilock]

Maybe my problem is that I have a small case - it looks about the size of the one in the diagram, and I couldn't get my temp below about 58 c under load. I may have to do what you did, with the force feeding. My sunon 50cfm sounds like a frikkin airplane! It is driving me nuts...