Air Cooling

[j2k4]

Clocker-

Your pipe-wrap mounting method is ingenious-

I have a question:

It would appear the foam also would have the effect of limiting/redirecting airflow in that area of your case, due to what would appear to be close proximity to the sides of your box, creating a seal of sorts.

Is this an intentional condition/benefit?

[Virtualbody1234]

Great work, clocker.

Watch out for your fingers. You need some fan guards.

[clocker]

J2,
As yet I have no idea what the sealing effect/benefit may be as I'm unable to mount the sidepanel yet.
Time will tell. I can't imagine any benefit/ disadvantage to this arrangement, but, if anything, I have learned that only a real world test will tell.

VB,
I would love to have finger guard, these fans are real VegO-Matics, the problem is that the mounting panel has welded in studs to mount the fans and they aren't long enough to include the guards. If this arrangement stays ( and, given my past history, that is doubtful ) I'll figure something out.
I've already realized that I need to mount a on/off switch for the Muffins somewhere convenient/external. Last night when I shut down the PC I completely forgot about them and they ran all night.
Shows how quiet they are, which is a good thing.
I kinda like the idea of the fans running after shuttdown to help prevent heatsoak...I've seen a device which times the fans to run after shuttdown, but it is for 12v units.
Another thing to figure out.
This is turning into a nightmare. I thought I'd be done by now.

[SciManAl]

This is turning into a nightmare. I thought I'd be done by now.

LOL
will you have some substancial progress by this weekedn?? i think with my photoshoot yours should be as welll...

a Showdown if you will....

[clocker]

OK, a pic.

Things aren't working out quite the way I had hoped...I need to get some more material (Sintra, maybe?) and make a new panel for the roof fans as the front fan fouls the back of my drives a bit.

Also it turns out that there is room for two 120mm fans on the front casewall, and whaddya know?, I just so happen to have another one so in it goes.

Surprisingly, the front fans actually draw in quite a bit of air given that they really don't have a good access to the outside. I'll just test the temps as it is ...I can always open up the front doorpanel with a grill or something.

Playing with the PSU was much easier than I had imagined...once I found the courage to begin it went relatively fast. Time will tell whether all this has been worth it or not, either way, I learned alot and I guess that's worth something.

[adamp2p]

clocker you are one hell of a classic B)

[clocker]

I'll take that as a compliment so thank you.

[tesco]

ive got two quick questions:

1) what is the hard drive attached too? i know it has the heatpipe cooler on it but how is it held up like that? ive never seen that in any case before.

2) how come you put the psu hanging from the cd drive bays? i thought you were going to put it on the case floor.

[clocker]

The HDD is bolted to the motherboard wall using some rubber isolators that came with the heatpipe cooler. It stands about 5/8" off the wall.

I was going to mount the PSU down on the floor, but it occurred to me that moving it up to the bay bottom would eliminate a lot of length in the cabling. My only concern is that it had to be flipped upside down again ( which is actually the stock position)and cooling it may be an issue. I have one 80mm fan blowing across the heatsinks and time will tell if that's good enough...

[DWk]

One word to describe: w0ot

NJ man