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Overheating problem ! Don't waste your money on a new case , modify your old one very cheaply . As we are all well aware manufacturers and their university trained design staff have all got their heads way up in the clouds (in yorkshire we'd say something else but this is a family friendly site) . Hovering so high in the rarefied atmosphere these poor mindless folk have forgoten the basics of life .
Even our ancestors the cave man knew that HEAT RISES so bearing this in mind heres a simple way of cooling your case .
You'll need a overheating case , this will show the greatest temp difference , but any case will do .
A piece of card .
A pencil.
A small sheet of scrap steel , I used some old stainless I had which proved rather difficult to shape , so thinner is better .
A pop riviter . Cheap ones are only £4.99 and they come with rivets .
A electric jig saw .
A file or a grinding stone for a electric drill.
A electric drill and a drill bit . Same size bit will do for the fan mounting holes and the rivets .
A 120cm fan . I used this one,
http://www.quietpc.com/gb-en-gbp/products/120mmfans/coolink_120_r
But if I was to repeat the experiment I'd use this one as it shifts twice the amount of air and it looks realy funky .
http://www.quietpc.com/gb-en-gbp/products/120mmfans/za-120-golffan-clear
I would recomend a fan controller to use with the fan . The Coolink I used was very quiet indeed .
If you follow the pics you'll see what I did and the semi-finished job . I was going to put a grill on the extension but its not realy needed unless you have small kids or pets .
The work took about 2 hours and that included stripping the case and re-fitting the internals . So why did it take me 2 days , well I take long tea and smoke breaks .
The work is pretty Blue Peter really . Decide where to position the fan , not too close to the back of the case as the psu will impede air flow . Mark out , cut and drill and file rough edges . Make a card copy of the cover , cut , bend , put plaster on finger
, you should file before bending , drill , rivet .
Fit fan , as you can see the fan is fitted to the outside of the case so make sure its pointing in the right direction . Do not use a smoking cigarett to see which way the fan blows as you may inadvertantly touch the fan blades with the lighted cigarett and you will get a room full of red hot embers
this can have quite serious after effects . Washout the case and dry . Re-fit the internals . Polish the extension with Solvo Auto Sol , you can miss out this stage , but it made the stainless shine realy well .
And there you have it , a nice cool case at a total cost of under £15 .
How did it perform you ask . Very well indeed , temps dropped by around 7 to 8 degrees C at full speed . Thats pretty cool in my book .
Those of you with sharp eyes will have noticed the DIY HDD hanger made for a astoundingly cheap price of 46p . It worked and it was quiet too as I used some old grommets for sound insulation .
Even our ancestors the cave man knew that HEAT RISES so bearing this in mind heres a simple way of cooling your case .
You'll need a overheating case , this will show the greatest temp difference , but any case will do .
A piece of card .
A pencil.
A small sheet of scrap steel , I used some old stainless I had which proved rather difficult to shape , so thinner is better .
A pop riviter . Cheap ones are only £4.99 and they come with rivets .
A electric jig saw .
A file or a grinding stone for a electric drill.
A electric drill and a drill bit . Same size bit will do for the fan mounting holes and the rivets .
A 120cm fan . I used this one,
http://www.quietpc.com/gb-en-gbp/products/120mmfans/coolink_120_r
But if I was to repeat the experiment I'd use this one as it shifts twice the amount of air and it looks realy funky .
http://www.quietpc.com/gb-en-gbp/products/120mmfans/za-120-golffan-clear
I would recomend a fan controller to use with the fan . The Coolink I used was very quiet indeed .
If you follow the pics you'll see what I did and the semi-finished job . I was going to put a grill on the extension but its not realy needed unless you have small kids or pets .
The work took about 2 hours and that included stripping the case and re-fitting the internals . So why did it take me 2 days , well I take long tea and smoke breaks .
The work is pretty Blue Peter really . Decide where to position the fan , not too close to the back of the case as the psu will impede air flow . Mark out , cut and drill and file rough edges . Make a card copy of the cover , cut , bend , put plaster on finger
Fit fan , as you can see the fan is fitted to the outside of the case so make sure its pointing in the right direction . Do not use a smoking cigarett to see which way the fan blows as you may inadvertantly touch the fan blades with the lighted cigarett and you will get a room full of red hot embers
And there you have it , a nice cool case at a total cost of under £15 .
How did it perform you ask . Very well indeed , temps dropped by around 7 to 8 degrees C at full speed . Thats pretty cool in my book .
Those of you with sharp eyes will have noticed the DIY HDD hanger made for a astoundingly cheap price of 46p . It worked and it was quiet too as I used some old grommets for sound insulation .
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