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Okay, I'm reading the thread here on different smoke sources and why each one is in some way harmful / not making enough smoke...
And I had an idea !
.... whyyy not NOT use smoke? Let me pose another question:
How do you determine which way the air is blowing outside, say on a golf course or a baseball field? I can think of three ways (none of them involve smoke):
1) you drop some sand/ soil and see which way it veers on its way down (NOT a good idea inside our cases )
2) You stick your index finger in your mouth to give it some saliva, and subjectively determine which side of your finger gets cold first (this would work in principle, but it's not accurate)
3) You watch the flags on the stadium bleachers / on the golf course holes and see which way they are pointing.
This third method isn't always great outside, because at times wind is changing direction quite randomly, but in a controlled environment like a computer case (where the fans and vent/intake holes/cracks) aren't moving around, this would be an IDEAL method to determine the direction of the airflow at different points, and thus determine how air is moving through your case!
I know you many good-willing case-cooling fanatics will try to shoot my idea down ASAP, in the interest of challenging and defeating any foolish ideas for the good of the masses, so let me address a few arguments against my idea beforehand (I'll start with the expected dumb ones first):
Argument 1) You can't fit a freakin pinnacle inside your case, and the airflow isn't strong enough anyway to show where the air is moving at any one point.
Retort 1) We could avoid that problem by using a light "flag," like a down feather or two tied to a stick with a short section of string so it may rotate freely.
Argument 2) You are assuming that cases do not contain any situations where the direction of the airflow doesn't change direction, but turbulance / odd shapes can create quasi-vortexes of air which might make your "feather-flag" not point in any one direction for a long time
Retort/Acknowledgement 2) That's a good point, but if you do run into that sort of situation at any one point you should be able to check points radially around it to determine the sense of the vortex (clockwise/counterclockwise), and from that whether it's hurting/helping your case flow
Argument 3) You're an idiot and I think your idea is dumb coz' you made me look foolish earlier/ have a weird avatar/ use AMD processors (i.e. I don't have a reason but I like to talk)
Retort 3) Go argue with your wall for awhile, your fingers won't get as tired
so what do you think?
EDIT: And if I didn't fully respond to any of these arguments/ or missed some logic/reason that would actually make my idea invalid, please don't hesitate to point that out - I know I'm not always right
And I had an idea !
.... whyyy not NOT use smoke? Let me pose another question:
How do you determine which way the air is blowing outside, say on a golf course or a baseball field? I can think of three ways (none of them involve smoke):
1) you drop some sand/ soil and see which way it veers on its way down (NOT a good idea inside our cases )
2) You stick your index finger in your mouth to give it some saliva, and subjectively determine which side of your finger gets cold first (this would work in principle, but it's not accurate)
3) You watch the flags on the stadium bleachers / on the golf course holes and see which way they are pointing.
This third method isn't always great outside, because at times wind is changing direction quite randomly, but in a controlled environment like a computer case (where the fans and vent/intake holes/cracks) aren't moving around, this would be an IDEAL method to determine the direction of the airflow at different points, and thus determine how air is moving through your case!
I know you many good-willing case-cooling fanatics will try to shoot my idea down ASAP, in the interest of challenging and defeating any foolish ideas for the good of the masses, so let me address a few arguments against my idea beforehand (I'll start with the expected dumb ones first):
Argument 1) You can't fit a freakin pinnacle inside your case, and the airflow isn't strong enough anyway to show where the air is moving at any one point.
Retort 1) We could avoid that problem by using a light "flag," like a down feather or two tied to a stick with a short section of string so it may rotate freely.
Argument 2) You are assuming that cases do not contain any situations where the direction of the airflow doesn't change direction, but turbulance / odd shapes can create quasi-vortexes of air which might make your "feather-flag" not point in any one direction for a long time
Retort/Acknowledgement 2) That's a good point, but if you do run into that sort of situation at any one point you should be able to check points radially around it to determine the sense of the vortex (clockwise/counterclockwise), and from that whether it's hurting/helping your case flow
Argument 3) You're an idiot and I think your idea is dumb coz' you made me look foolish earlier/ have a weird avatar/ use AMD processors (i.e. I don't have a reason but I like to talk)
Retort 3) Go argue with your wall for awhile, your fingers won't get as tired
so what do you think?
EDIT: And if I didn't fully respond to any of these arguments/ or missed some logic/reason that would actually make my idea invalid, please don't hesitate to point that out - I know I'm not always right
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