How many fans do you have?

[casecutter]

Re: How many fans do you have?

Well, I promised a few pictures so here they are:





I made the radiator/pump/reservoir housing out of an old case I chopped down. I am using 1/2" ID reinforced tubing. I had to boil it to get it to form the bends for the SLI waterblocks, but it is 100% kink free. The two 120MM fans on the Radiator are 110VAC current along with the pump so it is stand alone, requiring no power from the PC.

[metallicat666]

Re: How many fans do you have?

thats a nice setup casecutter.

i have 1 fan in my system (its a laptop so its all i can have in it)

[Munkul]

Re: How many fans do you have?

1 CPU fan, 1 exhaust fan with funky lights, one modded PSU fan, and graphics fan, with the first 3 hooked up to aerogate3, the PC was almost silent untill the nasty big graphics card cand along and spoiled it all.... sob!

[matm347]

Re: How many fans do you have?

12 total
2x 80mm stealths for my 6 hdds, 2x 80mm vane style as exhaust(top and rear). 1x50mm over RAM, 3x 120mm stealth under radiator, 1x120 + 1x80 in PSU and arctic cooler ~72mm for GPU. Most are controlled by my fan bus, the loudest thing is my pump, which will be cut down by some dynamat. I also have another centrifugal type which cools my north/south bridge heatpipe setup(A8N32-SLI).

[ANZAC_ELITE]

Re: How many fans do you have?

........ Besides, my board has very few 3 pin connectors for new fans. Oh well, it's a dell.

You can get a fan controller and run your fans off the 12v molex connectors, they don't need to be attached via 3 pins to the m/board. If you get Zalman fans they come with a Molex splitter, 2 x 5v (quieter, less rpm, less cooling) and 2 x 12v (louder, more rpm, better cooling) so you can select what speed you run the fans at (a very basic method of fan speed control)

[dryadsoul]

Re: How many fans do you have?

Well, I promised a few pictures so here they are:





I made the radiator/pump/reservoir housing out of an old case I chopped down. I am using 1/2" ID reinforced tubing. I had to boil it to get it to form the bends for the SLI waterblocks, but it is 100% kink free. The two 120MM fans on the Radiator are 110VAC current along with the pump so it is stand alone, requiring no power from the PC.

Nice work casecutter! Where did you get your fan shroud? From the soldered center divider, it's obviously metal.

I made these out of 2mm Aluminum:

It's just a prefinal mock up, but it shows the overkill factor of the 3" rise!

[dryadsoul]

Re: How many fans do you have?

How many here, like myself, refuse to power fans off of the mobo headers and use molex instead?

Was just curious, as I'm going to do the dedicated mobo PSU with my SB SUNNU550w and mod my old TT TR2-430w to run Everything except my mobo/GPU.

[casecutter]

Re: How many fans do you have?

Yeah, it is metal. I got it off Ebay, basically took a chance not really knowing if it was gonna work for me. So glad I did, it works perfectly. It is actually decently thick steel and is welded!

What you have started looks promising and just give that rad some space to breathe. Keep working on it, it is a great project! Good luck!

[dryadsoul]

Re: How many fans do you have?

Thanks, it is a fun challenge. Here's the full loop set up for leak testing in front of its' intended new home. The heatercore/shroud unit will sit on the plexi shelf (shown here in brown) which allows for 13/4" free flow on either end to cool the cores tanks as well.

[jose123]

Re: How many fans do you have?

MGE Sidewinder case<P><P>
2 80mm rear out, 1 120mm front intake, one of the 2 side panel 80mm to the back intake, radiator fan water cooling 80mm. controlled by CoolMaster Aerogate 2 or else as loud as a jet! The radiator fan controlled tru the MOBO via SpeedFan.

[cluis89]

Re: How many fans do you have?

wow 10 fans, i have 5 all 80mm not including the psu and the cpu fans
when my computer is running it sounds like a jet engine

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[casecutter]

Re: How many fans do you have?

Well, major update for me. I got an old Aopen server case and decided to install it all in one case.



Works great and my temps are still excellent. Now I just need to finish modding the side panel with a window and I will be done again for now.

[bf2nut]

Re: How many fans do you have?

Horray for a new thread.

I have 5 case fans and 1 for the CPU.

My computer is louder than my refrigerator. I can hear it through my wall.

^________^

cant hear mine now