Ways to cool my oem pre-built down

[Lil Chillbil]

Specs in sig, its an asus pre-build oem case and its quite shit. The thing is built solid like a tank but the dumbass engineers (slaps jj with a fish) thought it would be a great idea to put a gt 640 3gb, 350 watt ac/bell psu that prolly costs more to manufacture than its worth and ZERO casefans/airflow. 

 

 

here is what I started with

 

 

 

I was able to game fine on this, but quickly got bored and decided to upgrade it a bit with a new gpu/psu and a new hdd from an external

 

 

This is what I ended up with after almost $300 more poured into my baby 

 

 

 

This was pretty early into the upgrade and I got some cable ties etc. to where its not "that" bad I have nothing to work with here in terms of hiding cables. So after using it for about a month I discovered that the thing was now overheating. my 1st thing was to move the cat away from the airvent to see if that quelled the situation

I took the caseside off while I was playing far cry 3 and watching those temps drop from 85 degrees C! to 49C in less than 2 minutes I was gobsmacked. I called up asus and said some bad words I was so mad at the engineer who designed this.

 

So now here is the situation, I need to somehow mount a fan into one of the ports in the system, and was wondering if there is anyway to tell if its a 80mm or a 90mm and if its better to have a single intake or a single exhaust. And recomendations on a led fan under $15 

 

 

 

[helping]

get on your knees and blow on it.

 

 

adding some case fans would be a start, you might also consider trying to mod a fan into the side. You could place a rather large one and that should have a prettty big impact, i.e. 180, 200mm fan. Flip your PSU upside down if your case allows it.

 

There shouldn't be too many clearance issues either sine you have stock HS. Modding a fan into the base of the case will also help greatly.

[Hans Christian | Teri]

So now here is the situation, I need to somehow mount a fan into one of the ports in the system, and was wondering if there is anyway to tell if its a 80mm or a 90mm and if its better to have a single intake or a single exhaust. And recomendations on a led fan under $15 

 

You could try to.... ehhhh.... measure it?

 

On another note, interesting how they didn't bother to solder half of the RAM slots on the motherboard.

[Lil Chillbil]

You could try to.... ehhhh.... measure it?

 

On another note, interesting how they didn't bother to solder half of the RAM slots on the motherboard.

 

I know but I was able to get 16 gigs onto the thing so could care less about that as the i5 never uses more than 7 gigs. 

[ScubaChase]

get on your knees and blow on it.

 

 

adding some case fans would be a start, you might also consider trying to mod a fan into the side. You could place a rather large one and that should have a prettty big impact, i.e. 180, 200mm fan. Flip your PSU upside down if your case allows it.

 

There shouldn't be too many clearance issues either sine you have stock HS. Modding a fan into the base of the case will also help greatly.

Don't Have A Dirty Mind! Don't Have A Dirty Mind! Don't Have A Dirty Mind! Don't Have A Dirty Mind!

[_ASSASSIN_]

no joke fix that cable management son

[tristan1035]

Put a Hyper 212 Evo with 2 fans and having them both blowing out the back of the case or into the case.

[Missioncode]

Add fans here and here

[Frosty]

You could totally transplant the whole shebang into a real case, if you were so inclined. I'm sure that is a regular sized M-ATX motherboard. A real case is a pretty good investment, if you ask me.

[Lil Chillbil]

Add fans here and here

 

can you recomend me 2 fans? they are both 90mm btw I measured it. 

 

 

@_Assasin_ This is what my cable management looks like now

 

 

 

 

The damn thing is just a metal box, no way to run any real wires thru there, I schoved a few in the top 5 and a quarter bay and ran the 24 bin behind the drive cage and that is the end of any cable management solutions. And yeah I have been running it with no sidepanel on 

[Unhelpful]

get on your knees and blow on it.

 

-sigh- *zip* Oh wait nvm.

[Lord Pantaloons]

add fans

[CwGoh]

I had the same case. The back fan is 80 or 92mm just get a Noctua NF-B9 PWM and place it there. You can also place 120 or 140mm fans near the GPU. They will just stand on their own. Also get a few cable ties and improve your cable management. 

[TopplesS]

You could totally transplant the whole shebang into a real case, if you were so inclined. I'm sure that is a regular sized M-ATX motherboard. A real case is a pretty good investment, if you ask me.

+1

There's really not much else you can do with OEM sweat boxes. Add as many fans as possible, maybe try an aftermarket CPU cooler to help reduce ambient temps in the case and keep the box itself out of corners and under desks - put it somewhere open and has fresh air breezing through/past it.

But as Frosty said, try transplanting into a new case - just check for the front I/O ports/switches/LED jumpers on the MB to make sure they will fit a standard case... Can't really see ASUS doing that with their boards but I know pretty much all the OEM manufacturers like to make their cases/boards proprietary.

[LogicalDrm]

Add both intake and exhaust fans if you want it to be cooler. I think you might be able to fit 80mm->120mm converter atleast to back slot. Also you could make hole on side panel and stick 200/230mm fan into to it. If GPU clears it ok. Don't forget to add dust filters. And yeah, get ruler and measure length between screw holes.

 

http://www.amazon.com/Nexus-80mm-92mm-120mm-Converter/dp/B002C7IQ1O/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1386682022&sr=8-1&keywords=fan+converter

[Lil Chillbil]

so now my temps plummeted once I installed a single exhaust fan into the system.

 

 

with some new purdy lights as well

 

 

 

@_Assasin_ what do you think of my improvements to the cable management? 

[Lord Pantaloons]

[Lil Chillbil]

 

Not as bad as when I decided that I could do networking...

 

[-rascal-]

Due to the stock CPU cooler, your open-design GPU, and your power supply being at the top, install two additional 80mm (or are they 92mm?) fans and set them up as intake (blowing fresh air into the system).

The power supply will act as an exhaust fan.

 

 

Also, you could jerry-rig a another 80mm / 120mm / 140mm fan to the side panel if you wanted. Make it an and intake as well.

Note: you may have to enlarge the "screw holes" with a drill bit to match the diameter of regular case fan screws.

 

I did exactly this for an Acer computer that I have....and a bit more (puttin ALLLLLLL dem mesh areas as possible fan placements)

 

Uhh...older pics but still....basically it.

 

God that computer is nowhere from stock other than the motherboard....

• New PSU
• Radeon HD 4850 (vs stock integrated X1250)
• Replaced CPU (old was a Athlon 64 X2 4400+, replaced with a Athlon 64 X2 6000+)
• swapped out the existing 1 or 2GB of 533MHz RAM for 4GB of Corsair XMS2 800MHz RAM
• 500GB replacement HDD (old 320GB crapped out)
• Bunch of fans
• 5.25" bay fan controller
• Replaced stock aluminum-only heatsink with the included stock aluminum+copper heatpipe heatsink from my Phenom II X6 1090T CPU