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I have 2 case fans and a cpu fan. I also have the side panel off. Water cooling is an unnecessary expense for me
I have 2 case fans and a cpu fan. I also have the side panel off. Water cooling is an unnecessary expense for me
Lol... I ended up removing the perspex from my side panel so I could have better airflow without losing a fan. Two graphics cards made the air temp in my case almost double.But it doesn't have very good airflow to begin with, so water cooling makes more sense for me. It's just cost and fear of the unknown that's been stopping me so far... The idea of water pipes looping through the inside of my precious computer case still freaks me out, but I think I may need to do that sometime...
From my experience with servers and such...typically removing the side panel does more harm than good when it comes to cooling. Screws up the air flow within the case since it doesn't provide a solid air channel of air coming in from one area and making it's way out through another single area.
For the most part, that is true... But if you have a case that has really bad airflow (such as mine), then it's actually better to take the side panel off. Lol...
I brought my tower to work today to update antivirus and all that jazz (no internet at home), so I just took a few pics of what it looks like. I just noticed one of the pics came out a bit blurry, sorry about that..
That's what I meant by I removed the perspex from the side panel, and added extra fans. Lol. I have a case mod idea (along with a Zalman CNPS-9700 CPU cooler), which I will hopefully be able to do in the next month or two, so I'll put up new pics then, but for now this is what I have (I really want a modular PSU):
Both my HDD's generally sit around 30 degrees Celsius naturally, but CPU sits at about 40 idle and maybe 55-60 under load.
I'm getting my ASRock > Products > G31M-S tomorrowWill post some pics sometime tomorrow :)
The Motherboard has arrived :)![]()
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My CPU spikes up to 70, but then again it's laptop, so it's supposed to.