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Rob posted a very interesting article on how he used the Nidec 9cfm squirrel cage blowers from Radio Shack to cool his Celery.
It raised a few questions, questions I keep having, but never realy ask.
For a while now, actually ever since Hoot's cohesive air article, I've always been on the passive lookout for blowers that are DC and have decent CFM. It seems that I either find things such as the 9cfm Nidecs or 30000cfm powerhouses!
Ok, maybe not THAT many cfm, but you get the point!
I THINK i might recall seeing some sub 30cfm blowers from grainger...but nothing above that without getting something like a 200cfm blower. I believe they even had one that was DC.
Considering that the air delivery is so much better and so much more "direct" to the cpu's core, as in no axial air patterns and no dead spot over the CPU, is there any estimate as to what CFM a blower would have to be to equal, say, a Delta38?
For instance, is 27cfm of blower air going to be as efficient as 38cfm from a Delta?
I hope we see more blowers in the future. It's obvious they work better and are quieter than their axial cousins. But so hard to find in the cfm we might look for to mount directly on a heatsink!
Maybe I just need to look for those sub 30cfm blowers again and pick one up and see how it compares...the problem is, I don't think even 2 of those 9cfm Nidecs will do much for my Thunderbird at 1365....
Mike
It raised a few questions, questions I keep having, but never realy ask.
For a while now, actually ever since Hoot's cohesive air article, I've always been on the passive lookout for blowers that are DC and have decent CFM. It seems that I either find things such as the 9cfm Nidecs or 30000cfm powerhouses!
Ok, maybe not THAT many cfm, but you get the point!I THINK i might recall seeing some sub 30cfm blowers from grainger...but nothing above that without getting something like a 200cfm blower. I believe they even had one that was DC.
Considering that the air delivery is so much better and so much more "direct" to the cpu's core, as in no axial air patterns and no dead spot over the CPU, is there any estimate as to what CFM a blower would have to be to equal, say, a Delta38?
For instance, is 27cfm of blower air going to be as efficient as 38cfm from a Delta?
I hope we see more blowers in the future. It's obvious they work better and are quieter than their axial cousins. But so hard to find in the cfm we might look for to mount directly on a heatsink!
Maybe I just need to look for those sub 30cfm blowers again and pick one up and see how it compares...the problem is, I don't think even 2 of those 9cfm Nidecs will do much for my Thunderbird at 1365....
Mike
