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As some of you know, I'm in the progress of upgrading my HTNAS with a custom case. Since airflow and heat-stockage will be a problem in the new case without proper adjustments, I've decided to opt for a AIO water cooling solution for the CPU.
The main reason for this is that i can set it to push the "cooled air" directly out of the case instead of just away from the CPU.
Short system spec:
- 550W PSU that will be mounted with both exhaust areas outside of the case (back & bottom, will face back and side).
- 2x IcyDock MB974SP-B (will be mounted with a pipe on the fans that leads the exhaust out of the case)
- 7" touchscreen that does produce a bit of heat, but not much.
- Asus F1A75-I deluxe mainboard with A6-3500 APU and 8GB Corsair XMS3 1333 ram.
- SATA/SAS controller
The cpu doesn't generate much heat and does work fine with the stock fan now (PIB), but it is a bit loud. Anything else in the case that generates heat is being directly exausted and only thing left is the heat from the mainboard itself.
So my plan was, get a AIO WC unit, replace the fan with a better, slower and more silent one and add one or two more fans to the case all spinning at around 600rpm and I should be good.
But what AIO to pick? all tests of them are on highend systems mostly overclocked and not a little tripplecore APU on FM1 socket running at 2.1ghz, so the noise and cooling options i can read from them doesn't help me much in this particular area.
As some of you know, I'm in the progress of upgrading my HTNAS with a custom case. Since airflow and heat-stockage will be a problem in the new case without proper adjustments, I've decided to opt for a AIO water cooling solution for the CPU.
The main reason for this is that i can set it to push the "cooled air" directly out of the case instead of just away from the CPU.
Short system spec:
- 550W PSU that will be mounted with both exhaust areas outside of the case (back & bottom, will face back and side).
- 2x IcyDock MB974SP-B (will be mounted with a pipe on the fans that leads the exhaust out of the case)
- 7" touchscreen that does produce a bit of heat, but not much.
- Asus F1A75-I deluxe mainboard with A6-3500 APU and 8GB Corsair XMS3 1333 ram.
- SATA/SAS controller
The cpu doesn't generate much heat and does work fine with the stock fan now (PIB), but it is a bit loud. Anything else in the case that generates heat is being directly exausted and only thing left is the heat from the mainboard itself.
So my plan was, get a AIO WC unit, replace the fan with a better, slower and more silent one and add one or two more fans to the case all spinning at around 600rpm and I should be good.
But what AIO to pick? all tests of them are on highend systems mostly overclocked and not a little tripplecore APU on FM1 socket running at 2.1ghz, so the noise and cooling options i can read from them doesn't help me much in this particular area.
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