Silverstone CW02 mods + best filter medium + DIY filtration box

[m0r7if3r]

I'd be interested to see if someone could make an ionizer that fed into the res. Should be as easy as poarizing plates in front of the res right?

[NaeKuh]

I'd be interested to see if someone could make an ionizer that fed into the res. Should be as easy as poarizing plates in front of the res right?

no... trust me.. we talked about this in depth..

it came down to, you would get ozone poisoning, b4 u could get the ionizer to be effective.

[Serpentarius]

i found out that, any mesh filter with a dash of the silicon lubricant spray is good for trapping dust.

maybe you guys should give it a try. don't use oil however, it's messy

[Hannibal Lecter]

There is something else that is interesting is this discussion about filters. We spend a lot of time researching the best fans, we spend a lot of money buying them, why would we want to completely alter their performance and the noise they produce with a filter?

Dust is evil for sure, but some filters are restrictive and since most of them are already behind mesh or holes (which by the way filter dust as well) they at best half the airflow of the carefully selected fan. And by creating additional impedance, they add more turbulence and thus noise...

Knowing that then one can decide whether cleaning up more often is worse that lower performance.

[R37ribution]

I know you guys aren't fans of mesh filters but I've had some good xp with this Lian Li 120mm Filter Mount.

This coupled with Serpentarious' comment about silicon lub should work wonders... and if that isn't enough you could always stick on some DustX on top of this mount which would be easy to replace and collect the finer dust that the mesh filter doesn't.

i found out that, any mesh filter with a dash of the silicon lubricant spray is good for trapping dust.

maybe you guys should give it a try. don't use oil however, it's messy

It sounds like my setup is similar to NaeKuh (as far as loudness goes) - I'm using 120mm a Delta 210 CFM fan. Apparently the fan calls for 30 watts and it let some smoke out of my R2G when I hooked it up to the mobo PWM connector. The board still ran and OC'ed to 4.2Ghz but the VTT was no longer stable (fluctuated +/- .05v). I ended up buying an Akasa PWM Splitter so I could pull power from the PSU and still use the PWM on my new R3G. Sourcing the power direct from the psu made my vcore and vtt more stable than with my previous fans