Why does my airflow suck?

[jwk_57_316]

I have like the maximum amount of fans you can have in a casse, like 20 fans total including power supply and [-peep-].

7 case fans (6 80mm and 1 60mm)
Blower fan in PCI slot
2*2 fans on each harddrive
5.25 bay fan (3)
vantec fan on video card
thermaltake volcano 12+ on CPU cpu runs at 38*
power supply is a Aspire 520watt with 3 fans
memory coolers on all 3 rams

athlon xp 3000+, 3*512 corsair pc2700, asus geforce fx5600 256mb ddr, asus a7n8x motherboard.

 

[gomerpile]

I'm very supprised you don't have power problems using that many fans with one supply

 

[jwk_57_316]

well its 520 watts i use to run all that on a 350 watt powersupply and i noticed when i would click something i heard my powersupply power up and [-peep-] lol. Maybe there is but i dunno. My computer does just restart sometimes for no reason.

 

[gomerpile]

I used DC fans on one power supply before; I changed that idea with AC fans. I have found that processing power means everything. Myself I use 2 power supplies, one operates the digital display monitor, the digital display supplies all the DC fans. The other operates system and hardware. Ok now, reboots all the sudden could mean power-off on errors or could be shortage of power or software problem. Or could be the processor has been over clocked or vcard over clocked, over heating, hard drive errors, incorrect registry setting, any number of things.
I’d start with power and go from there.

 

[shawnlizzle =]]

okay, let me point out couple of things

1) HOLY MOLY, THATS A LOT OF FANS
2) those fans look very inefficient
3) too many fans can creat really shitty flow of air, like instead of air flowing one way, it flows 20 ways, and creating this blob of air in your case.
4) are you sure you have bad air flow?
5) case air flow isn't the most important thing, when it comes to cooling, it might be the least important thing

<font color=red>gforce mx100/200 @ 230/440 =]</font color=red>

 

[gomerpile]

Thats right, I forgot get rid of a whack of fans