big fan hack

[UglyShoes]

big fan hack

[UglyShoes]

Well I haven't had time to do what I want to do to my shuttle do to classes.  But I decided to do a test for the heck of it.   I shoved my 120mm vantec stealth inside my shuttle inplace of the 80mm for the hell of it.  It's just sitting in there with a mess filter on one side.   So far my temps dropped from 55C to 43C,  note that 55 was after if had no cpu fan for a few minutes.  It's not very loud, but does drop the temps and was kinda fun to check out. .    Well My plan for some point is to replace all 3 fans with one fan,  I keap having deferant ideas, which doesn't help in getting it made,  i'll post pics if and when i do.  Just thought I would share some 1 minute hack data on what a 120mm inside can do.

[jimbob]

I have an SB61G2, but I think that they are similar enough to warrant comparison:

I replaced my 80mm ICE fan with an AOC/Evercool 120mm fan on the outside (I'll get pics up eventually; it's not all that exciting), using an aluminum 80mm->120mm adapter.  Temps at idle are 37/37/33/41 (HDD/case/CPU/VRM), when gaming it gets to 40/40/50/52.  The big fan is running at 5% at idle, and ramps up to about 50% when gaming.  The PSU fan is for all purposes off, and no heat is coming out of the PSU fan hole; my best guess is that the 120mm moves enough air to where the PSU throttles its own fan back to almost 0%.  At idle I run the IGP/chipset fan at 50%, since it overheats rather quickly when doing anything other than text-editing and compiling, when gaming it's at 100%.  Even loading up Flash animations make it overheat quickly; better safe than sorry.

An interesting note is that if I run the 120mm at 100% (79CFM, 34dB), my idle temps drop to 34/34/28/38, but it's a little too noisy for my tastes.

Jim

[UglyShoes]

Yeah i need time,  I have a plan now to get air to everything with the one fan on the inside with no interior re-aranging.   The vantec isn't silent,  but inside the case it's sound isn't to bad.   Considering how my 40mm have taken a crap,  it is much better then them if i things rerouted.  I also sources some PIC microcontrollers today, so i may finaly get to work on my  computer controlled fan controller project.  Now i just need time,  stupid classes.