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No. Theoretically, water is coolest when coming out of the rad, but putting the rad before or after the blocks won't make a notiable difference at all. Water temperature evens out (with the exception of maybe .1C) in a closed loop.
Try and order your blocks so that tubing is minimized.
And for my PITA that took all day, i modded the top for the radiator, and heres the results.
Note*: This took all day, i'm tired and will try cable management tomorrow, as well as put this best in the floor beside my desk
Oh yeah, the pictures aren't that great. I'll get into the fancy settings on the camera tomorrow.
Alots more to do, need to put the PCI cooler on too.
Imagine, three (3) 133CFM fans on full blast without a fan controller :rofl:
I need to add length to them, won't reach the 3 1/2" bay :shakes:
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nice man!
Awesome job with the rad! Please do at lease some minimal cable management. It looks really messy now :down:
i spy deltas, cheap but very effective. however after 2 yrs i coudnt handle the noise. they over powered my tv, and speakers .lol my roomate always knew when i woke up cause he said he'd hear the jet spool up.Quote:
Originally Posted by ThatGuy16
loud yes , powerful yes, i have a 160cfm 92mm for :banana::banana::banana::banana:s n giggles ....i can chop carrots with it. careful with them things took the tip clear off 2 fingers once
Thanks
Cable management, is my today's project. lol
And those a Scythe Ultra Kaze fans. I just finished splicing them all together making one plug, and extended it to reach the fan controller. Thank god!
I am so getting this case... I got like 10 thousand best buys in my area, so I am not settling for anything other than 50 bucks. It's not that much more than having the broken front panel replaced on my nzxt lexa... I will get a side panel though, but i'll wait for it. Just a quick question, are all the fans in this case 120mm?
Yes, all of the stock fan mounts are 120mm.
I'd be careful with the Ultra Kaze's, they are sleeve bearings and they may not like horizontal positions.Quote:
Originally Posted by ThatGuy16
Dothan Ala has 5 left in stock called to confirm, the manager on Duty would not budge off the 112.00 priced waited until he got off work and talked to the Asst manager and She priced matched the Tallahassee FL Store which had 2 left for 49.99 + tax the case is huge almost did'nt fit in the trunk of my full sized Ford. Now if Asus Would come off those Crosshair II MBs.
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I thought installing the front hd bay (w/ fan) would help with the higher temps, but so far nothing.. currently looking at the antec 1200 as a replacement. This case rocks, but its providing nowhere near enough airflow for my tastes.. almost nothing on the side (that exhaust thing is pathetic) and nothing on top, unless you mod it.. $48 though im not complaining
I understand the frustration with air flow through the case, which is why I purchased for my RF case the windowed panel that had the vented insert in it....and then finally got rid of the "exhaust" fan, the one mounted in the box, and moved that exhaust fan to the vent on the side panel. (I noticed that the fan in exhaust barely managed to move any significant amounts of air out of the case, even though I'd drilled out the mesh on the rear of the case......what I really noticed was that the fan bounced more air back into the case from the inside of the box vs. moving the air out the rear....a very poor design, imho. And it worked no better set up as an intake fan, either.)Quote:
Originally Posted by triple
That single change on that fan's placement did wonders for moving out air.....but then again, I am WC'ing and have three 120's....all S-Flex "F's"....on top blowing into the case along with the front 120 fan (which was changed from the Lian-Li fan to an S-Flex "E" fan), so two 120's (both Zalman F3's) providing exhaust probably is just barely enough.
But, as I sit and wait for my EK blocks for my 3870 cards, the move of that one fan from the box exhaust to the side panel dropped the gpu temps almost 10C......so I guess it is doing a lot of good after all. (Primary gpu temp dropped, on idle, from low 60's to 50-52C....the cards are the Asus 3870's with the heatsink/fan that is NOT vented out the rear of the case.)
It's just me or the graphics card is seriously bended :eek:?Quote:
Originally Posted by sbinh
no it's the camera doing thatQuote:
Originally Posted by Xel'Naga
No, I think it's bent too.
Triple - is there a part number with that bay Lian Li grill thing? I cant find it.
It's a 3 into 4 type thing. Takes three 5.25 bays and turns them into four harddrive bays with a fan.
Like this.
You can also get something like this that is just a fan mount.
wheee I checked online and all BB were supposedly out of stock. I went anyways to get my friend a graduation present and bamn what ya know a rocketfish case for $47 tehehe.
So i've not really done anything to my case yet.
But This is how she sits now.
I've been very happy with it. Everything is cool and the case with all 120's is fairly quiet.
Pretty thrilled with the whole deal, thanks to this place I found out about it :)
And once I can find some good feet that board under the case will go. My stupid shelf to the left keeps moving to the right although I have leveled it a few times due to the way my desk is setup.
(this used to be a 3 Piece desk but my brother needed a desk so I broke it a part and brought him the other 1/2.
Something I regret doing now as i need the room.
does anyone know when these will be back in stock at best buy?? they been out for a while...
They won't be. The cases were sold on closeout at the $48 price, so seeing as BB closed out the case (ie, got rid of it), I highly doubt you'll see it return at all.Quote:
Originally Posted by WhiteFireDragon
Earlier this week I got the last one in Central NC, and the guy who worked at BB said that they weren't ordering any more :(
As others have said, BB was closing them out and they don't have any plans to restock....in fact I looked on the BB website and the case isn't there anymore.
I had my wife check, and she just picked on up at the Albuquerque BB. $50!!!!
I am travelling, so I wont be able to do anything with it for a while. But its there!
I was pretty excited. I didnt think I would be able to find one.
There is 1 in Santa Fe also.
Budwise, what radiator grille do you have on top? I've been having trouble finding something other than a fancy Kikbox product for a Thermochill.