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Hello all,
I am about to build my first comp. because my Gateway isn't fun anymore, and I thought I'd give assembly a try. I have all the parts sitting here, but I have a few questions about cooling before I put it together so I don't fry anything, and I'm not interested in watercooling yet.
Here's my parts list:
Aspire x-gear case
Asus P4P800 w/Intel 865pe chipset
Intel 2.8ghz P4 800mhz FSB, 1MB L2 cache, HT, Prescott
1GB Corsair XMS PC-3200 to run in dual channel
2 80GB 7200 SATA drives to be run in RAID 0
Sony 3.5
Pioneer DVD rw+/rw-
Asus 52x cd rom
ATI 9800 pro ( will be a Geforce 6800GT)
Antec True 350w 2 fan (thinking this should be a 430w)
Cooling:
Vantec Nexus fan controller
6 Vantec 80mm Stealth case fans
Swiftech MCX478-v with a Vantec 92mm Stealth
Swiftech MCX159-r for the chipset
Arctic Silver 5
O.K. now, my case has 2 front intakes, 2 rear exhausts, 1 top exhaust and 1 side panel ?. The ? is because I can't decide whether to use that as an intake or exhaust. As an intake, it would blow on the mobo, but I think it would be blowing the heat back onto it from my heatsink fans. But...as an exhaust would it take away from the lower front to upper rear flow pattern, keeping my case a little hotter then it could be? Also, would the 430w power supply be that much better then the 350w I currently have? Any help will be greatly appreciated, as you are essentially helping me evade the trial and error approach and since this is my first build, I'm hoping for a clean, problem free first boot.
I am about to build my first comp. because my Gateway isn't fun anymore, and I thought I'd give assembly a try. I have all the parts sitting here, but I have a few questions about cooling before I put it together so I don't fry anything, and I'm not interested in watercooling yet.
Here's my parts list:
Aspire x-gear case
Asus P4P800 w/Intel 865pe chipset
Intel 2.8ghz P4 800mhz FSB, 1MB L2 cache, HT, Prescott
1GB Corsair XMS PC-3200 to run in dual channel
2 80GB 7200 SATA drives to be run in RAID 0
Sony 3.5
Pioneer DVD rw+/rw-
Asus 52x cd rom
ATI 9800 pro ( will be a Geforce 6800GT)
Antec True 350w 2 fan (thinking this should be a 430w)
Cooling:
Vantec Nexus fan controller
6 Vantec 80mm Stealth case fans
Swiftech MCX478-v with a Vantec 92mm Stealth
Swiftech MCX159-r for the chipset
Arctic Silver 5
O.K. now, my case has 2 front intakes, 2 rear exhausts, 1 top exhaust and 1 side panel ?. The ? is because I can't decide whether to use that as an intake or exhaust. As an intake, it would blow on the mobo, but I think it would be blowing the heat back onto it from my heatsink fans. But...as an exhaust would it take away from the lower front to upper rear flow pattern, keeping my case a little hotter then it could be? Also, would the 430w power supply be that much better then the 350w I currently have? Any help will be greatly appreciated, as you are essentially helping me evade the trial and error approach and since this is my first build, I'm hoping for a clean, problem free first boot.
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