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Case Airflow Guides - Tried???

dmmsta
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9 hours ago, dmmsta said:

having worked more on datacentre based servers more than any other hardware in the last 5-10yrs, I'm wondering if "guides" in side a desktop case would help cooling.

Forcusing airflow onto the key componants rather than just allowing air to move "front to back".

I was thinking case wide "guides" could be imployed to "focus" the airflow to the GPU & CPU.

I'm guessing that this is all considered by case manufacturers, but wondered if anyone has thought about this, and "tinkered" with the idea...?

having worked more on datacentre based servers more than any other hardware in the last 5-10yrs, I'm wondering if "guides" in side a desktop case would help cooling.

Forcusing airflow onto the key componants rather than just allowing air to move "front to back".

I was thinking case wide "guides" could be imployed to "focus" the airflow to the GPU & CPU.

I'm guessing that this is all considered by case manufacturers, but wondered if anyone has thought about this, and "tinkered" with the idea...?

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The problem with that is it does introduce turbulence which is noise to us.聽Airflow should move front to back in every case that has fans at the front and back. If you have hot air rising in your case, you need to turn your fans up 馃槃

I have played with all kinds of configurations, you can only do so much with consumer fans.. 60cfm is a joke聽馃憤

Once you start using 120x38s, or slim industrials聽then things get interesting, but they are usually a little loud.

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9 hours ago, dmmsta said:

having worked more on datacentre based servers more than any other hardware in the last 5-10yrs, I'm wondering if "guides" in side a desktop case would help cooling.

Forcusing airflow onto the key componants rather than just allowing air to move "front to back".

I was thinking case wide "guides" could be imployed to "focus" the airflow to the GPU & CPU.

I'm guessing that this is all considered by case manufacturers, but wondered if anyone has thought about this, and "tinkered" with the idea...?

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Just now, Ralfi said:

LOL I was just going to ask if this was a thing. Gotto check that video out.

its been around for sometime but airflow in pc cases these days have improved so much that there's no real need for this anymore.聽

Its still a great mini project to do at home.

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38 minutes ago, Kinda Bottlenecked said:

its been around for sometime but airflow in pc cases these days have improved so much that there's no real need for this anymore.聽

Its still a great mini project to do at home.

Oh there鈥檚 no way I鈥檇 do it. I鈥檓 just curious 馃槅

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Ahh YouTube.聽

every crazy (or not so) idea on the planet recorded for viewing pleasure.聽

don鈥檛 know why I didn鈥檛 look there first!

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