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Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Upgrading the fans for better airflow and silent operation

I bought three more fans for the PC, replacing the two Antec Tricool fans that came with the Antec 300 case + the Thermalright X-Silent fan that came with the Thermalright Mux-120 CPU cooler which was mounted on the side panel of the case as I installed a couple of Enermax T.B.Silence fans on the heatsink.

I experimented with the fan plan before I put the order for the new fans. I removed everything except the 4 Enermax T.B.Silence 120mm fans I already had.

1. One front in-take (the lower fan slot)

2. One read exhaust

3. One on the side panel pulling air in

4. One fan pulling air onto the CPU heatsink from the front

These are the temps of the CPU and Video card. (Ambient 24.7C)

idle with fewer fans

Figure 1: idle temps of CPU and GPU.

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