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@Alien: Glad you didn't take offence at the last bit of my post  |
Wasn't offended, more concerned that I might have put you off modding computers, or p****d you off by making it sound easier than it had turned out to be. For future reference, I tend to lean more towards understatement than exageration.
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I gather that pic is the CPU AND SOCKET glued to the heatsink  |
Close, but not quite - look again. The lugs of the socket that the heatsink was latched onto turned out to be stronger than the bond/grip/whatever between the socket & the metal pin bits that were soldered into the motherboard. [plus I used Arctic Silver, not the original chewing gum that Cooler Master put on it] That's 1 of the reasons why you couldn't pay me enough to use an ECS [aka Elitegroup] motherboard. It's not like the heatsink was heavy either, just a cheap aluminium Cooler Master jobby [good enough for an XP2000 that wasn't going to be overclocked, plus they wouldn't cough up for a decent 1]. Also, if I ever build a system for someone I don't know really well again, & they ignore my recommendations for hardware [I recommended an Abit board, they insisted on the cheap ECS 1 because they couldn't afford the Abit], I'll just tell them to find someone else to build their computer for them.
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Hope I don't get a parcel of you anytime soon  Was it Parcel Force that delivered it? Puts the FORCE part into perspective then if it was!! |
LOL, no, Royal Mail "Special" Delivery.
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The 120mm fan indeed is the one that was hung under the HDD, it's now bolted to the chassis where I made the big hole  I also drilled holes in the case front, it already had an ideal pattern of indents in it which made drillng so much easier, I now have an 11 x 11 grid of holes in a 12cm square. Stuck some tissue paper inside to stop dust again. |
In all honesty, I think that tissue paper might be hindering airflow too much. Dust's only a problem if like me you can't be bothered to have to clear the dust out of it every month.
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The phone, I just taped the base station to the bracket using PTFE (Put The F***er Everywhere) tape, it'll do for now  |
Cool.
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Hmm.. A pair of tights! I can use a spare pair I have, err... they're for when I go fishing gov, honest!  |
Unless "fishing" is a euphamism I haven't heard before, I'm not sure that excuse works.
As I said previously, I haven't tried them before, so don't know how they rate in terms of a balance between airflow & dust filtering.
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The fan noise is not as bad as before too, so somethings happened! Either too much turbulence before or the side ones aren't spinning, can't see for the tissue paper |
Probably the reduced turbulance on the front intake fan.
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@Zing: They are only low RPM Silent ones in the side, didn't think they'd do much to upset the flow seeing as the rear fans are spinning much faster, that's if they are spinning as I mentioned above I can easily unplug them if they're not needed, or can flip them round to blow out, or have 1 blow in 1 blow out etc!! |
Out of the various options you've listed the 1 in/1 out is the 1 I'd forget about straight away, if they're close together you'll just have the intake 1 taking back in the warm air the exhaust 1 has just removed. That's why people don't make the rear fan below the PSU an intake instead of an exhaust.
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Maybe use one of those smoke bombs my local plunber uses for testing the air draw of chimneys, stick in the front of the case and if I don't get much smoke coming out the rear of the case somethings up  |
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yes do that and if the air is disturbed by the side fans or is not being drawn out correctly alter your cooling |
The only thing that would bother me about that idea is what sort of residue the smoke might leave behind.
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imo pic is ideal airflow
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^^ what he said.