Trip wrote:So air could still go in around the intake fan?

No, not really.

Now that the temperature has dropped decently here over the last couple of days, my temps are much better.

As I write this, I'm at 35C CPU / 23C System.

Pretty sweet.

Trip wrote:When you put the intake fan on, did you seal the area around the intake fan?

Only on the outside front of the case, behind the bezel, as shown in the photographs above.

I didnt seal around the fan mounting clip on the inside of the case.

I think I'm going to take back the Vantec fan, and get the 36cfm Zalman 120mm, since this Vantec Stealth is ANYTHING BUT "stealthy". If you're going for a 36-ish cfm 120mm fan I'd strongly consider the Nexus fan. Okay, it's a rather ugly shade of orange, but it is also very very quiet, even at 12V....

Well, after much more fiddling, tweaking, and frustration, I have a setup which I think will work for me. I re-installed the Vantec up front, and put it on the fan bus controller, turned it all the way down (to maintain a high pressure differential as previously discussed), turned down my Zalman HSF...

Most of us silence enthusiast would be very happy with 51/30C temperatures. Should be well within safe limits. True, those aren't *bad* temperatures, but still not what I'm looking for, as I know I can get significantly lower. It can be tricky to find a util that is good enough to figure out how to...

I think it's probably a combination of all things. 1) Adding intake fan = lower pressure differential = less total air flow through case 2) Intake fan = extra hard drive cooling = more warm air in case 3) 1) + 2) = greatly increased overall temps This board here is an NF7-S, so I probably have the s...

Well there you have it. I wasnt under the impression I would be moving 132 cfm through there, but I was thinking that a mild draw up front would help bring in more cool air. Now that I really think about it in the context of the information provided, one would be decreasing the pressure differential...

Why not try negative case pressure? If you are concerned about dust, maybe you can filter the other opennings in the case. Currently it is running on a negative pressure setup. Just the stock fan is in place, and all the front is sealed up with HVAC tape, as you can see in the pics above. So far, t...

I'll suggest that it's the five drives that are in effect blocking the airflow from the front fan, creating turbulence and flow resistance. However, you should still check what the temperatures of your drives are when running the different fan configurations. The added cooling of the drives is like...

...since the hard disks generate the same amount of heat regardless of airflow, I would think that having more airflow should result in lower temps. Perhaps without a front fan, the heat rises and is evacuated by the PSU fan. With a front fan, it might be blown over the case temp. sensor. That's wh...

The fan is blowing against the filter, right?

Could you rearrange things so that it is sucking through the filter?

Here's a couple of pics to show you the filtering setup.

I'll bet the filter is impeding the front fan's air. Air sucks through easily w/o a fan, but air blown against the filter is partly pushed back, creating turbulence. So the impedance of the fan combined with its turbulence is worse than no fan. The fan is blowing against the filter, right? Could yo...

I guess the front fan just impedes airflow. Your front intake is so open and the pressure in the case so low, that the front fan doesn't help. That's my guess. You say you're using a filter? Ya, I always put filtering material in my intakes... I just put in those heat register filters you buy at Ho...

It's a Vantec Stealth! It sucks so much it makes temps worse where other fans wouldn't! :lol: Okay, okay--in all seriousness, any chance you could take pics of your rig and post them up for us to see? It will help us quite a bit in diagnosing your air flow problem. The Vantec was the cheapest in my...

Hi Everyone, I just bought an Antec SLK3700AMB for myself, and have decided to stick with it for now, despite my reservations in this thread. As an aside, that was my first post in these forums, and I didn't get the SPCR customary welcome... I'm cut.. cut to the quick... *sniff*... :D Anyhow, I went...

I didn't quite get your problem. Are you feeling that your case is filled up and you need more space or is it just that you find your case too hot and too noisy? If your problem is the former, you've still got two 5.25 bays and one 3.5 bay to fill up. If your problem is the latter, you've got a ton...

Hi everyone, Long time reader, first time poster. Let me say first off that it's great to see a home-grown site of this quality! On to my problem... I have been searching for "the Ultimate Case" for a few years now, and nothing seems to cut it. I left my trusty AOpen HX-08 a while back in favour of ...