Aerocool case w 250mm fan!

peterson · Post by **peterson** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 1:43 am

Will it be quiet?
Certainly cool. (tempwise anyhow)

Also 140mm front fan and external fan controller.

jaganath · Post by **jaganath** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 2:56 am

At first I thought there was a typo in the title of this thread; 250mm!!!! Imagine what that thing sounds like when it's fired up!

Actually, at full speed it will probably produce enough force to send your computer flying off your desk and against the nearest wall!

nici · Post by **nici** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 3:03 am

Good for marketing purposes i guess..

vine-au · Post by **vine-au** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 4:04 am

The CM 830 can apparently take a 300mm fan

might have to check out this case i really like the look of it

HaloJones · Post by **HaloJones** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 7:40 am

1 x 25cm fan
Speed: 550~1000 RPM
Air Flow: 90.97~162.82 CFM (MAX)
Noise: 19.54~35.28 dB(A)

1 x 14cm fan with quad blue LEDs
Speed: 650~1500 RPM
Air Flow: 68.37 CFM (MAX)
Noise: 17.8~34.72dB(A)

At the lowest setting, that would still be quiet and great potential for a water-cooling system.

ronrem · Post by **ronrem** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 8:10 am

A 250....vroooom!!! I was at their site checking out the case with the nifty front LCD display,as well as the sweet 140 mm Streamliner fan...one of which is obviously in this. Didn't take note of this case.

So you add a padded layer over the door with louvers to deflect sound to the rear. On a 754 Venice,you stick a Ninja,or even Aerocools big 1000 heatsink,passive. Take the 140 fan and mod your PSU,everything runs at minimum speeds. Actually,you could do most X2's with that setup. Great to see someone "gets" the upside of big slow fans...though this is almost overkill.

qviri · Post by **qviri** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 8:16 am

If that fan was a tad bit higher, it alone could probably cool a Prescott with a XP-120 on it

Steve_Y · Post by **Steve_Y** » Wed Jan 18, 2006 4:39 pm

I know that case looks like nothing but a gimmick, but I'm intrigued by the design. Years ago I thought about cutting a big hole in the side panel on my PC and trying to fix a big desk fan on it, in the end I dismissed it as a pretty stupid idea, but maybe I was a little hasty.

That Aerocool case may not turn out to be much good, I certainly don't trust the claimed noise level and airflow of those fans, but it's generally accepted that larger fans will be able to move more air at the same sound level as a smaller fan. A 25cm fan may seem over the top, but surely it makes sense to have the largest fan possible in a low noise PC?

Side panels give a nice large area where a massive fan can be placed to blow directly onto hot components like the CPU and graphics card. I don't see why that wouldn't cool the system very well, with large passive heatsinks put on all the components and positive pressure pushing air through a passive PSU, I imagine that quite high end systems could be cooled with a single big side panel fan at a very low speed.

Felger Carbon · Post by **Felger Carbon** » Thu Jan 19, 2006 2:51 am

I've been waiting to see who was going to ask, "If we have 25cm and 14cm fans pumping air _into_ the case, just how does air get _out_ of the case?". There's also another case recently with 9ea 12cm fans, _7_ of them blowing into the case and only 2 blowing out!

Shows how dumb I am. The computer I'm composing this on has two 12cm fans, both blowing out. No fans blowing in.

spolitta · Post by **spolitta** » Thu Jan 19, 2006 8:45 am

Felger Carbon wrote:I've been waiting to see who was going to ask, "If we have 25cm and 14cm fans pumping air _into_ the case, just how does air get _out_ of the case?". There's also another case recently with 9ea 12cm fans, _7_ of them blowing into the case and only 2 blowing out!

Shows how dumb I am. The computer I'm composing this on has two 12cm fans, both blowing out. No fans blowing in.

actually I think the 250 fan is exhaust and both the rear and front fans are intake.

Felger Carbon · Post by **Felger Carbon** » Thu Jan 19, 2006 9:33 am

spolitta wrote:
Felger Carbon wrote:I've been waiting to see who was going to ask, "If we have 25cm and 14cm fans pumping air _into_ the case, just how does air get _out_ of the case?". There's also another case recently with 9ea 12cm fans, _7_ of them blowing into the case and only 2 blowing out!

Shows how dumb I am. The computer I'm composing this on has two 12cm fans, both blowing out. No fans blowing in.
actually I think the 250 fan is exhaust and both the rear and front fans are intake.

So, the PSU must also blow hot air into the case? Or does the PSU fan scream wildly in an attempt to push air out of the case against the suction of the giant side panel fan, which if successful, the hot PSU air would immediately be sucked back into the case by the rear panel (formerly exhaust but now input) fan?

BTW: who makes PSUs that blow air into the case?

Steve_Y · Post by **Steve_Y** » Thu Jan 19, 2006 3:08 pm

Making the side panel fan an exhaust would seem like a very bad idea to me. Having it blow cool air directly onto the motherboard seems much more efficient.

rpsgc · Post by **rpsgc** » Fri Jan 20, 2006 2:10 am

Another one... are we seeing a new fad here?

cyberman · Post by **cyberman** » Fri Jan 20, 2006 5:52 pm

vine-au wrote:The CM 830 can apparently take a 300mm fan
might have to check out this case i really like the look of it

Its not a 300mm axial fan, its a 300mm long crossflow fan:

http://www.coolermaster-usa.com/CoolerM ... px?pid=727

mathias · Post by **mathias** » Fri Jan 20, 2006 11:13 pm

This should have a marketing advantage, "Quarter meter fan" sounds a lot better than "250 milimeter fan" or "300 mm fan".

peterson · Post by **peterson** » Thu Feb 09, 2006 1:29 am

A first? review.