Any thoughts on Hard Drive coolers?
- Thread starter racketboy
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ahh.... missed the thermal part -- I skim too much
would 1 be enough or should I get 2?
so the fans would be blowing cool air onto the HDs? or hot air off? [/b][/quote]
one 80mm should be fine
if you have a hot glue gun, put down 4 beads to give it some lift off of the hdd and allow air to flow under the fan. that'll be a better soluytion then the thermal tape. but if you're gonna go ghetto, thermal tape is the way to go.
Scared0o0Rabbit
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theoretically you could suck air in through the place where the floppy was... however it wouldn't be much. Probably not worth doing that, if you did have vents on the front a good way to lower temperature might be to drop a fan in the front that sux air in.
well the case panel old on the front
even if it didn't it would look pretty ghetto still.
it's a small box in a pretty decent sized shelf.
I'll probably take the case off when I'm using it a lot and no people are over
The case comes off and on real easy at least
I would like to put some small vents on the top, but not the circle type most people sell.
I would want just some slits or a rectangle shaped vent.
Don't know how much of a possibility that would be though
BTW, thanks for all the help with this project guys.
I know its a junk computer, but this is good practive for me and it's still fun even if the hardware is ancient.
Scared0o0Rabbit
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I wouldn't call it ancient... I just took apart a 386 the other day
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A case fan actually gets rid of the heat from the pc. That thing just blows it around in the case. It's like putting a fan in the middle of your oven and expecting it to cool anything down. Remember you want to REMOVE the heat and not just MOVE it around.
For that case I would suggest adding a fan in the back and sides. If you can at the top too. If possible at cut some slots or something at the front to provide an entry point for cool air. You don't want to just suck in the hot air your fan worked so hard to push out of the case.
so...
if I stick the current case, we've come to a conclusion that I should put a case fan on top of the HD.
any ideas on putting more vents on the top of the case without it looking tacky?
I would like slots instead of round vents, but I don't know how to do that.
Although maybe a line of small circles would be cool????
if I stick the current case, we've come to a conclusion that I should put a case fan on top of the HD.
any ideas on putting more vents on the top of the case without it looking tacky?
I would like slots instead of round vents, but I don't know how to do that.
Although maybe a line of small circles would be cool????
some people dremel holes on the top of their case and put stylish fans with a 'radioactive' grill on top of them, sometimes they look neat, sometimes they look retarded.
some people dremel holes on the top of their case and put stylish fans with a 'radioactive' grill on top of them, sometimes they look neat, sometimes they look retarded. [/b][/quote]
I know what you're talking about
considering this is a small case, I think those would go on the retarded side
I know what you're talking about
considering this is a small case, I think those would go on the retarded side [/b][/quote]
you could put one on the side of the case, you could also get one of those pci slot fans
on the side of the case (with the case cover off even) there is a bunch of steel on the sides. (Check pics posted earlier to see what I mean).
also I think we also came to the conclusion that PCI fans generally suck.
but this thing caught my eye
anybody have opinions?
also I think we also came to the conclusion that PCI fans generally suck.
but this thing caught my eye
anybody have opinions?
i thought you had a small case lol, that thing looks huge
no it's pretty small
Here's a front view of the original case It's been modified since then though. See prior discussion for details.
