kylekatern All American 3291 Posts user info edit post |
I am starting to look at parts for my new pc case, and need to decide on either pure forced air cooling, using a filter, intake air box, and a 250 cfm ac fan with 120mm blowhole exhaust fans, or a similar air intake system with watercooling. If I go with watercooling i can redirect the filtered air through a radiaor and out the top of the case, if i go with forced air i have to have air ducts running to each major component.
The case design is going to be an older, non tower desktop design. Keyboard/mouse tray will be part of the base, and I am debating simply mounting legs on it and making it a stand alone desk with built in pc. Air intake, regardless of other functions, will be a 12X18 or larger filter directly above the keybaord/mosue tray that feeds a 2 inch tall airbox before the intake fan. I am allowing the bottom 6-8 inches of case for fan, intake hood, filters, pump and radiaotrs for watercooling if needed, and the powersupply. I also need recomendations for a decent HS to use, as I i doubt my current SLK-800A will handle anything faster than the 2600 it is on now. At this point I am NOT planning on major upgrades to the system that will go in this case, this is mreo of a build the case, drop my current system into it, and be able to upgrade the guts for years, while having a very efective case to house it in. 9/26/2005 12:01:04 AM
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darkone (\/) (;,,,;) (\/) 11608 Posts user info edit post |
^^Set in on a hard, flat, non-heated surface so it can properly breath. Most of the laptop coolers you see on the market don't really have much of an effect. 9/26/2005 1:17:01 PM
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Incognegro Suspended 4172 Posts user info edit post |
nobody "needs" to go water cooling... with integrated phase change and TEC systems available, "obscene" overclocking starts well below ambient, don't even joke about that ![](images/tongue.gif)
that said, increasing the flow of your air cooling solution can get you to ambient as functionally as water cooling. it boils down to aesthetics-- air coolers become monstrously large and loud past a certain point, and the point where it is too large or loud is a matter of preference.
complete integrated water cooling systems that cool as well as a cheap HSF but dead silent start around 150$ last I checked... so you may look at it like this: is a quiet system that you can't really overclock worth 100$ more to you than some of the best air cooling on the market? if you really couldn't give a flying fuck less about overclocking, then you might just want to go water. otherwise, a water system that is comparable to the high end air coolers will run you 2-300$, component or integrated. if you are going to sink that much into it, you might as well hit 400$ and get an integrated phase change system.
[Edited on September 26, 2005 at 2:22 PM. Reason : *] 9/26/2005 2:18:47 PM
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