Well now that I have your attention, let me tell you about my innovative cooling solution. Regardless if you’re an overclocker or not this stuff creates ample heat. Even if you have you PC running at acceptable temps, you ever notice how the room’s ambient temp starts increasing after several hours of operation. To make matters worst, I have a desk with a cubbyhole and door where I store my PC. Heat always builds up no matter how hard I tried to vent it. I got Artic Silver 3 and a Koolance water-cooled case. CPU was cool but the compartment and my room eventually got warm. Water cooling only displaces the heat faster, it doesn't destroy heat. It has to go somewhere right.
Finally I decided to be innovative and created a custom heat portal in my wall. I bought a large Radio Shack fan. Not sure of the exact size but the rpm is 2100, it cost $22 and is about 3.5 inches in diameter. It was 110v ac so I had to also purchase a cord and crimp it on to plug it into my surge protector. Next I went to Home depot and bought a large PVC coupler. The PVC 4" on one end and narrowed to about 3". The total length was about 6". Cost was $1. Picked up a pack of 10" door/window self adhesive rubber molding for about $6. Add in another $1 for a pack of 4 L-brackets. Went home and carefully drilled holes and mounted the fan quite nicely to the 4" end of the PVC. It fit so well it must have been meant to be. I also did some careful measuring to see exactly where on the wall my PC backed up to it and cut a hole just about 1/8" smaller than the dimensions of the Radio Shack fan. I added some molding around the fan and stuffed it in the hole. The L-brackets, which extended past the PC side if the fan kept if from falling through the hole. It was a pretty snug fit and could support itself given the heavy weight of the fan and PVC combined. I then added some molding on the outer lip of the PVC's smaller end and backed my computer firm up to it. I already had a nice hold in the back of my desk to vent heat so this step was already done. I planned it so my PSU exhaust would meet up perfectly to the PVC. I have no other case fans whatsoever. I shut the cubby door and cranked it on. Right away I noticed the rather loud noise of my Fortron Source PSU unit was muffled quite significantly. All the heat gets pushed into the wall and not the room. I was absolutely astounded with the results. Quiet, cool, and low cost. Spent a mere $30. I got over a 10 degree Celsius drop in case temp, an additional 3-4 degrees on my CPU (which was already water cooled), and the room itself stopped feeling like a sauna. If you’d had it with heat build-up then you might want to give it a try. You can kill two birds with one stone, heat and noise. By the way, I carefully cut out the drywall section in one nice piece and kept it in case I ever moved I could easily replace it and paint over the wall.
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Finally I decided to be innovative and created a custom heat portal in my wall. I bought a large Radio Shack fan. Not sure of the exact size but the rpm is 2100, it cost $22 and is about 3.5 inches in diameter. It was 110v ac so I had to also purchase a cord and crimp it on to plug it into my surge protector. Next I went to Home depot and bought a large PVC coupler. The PVC 4" on one end and narrowed to about 3". The total length was about 6". Cost was $1. Picked up a pack of 10" door/window self adhesive rubber molding for about $6. Add in another $1 for a pack of 4 L-brackets. Went home and carefully drilled holes and mounted the fan quite nicely to the 4" end of the PVC. It fit so well it must have been meant to be. I also did some careful measuring to see exactly where on the wall my PC backed up to it and cut a hole just about 1/8" smaller than the dimensions of the Radio Shack fan. I added some molding around the fan and stuffed it in the hole. The L-brackets, which extended past the PC side if the fan kept if from falling through the hole. It was a pretty snug fit and could support itself given the heavy weight of the fan and PVC combined. I then added some molding on the outer lip of the PVC's smaller end and backed my computer firm up to it. I already had a nice hold in the back of my desk to vent heat so this step was already done. I planned it so my PSU exhaust would meet up perfectly to the PVC. I have no other case fans whatsoever. I shut the cubby door and cranked it on. Right away I noticed the rather loud noise of my Fortron Source PSU unit was muffled quite significantly. All the heat gets pushed into the wall and not the room. I was absolutely astounded with the results. Quiet, cool, and low cost. Spent a mere $30. I got over a 10 degree Celsius drop in case temp, an additional 3-4 degrees on my CPU (which was already water cooled), and the room itself stopped feeling like a sauna. If you’d had it with heat build-up then you might want to give it a try. You can kill two birds with one stone, heat and noise. By the way, I carefully cut out the drywall section in one nice piece and kept it in case I ever moved I could easily replace it and paint over the wall.
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