mounting a mobo upside down?

[Nsidious9]

Hey all, I have seen a few case mods (stacker 830/832) where the owners mounts the mobo upside down (BTX style one of them said). Any reason to that?

[AliG]

airflow? Looks? It could be various reasons

[Chewbenator]

I have the PC-A05 and it has the mobo inverted. Depending on the layout of the case it can trap hot air above the video card, especially if there isn't a blowhole and if the case ends right above the top of the mobo. I'm going to mod a 2x rad grill up there next week for future WCing options and first and foremost to get rid of all that air.

[Croak in BC]

Most of us Stacker users that flip the mobo do it to give clearance for a bottom mounted radiator and fans, and because it's dead easy to do with a Stacker...slide tray out, flip it, slide in on other side.

Here's mine before I flipped:

http://novuscom.net/~john.capozzi/CM882_03.jpg


And after:

http://novuscom.net/~john.capozzi/inside2.jpg

[Cpl Ledanek]

if going air-cooled on Stacker 830SE, is this recommended? the top/ceiling fan, should it blow hot/trapped air out or cool air in?:confused:
thanks in advance:up:

[taowulf]

I am still thinking about flipping the tray in my STC-T01. Just depends where the comp end up in my final desk configuration.

it is a nice option to have.

[Croak in BC]

if going air-cooled on Stacker 830SE, is this recommended? the top/ceiling fan, should it blow hot/trapped air out or cool air in?:confused:
thanks in advance:up:

For air cooling it depends more on your video card setup, if you need a little extra room for big GPU heatsinks it can be helpful. It'll also might help a little bit keeping the CPU below the radiant heat generated by the video cards, north bridge, etc. But it probably won't help much in real world cooling, it's more about giving you mounting options for various components.

Either way you mount the board, I'd recommend the top fan be exhaust on a Stacker 83x. It's too indirect and diffused a path to do much good as an intake unless you really crank up the RPM, and being offset from the motherboard doesn't help either. But it'll do just fine as an exhaust, even at low RPM.

It's doubly important to make it an exhaust if you flip the motherboard, because now your rear exhaust is really only exhausting air from the bottom part of the case.

[Rocket]

I flipped mine upsidedown mostly just for looks.

Its always sad when you have a fancy looking high dollar videocard that no one can see unless your standing on your head..lol

http://img70.imageshack.us/img70/1428/hpim0110mf0.th.jpg (http://img70.imageshack.us/my.php?image=hpim0110mf0.jpg)

[kinghong1970]

i flipped it cus i put my computer to my left, and against the wall... no sense in having a window and having it face the wall...

[taowulf]

i flipped it cus i put my computer to my left, and against the wall... no sense in having a window and having it face the wall...

Depends on how good your wire management is...you might want to window the back side. :cool:

[Nephilim]

Annoying thing about inverted motherboards is a lot of the cheap heatpipes are affected by gravity.

On my asus P5N32-E SLI I had to replace both NB and SB stock cooling because the chips were literally being cooked by heat from the CPU PWM.

[Cpl Ledanek]

@Croak in BC or anyone with Stacker 830...are the cables/wires from the front power switches/USB/Firewire...long enough to be routed behind the mobo for a mobo that has all the connection at the bottom of mobo...:confused:
are any of these Techflex Reflex sleeving (http://www.performance-pcs.com/catalog/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=229) necessary if I got my window open...hence trying to cover it up with as much side fan as possible:rolleyes: