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hi

 

i dont like using the stock fans that most cases come with, so i have 6 extra pc case fans not being used in any pc.

does anyone have any idea what to do with them? like any projects or something...

 

thanks

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I use an old 12 cm fan with an external molex power adapter as desktop fan in the sommer when it gets hot... aimed directly at myself...

 

you can also build yourself a DYI air condition/cooler... 

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If you do custom watercooling you can save $$$ by getting a 6*120mm radiator and brute force cooling with all that surface area

Want to custom loop?  Ask me more if you are curious

 

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4 minutes ago, Gyawdyr said:

hi

 

i dont like using the stock fans that most cases come with, so i have 6 extra pc case fans not being used in any pc.

does anyone have any idea what to do with them? like any projects or something...

 

thanks

Make a DIY drone that probably wont fly.

OR

 

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Wire and 9v battery and a button to one and you have a portable fan.

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38 minutes ago, Damascus said:

If you do custom watercooling you can save $$$ by getting a 6*120mm radiator and brute force cooling with all that surface area

Sorry for the funny marker but I was just imagening myself standing in front of my machine "brute force" cooling it screaming on the top of my lungs "YOU'LL GO SUB ZERO!!! DAM THING I BRING YOU THERE!!!"

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Anghammarad : Asrock Taichi x570, AMD Ryzen 7 5800X @4900 MHz. 32 GB DDR4 3600, some NVME SSDs, Gainward Phoenix RTX 3070TI

 

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System 3 "Inskah" AsRock Fatal1ty Z77 Pro, Core I5 3570k @4300, 16 GB Ram DDR3 2133, some SSD, and a 2 TB HDD each, Gainward Phantom 760GTX.

 

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(Abit Fatal1ty FP9 IN SLI, C2Duo E8400, 6 GB Ram DDR2 800, far too less diskspace, Gainward Phantom 560 GTX broken need fixing)

 

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Save a few. You never know when they'll come in handy later.

 

I saved all my stock fans and I ended up making use of them months later in my wife's PC.

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I would build a desk fan it would look super cool.

Ex frequent user here, still check in here occasionally. I stopped being a weeb in 2018 lol

 

For a reply please quote or  @Eduard the weeb me :D

 

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I recently got a Thermaltake V250 and wanted to add some fans to it for better aesthetics. I got 3 white 120mm fans and put them in the front, then took the 3 Thermaltake fans that were originally in the front and moved them to the top and rear panel. I did this because I wanted EVERY fan to have rgb and I also wanted to have exhausts on the top for better airflow. I was then left with the boring old non-rgb fan that was originally a rear exhaust fan. I took a look at my single tower single fan cpu cooler and thought "wouldn't it be nice if I just slapped this onto the back of that?", and I did. The screw holes were closed off so the mounting brackets ended up being too far from the cooler. I grabbed some nearby zipties and connected the stock Vetroo cooler to the Thermaltake one I added. I routed the zipties through the fins on the cooler and put them at the very top and bottom of the brackets so the fan wouldn't move around. Sorry for typing so much, I'm a bit of a storyteller. TL;DR: if you have a single fan cooler and want a little bit more airflow you can always just take an extra fan and slap it onto the cooler, if you have enough space for it, of course. 

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