@ andressergio
Also some serious points to be had here!! Total win in my books! love it. :)
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@ andressergio
Also some serious points to be had here!! Total win in my books! love it. :)
@ trans am
...Yes! That is all.
before:
http://public.bay.livefilestore.com/...01b.jpg?psid=1
^ space for 24x 3.5" HDDs (with PSU) :D
after:
http://fyez6q.bay.livefilestore.com/....38.jpg?psid=1
^ space for 32 3.5" HDDs......not finished cause I still need to mount the PSU somewhere! :lol:
was wondering where you would put the PSUQuote:
Originally Posted by tiro_uspsss
I have the identical case. and currently have 15 harddrives in there.
still room for 7 more. and have dual PSU in there as well.
Edit. I modded the bottom front to have 2 120mm fans and put 2 120mm fans between each row of harddrives.
I found the harddrives wern't getting enough airflow as it was. with your configuration and if you put 24 hardrives in the bottom even if they are all green drives i still think the temps of the dives will go above 50Deg c easy.
Just not enough air flow.
I'd like to see some pics of the fan mods u've done :)Quote:
Originally Posted by MadHacker
as for my temps, they are fine ;) - in the 'before' config, there were 3x 120x38* mm fans, 3K rpm, 45dB, 133cfm :up: the highest hdd temp was...~43c iirc... in the new config I lose the centre fan.. but will see if I can add a 92mm fan below the 120mm @ rear, then see how temps are :up:
In the picture you only had 6 harddrives, that may change once you have enough to block airflowQuote:
Originally Posted by tiro_uspsss
but with that much fan power it could be fine...
I try to keep my machine as quite as posible.
I'll take pictures tomorrow and post them.
yeah true.. yeah this is my fileserver, so noise is (as u've probably guessed) not a priority! :D :up:Quote:
Originally Posted by MadHacker
here is an old picture I found.
http://inlinethumb64.webshots.com/44...600x600Q85.jpg
http://inlinethumb56.webshots.com/47...600x600Q85.jpg
Also a pic of my old rad box
http://inlinethumb28.webshots.com/45...600x600Q85.jpg
I since put 5 more 2TB drives in.
As i said i'll take better pictures tomorrow
ahhh, I see what u have done - *very nice! :yepp: :up:Quote:
Originally Posted by MadHacker
so u would have had to move on or both of those HDD column cages to accomodate those fans in the middle right? cause there isnt space in between by default..
u must have had some serious GPUs in there to justify 2x PSUs (?)
I removed the internal front bracket and mounted the fans directly to the front, there is exactly enough room two 120mm fans.Quote:
Originally Posted by tiro_uspsss
as for moving the the HDD columns, i only had to move the front one to make room for the fans in the middle.
I could have moved both of them closer to the front, which would have given me more room for the power supplies, but it fit as is so i left it.
as for running 2 power supplies. initialy I had only 1 PS and the air comming out of the back was very warm. adding a second one made it run cooler.
as well as afterwards overall power usage dropped by 20W with the same components.(measured from my UPS).
I run the motherboard(Q6600 OC 3.6Ghz) off of one, and Hardrives(15 of them), watercooling (2 MCP600pumps & 2 120mm fans) & case fans off of the other.
so I copied your mod :DQuote:
Originally Posted by MadHacker
http://fyez6q.bay.livefilestore.com/...%5D.jpg?psid=1
tho I have a question.. I have noted that the front of the case gets incredibly warm; if I feel the outside panels: sides, front (behind door, where the fan intake is), the case itself is nice & warm.. not so with the rest of the case.. I didnt mount mine with anything - I simply wedged them in place. Nor did I cut the front of my case up - the 2 fans must suck their air in thru the original front vents. I'm beginning to think that the vibrations caused by the fans jammed up against the 'floor' panel & the panel above them, is so much that it is creating warmth! :eek:
not sure what to do now :(
further more, I am amazed that, despite the fans being powerful, noisy 120x38 mm fans, that so much air flow is restricted by the stupid HDD racks :down:
I havent installed any programs that monitor temps yet, so not sure what my HDD temps are :shrug:
i zap strapped my fans to the HD cage so they are on there tight.Quote:
Originally Posted by tiro_uspsss
I know that is why i had to mod my case as it was.Quote:
Originally Posted by tiro_uspsss
creating larger vent holes in the front helped a lot..
however i had to move my power and reset switch.
I monitor my HD temps (home page on my server) so i can keep an eye on themQuote:
Originally Posted by tiro_uspsss
40-42 deg C is what i try to stay under. 45Deg C gets to warm. I have my alarms go of when it hits 50Deg C
if the drives aren't raided Speedfan will tell you harddrive temps.
so a buddy of mine had a genius idea of using heat reflective tape on the bottom of our h50's/h70's to get rid of the heat soak from our 6970's. Oddly enough, it dropped the idle temps 3-4 degrees :D
http://i966.photobucket.com/albums/a...10228-2150.jpg
http://i966.photobucket.com/albums/a...10228-2149.jpg
http://i966.photobucket.com/albums/a...10228-2150.jpg
Is it possible that with the heat reflective tape that its just letting more air go through the rad and less air escaping out the sides?Quote:
Originally Posted by doonsy
perhaps putting tape all the way around the fan might help some more.
I agree, 100% I plan on wrapping the rest tomorrow.Quote:
Originally Posted by MadHacker
That was me :PQuote:
Originally Posted by doonsy
Here's mine. Definitely helped putting some on the mobo side as my Vreg's get insanely hot due to my o/c.
but wouldn't you want to dissipate the heat from the Vreg's instead of reflecting the heat back down onto them?Quote:
Originally Posted by deanob
here is a ghetto mod direct from Asus
Asus motherboard box doubles as a PC caseQuote:
Holds the motherboard snug for shipping and is constructed so other component can be added
I am using a piece of foam to hold an intake fan in place of my Thermaltake V4 case:
Please excuse the terrible quality, my phone doesn't exactly feature a high end camera.
The 5.25 drive covers on the Thermaltake case are actually foam, so they act as a filter. If you place your hand in front of the case you can actually feel quite a bit of cool air entering the case. I also noticed the foam insert vibrating a lot, which indicated that it is at least doing something to reduce the noise in my case :p
lol :up:Quote:
Originally Posted by smee
my maybe not so ghetto, but homemade cooling solutions;
260gtx standard cooler milled down, and tapped holes appropriate for swiftech mcw60 universal block. had 2 of these running in sli for a year, then decided to remove card nr. 2 because of the vitually non-existant performance boost. decided to install it in a s775 dell, and tapped 2 more holes to mount a cpu cooler from another dell on it.
Quote:
Originally Posted by smee
WHAT?? Thats sick dude!! :D:shocked:
Nice. I think you'd be better off cutting a hole straight through there though so the block goes direct die.Quote:
Originally Posted by BSUA
Man, i love this thread.
How do you get rid of the FFFd up cooling system on radeon 4870x2? You ghetto mod it.
http://img27.imageshack.us/img27/5466/ghetto2.th.jpg
http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/7316/ghetto1.th.jpg
^awsome!!!!!
A frontal view of my case and fan controller.
Yeah the plastic wrap is goofy, I did that because I was experimenting with pressure, I had to screw that up because I have no front panel to turn on my pc..., I reach through the top of my case where there's an 80mm hole to turn it on...
I just haven't removed the rest of the plastic wrap yet, it ran quite a bit cooler when she was sealed up though.
I was gonna use hot glue, but I thought plastic wrap was a better choice, which it was at the time.
http://img849.imageshack.us/img849/784/hpim0789.jpg
This is the top view of my fan controller, I modded it, the reason why I'm posting this stuff here ;).
All those caps are rubycon mbz's 1500uf 16v.
I added a coil to the power input because of the way the controller works, it adds resistance to the ground to do it's controlling, so the only way of adding a filter to it without having to add one to every chan was to add on there where I did.
http://img197.imageshack.us/img197/9940/hpim0806q.jpg
This is my stock cooler with 2x delta tfb's zipped tied to it lol.
Didn't help get me stable though, they are setup at a voltage level that's just about silent, my panaflo 120mm on the back of the case is louder.
http://img685.imageshack.us/img685/2213/hpim0812.jpg
I tried to find the dvi -> vga adapter that I modded a while back but I don't know where that is at the moment.
I broke a pin off to prevent it from reading the edid as an experiment, that way I didn't have to mod any cables and end up regretting it or something.
Btw the dates are way off on my pics, I just took them a min ago...
That's kind of lame...
Sorry the pics are so blurry.
My cam goes in and out of focus all the time, I have to take 10 pics of each view just to find one pic that is ok'ish.,
Usually I get cleaner shots then that though :\.
Had to take pics while she was off because my cam flips out when there's uv in the shot, all my leds are uv...
Holy Dust Balls
:eek:
Lol, if you think that's bad you should of seen it a month ago before I cleaned it.
I could of made a dust bunny shirt from all the times that I've cleaned it.
I definitely need some sort of filtering, either for my room or my pc.
It really sucks having a transparent case where you can see all that.
I don't recommend acrylic...
If I can get enough lego's together I'll build one out of those.
Either that or find a decent steal case that has alot of 5&1/4 drive bays.
This tread is awesome! So many different innovations!:)
so I have no job atm... = no $$$
& I was sick of not having a black interior to my case.... I had some 3mm MDF & 2 cans of black spray paint lying around... :D
before:
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-D...0/IMG_6682.JPG
after:
PC off -
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-k...0/IMG_6687.JPG
PC on -
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-p...0/IMG_6691.JPG
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-s...0/IMG_6693.JPG
I'm happy with the result :)
Holy mods
WOW!!! Hope them bits of tape stay put!!!
Awesome thread, so many creative people here :)