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Well, I suppose nobody has any real insight into this. There's no problem anyway, I was just curious over design philosophy. The new system is running nice and cool, however. Plenty of overhead if I should decide to try some overclocking.
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Yeah, we had a problem a while back if I remember right.
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Back to your original question, I suppose the choice rather depends on your design philosophy, but there are some things to consider: A cooler that goes from the front to back of the case is going to generally tend to work with the natural airflow pattern in most cases, where the fan that goes toward the side of the case will tend to disrupt the airflow. A fan that pulls from the side of the case and blows down onto the cooler is going to tend to pull cooler air from the side case panel (indeed, many cases are designed with this in mind, even to the extent of a special duct for that purpose). In addition, the transistors for the CPU vreg will generally be located in that area, and will benefit from the airflow of the exhaust off the heatsink being blown down onto the board. One of the biggest reasons that CPU overclocks become unstable is because the vreg capacitors dry out, and a big portion of that problem comes from the caps running hot, owing to the fact that the water block the typical OCer fits to the CPU doesn't allow for any airflow across the vreg to cool it (no fan). |
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i would say for the best cooling try making the case as small as you can its not easy as you got the graphics card plus PSU and the cd/dvd drives keeping the case wide. the faster you can move the air the better cooling you will get. and the longer the pc will run. my rig has lasted 5 years the psu has failed me but 5 years....
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Actually I think there is much to be said for a LARGE case.... it allows hot air to rise naturally, air to circulate more easily and with less need to push it rapidly though the case... to each his own... I say that as I have no proof what so ever that my "intuition" is right on this...":O}
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![]() The only advise I have to say about case cooling is make sure all your airflow is going in the same direction, otherwise there will be turbulance which makes for bad cooling. The other point is make sure you have the same amount of air going in as out. It does no good to have a bunch of fans blowing in with only one or 2 blowing out. If anything it's better to have more exhaust fans than fans blowing in. I use the Zalman CNPS9700 so it blows to my rear exhaust fans, but some that use say the Antec case will have it blowing to the big exhaust fan they have at the top of the case. Just make sure the CPU heat is being blow towards an exhaust fan... ![]() The pic below is an example of my case fan configuration.
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Antec Sonata III, good choice. Mine's been sitting in its shipping carton for at least a year. How lazy can I get?! I just don't feel like spending ~$1100 for a spiffy new machine when I seriously don't need the upgrade in performance. Luddite? Yes, to some degree.
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As a follow, up, I should mention not to buy the Thermaltake V1 for use on an AMD CPU. The heat pipes interfered with locking down the retention mechanism. Took me 45 minutes of fussing and fiddling to get the lever locked down. I saw mention in Maximum PC magazine that they had the same problem. System has been running nicely for about 10 months now.
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