window fan as radiator fan

[71skylark]

Why not use a 18" window fan with a cardboard and duct-tape adapter for crazy cfm through a radiator? it would look like hell but I'm sure if you wanted to you could make an adapter from metal or plywood.

[cowanrg]

well, its been done before actually. it will work, but you just won't have the small compact effect that you would with a smaller system. plus, it would look like hell :-)

[killem1x1]

I have a very high CFM, large fan that I keep in my computer area, just to "help out" when I am Oclocking, but if I post temps, I always state everything I use to get there, please do the same ;)

[Mac42]

This is how my computer is set up (I hope the links work):

http://xfactor.clanpages.com/coil.jpg


http://xfactor.clanpages.com/enclosure.jpg


Basicly I have one fan blowing in and one blowing out... it circulates air through the coils without affecting my room temp. One night it got down to about -10C outside and even at load my cpu never went above 25C, and that was at 1650Mhz+.


After this pic was taken I changed to clear tubing and added Dye-Lite (so it glows blue under a blacklight) and just made sure everything didn't look a crappy.