So my last mod was cutting a dirty great hole in my case panel. Beltin, looks good. Lately I've not had much cash (wife-to-be at uni - Expensive), but I have had a 40cmx40cm square of brushed aluminium sat around not doin anything. Raiding my spares box I found a foxconn 90mm fan and a dusty old adda 80mm fan. This is what happens when Povertyxboredom+(fans+aluminium+dremel)=DIY fan mounts! Heres the intended locations. Here to pull cool air through the meshed front 5" bays And one down here to pull air from the open back of the case and point it at my GPU fan It was raining, so armed with a fan to blow the dust outside, and a cat to oversee my work, I began to lay waste to the aluminium sheet. I used cardboard as mock-up pieces after measuring to ensure they fit correctly, then layed these out on the aluminium as stencils which I marked out with a sharpie. After a few dremel discs and a coffee later I was left with these. Note the card mock-ups. I left the ally cut outs over a radiator for a bit to warm up ready for bending. After burning my middle and ring finger, I put some gloves on and began bending using 2 huge sheets of MDF to sandwich the metal where I wanted to keep it flat. Without going into too much detail, after a while I got these And I was pretty happy. Untill I realised I have nowhere to plug the fans in . So all in, this will cost me £2.40 tomorrow for a pair of fan splitter cables. Here they are all mounted up anyway Not really a MOTM nominee, but it kept my hands busy for a few hours. Thanks for lookin.
The PCI slot one is a genius idea, looks really nice too. Now if only there was some way of reversing it so it sucked all that nasty hot air from the GPU
Thanks! Spose you could if you reversed the wires in the plug for the fan on the GPU? Ive still got warranty on the GPU, so I wont be doin that Right, idle temps are in. Not done any load readings yet, but with ambient @ around 25 degrees. All these were with fans at settings as quiet as possible. Im getting CPU- 31 degrees down from 34 - Helped along by 90mm fan(standard clocking with an Asus silent square 2. Dont ask WHY standard clocking- BIOS and Mobo are a POS) GPU- 60 down from 62. (HD 6850 OC'd by about 15 percent with auto fan control) Helped by the 80mm fan With all fans on full (wind tunnel mode) all other settings same, Im seeing CPU @ 30 and GPU @ 59! Im quite happy with that Temps recorded on Core temp taskbar monitor and MSI afterburner task bar monitor. Fluctuations of +1/-1 degree were observed, but not sustained.
I didn't quite mean make the fans spin in reverse. Most fans only work when rotating in the correct direction. What I meant was making some form of shroud that sucked in the exausted hot air from the GPU and pushed it outside of the case. Nice to see an actual drop in temps. Be intersting to see how it affects load temperatures
Cant be too hard. Would make quite a bulky addition to the back of your case though, you could easily apply the same principle as my internal mount, but just make it inverse and aim the fan upward.
Ballocks, I was after some brushed alu Well, school's out now, and a new project waits for me to get going on. Maybe you could do one too and we'll have a little wiganer competition in MOTM
