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- Nov 25, 2009
I have made use of a few fans that I had laying around to try and increase the airflow in my case.
I removed the standard Coolermaster 120mm fan from the rear of the case, and fitted it down in front of the drive bay, where I had originally mounted the Coolermaster silent blue LED fan - this is an intake fan
I then removed the blanking plates for the 5.25" drive bays, and zip strapped the 120mm LED fan in place - this is also an intake fan:
Lit up:
Lit up in the dark:
I took the Zalman 120mm fan off of the CNPS10x Quiet, that I had bought and then found wouldnt fit with 4 RAM modules, and mounted that at the rear of the case where the original Coolermaster fan went, acting as an exhaust fan.
I then zip strapped an 80mm Akasa LED fan from a CPU cooler to the side of the case to act as an exhaust fan for the GPU cooler.
Am quite happy now
I also cleaned the CPU TIM off and applied Antec Formula 5 Silver compound.
I am waiting for the compound to break-in - but so far temps seem to be roughly 5c lower than they were before
If I set all the fans to 100%, I can get the CPU to idle at roughly 25c
But I am using speedfan to control some of the fans (only CPU and one power connector on the board allows the speed to be changed) and the others are being controlled by Zalman FanMates.
I removed the standard Coolermaster 120mm fan from the rear of the case, and fitted it down in front of the drive bay, where I had originally mounted the Coolermaster silent blue LED fan - this is an intake fan
I then removed the blanking plates for the 5.25" drive bays, and zip strapped the 120mm LED fan in place - this is also an intake fan:
Lit up:
Lit up in the dark:
I took the Zalman 120mm fan off of the CNPS10x Quiet, that I had bought and then found wouldnt fit with 4 RAM modules, and mounted that at the rear of the case where the original Coolermaster fan went, acting as an exhaust fan.
I then zip strapped an 80mm Akasa LED fan from a CPU cooler to the side of the case to act as an exhaust fan for the GPU cooler.
Am quite happy now
I also cleaned the CPU TIM off and applied Antec Formula 5 Silver compound.
I am waiting for the compound to break-in - but so far temps seem to be roughly 5c lower than they were before
If I set all the fans to 100%, I can get the CPU to idle at roughly 25c
But I am using speedfan to control some of the fans (only CPU and one power connector on the board allows the speed to be changed) and the others are being controlled by Zalman FanMates.