PSU mod

[PaliteArchitect]

Hi guys.

 

I have a struggle...cant make decision,

 

L I paint,mod and do all kinds of nonsense to my pc. 

Currently I run 4930k at 4.4ghz at 1.37. EVGA FTW 1070. 4 drives, 6 case fans, and etc. Z79 Deluxe ASUS motherboard. +Corsair CX750m powersupply.

 

It is cooled by CM nepton240m (restored after my friend broke the tubes, I replaced those with 4mm thick silicon tubes).

 

This all is fit into core 1500 (fractal design case) YES it is mATX. YES I managed to fit ATX board in mATX case. Well I had my stupid reasons (cuz I wanted to take my pc as hand luggage in airplane)

 

 

As you can see on photos gpu is quite close to psu. I was thinking about fliping psu and its fan. This way it would act as intake. 

Considering that psu fan is barely working,  i can support gpu cooling as its fans would helpto suck that air 

I am also planing to replace the fan with more powerfull one.

 

Where am I wrong? Do you think it is bad idea (I would like to hear arguments or some links to tests) 

[W-L]

12 minutes ago, PaliteArchitect said:

Hi guys.

I have a struggle...cant make decision,

L I paint,mod and do all kinds of nonsense to my pc. 

Currently I run 4930k at 4.4ghz at 1.37. EVGA FTW 1070. 4 drives, 6 case fans, and etc. Z79 Deluxe ASUS motherboard. +Corsair CX750m powersupply.

It is cooled by CM nepton240m (restored after my friend broke the tubes, I replaced those with 4mm thick silicon tubes).

This all is fit into core 1500 (fractal design case) YES it is mATX. YES I managed to fit ATX board in mATX case. Well I had my stupid reasons (cuz I wanted to take my pc as hand luggage in airplane)

As you can see on photos gpu is quite close to psu. I was thinking about fliping psu and its fan. This way it would act as intake. 

Considering that psu fan is barely working,  i can support gpu cooling as its fans would helpto suck that air 

I am also planing to replace the fan with more powerfull one.

Where am I wrong? Do you think it is bad idea (I would like to hear arguments or some links to tests) 

Why not just get a SFX PSU so you don't have the issue with the PSU getting in the way of the motherboard?

[PaliteArchitect]

50 minutes ago, W-L said:

Why not just get a SFX PSU so you don't have the issue with the PSU getting in the way of the motherboard?

that is not the issue I am trying to solve.

[W-L]

1 hour ago, PaliteArchitect said:

that is not the issue I am trying to solve.

If your talking about the GPU there is ample room between it and the PSU so it's not a problem at all. Are you getting high temps at all?

[PaliteArchitect]

Just now, W-L said:

If your talking about the GPU there is ample room between it and the PSU so it's not a problem at all. Are you getting high temps at all?

nope

temps are fine

 

Just scientific curiosity

 

plus maintaining positive air pressure would be a bonus

[W-L]

10 minutes ago, PaliteArchitect said:

nope

temps are fine

Just scientific curiosity

plus maintaining positive air pressure would be a bonus

Since you already have a bottom intake fan I assume, feeding the GPU that would be more than adequate to keep it supplied with fresh air. As for positive pressure assuming you have two front intakes and the top and rear are exhaust you can run the intakes fans at a slightly higher to ensure it maintains positive air pressure. 

[PaliteArchitect]

5 minutes ago, W-L said:

Since you already have a bottom intake fan I assume, feeding the GPU that would be more than adequate to keep it supplied with fresh air. As for positive pressure assuming you have two front intakes and the top and rear are exhaust you can run the intakes fans at a slightly higher to ensure it maintains positive air pressure. 

I have 2 sp120 corsair

Bottom fan is cm silencio 120

Rear: noctua nf-f12(painted multiple times) 

Top rad: corsair sp120(stock h100 ones)

 

Still not enough pressure

Increasing speeds even further will make it noisy, I set up profiles already to keep my cpu under 63 cel and gpu under 65cel

 

Plus this additional airflow would support 2nd gpu fan

 

I do plan to buy FD define c and FD s36 liquid cooler in next couple of months

[PaliteArchitect]

I just need to know how it might affect my psu health

[W-L]

16 minutes ago, PaliteArchitect said:

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Yeah you may want to consider swapping the Corsair fans if you want thing to be dead silent, while they are decent they aren't amazing fans in the noise department. As for the PSU it wouldn't really be any issue for it as long as it's a decent unit with good quality capacitors and components a little bit of heat won't hurt it. In this case using it as an extra intake would put a little bit more heat from the unit into the case.