I took out the old bigger fan that was hooked up within the power supply and rigged in this smaller fan that is lying directly on top of the heatsink (and hooked up by a normal molex). As you can see, some of the thing is still open and touchable. I am trying to figure out a way to screw it in with the fan staying where it is. Is this safe? I really need to shrink this.
I have another idea: I will put a plexi window on that opening for protection. I could also probably put the bigger fan back on there (this one is cool because it has an LED). Which idea is better?
I suppose that the first pic would be fine, but your fan is blowing out of the psu, check if thats how the original fan was. Don't wanna have it in the wrong way
if you have a fan blowing into the psu, and a fan sucking out, and out of the case, like a combo of the first and second, that would be best, cause it will double as a blowhole.
Will my second idea cause the 200 watt PSU to overheat (it's going to be powering an old 300 MHz PII with one hard drive, 2 light up fans, 128 MB of RAM, a very old AGP graphics card, and possibly a network adapter.
I doubt it, thats how most psu's are set up, as far I've seen, mine is, its a 350watt psu, and has no problems with heat. Plus the fan has a very low rpm and cfm rate. PS: what keyboard is that? I like it.
O, I have a logitech cordless, and the mx700, but i got them before the elite duo, so I had to buy them individually
perhaps the 2nd idea is not that good, unless you leave some openings on front or bottom to keep the air flowingthrough the PSU , if you are going to do #2 i would also open up the back
