P150/Solo - 120mm in place of two 92mm fans?

lowboy · Post by **lowboy** » Thu Aug 16, 2007 4:33 pm

Any owners of this case think that a 120mm fan would fit in the hard drive cage in place of the 92mm fans?

The reason I ask is because a decent 92mm fan in Canada seems to run around $10ish, while I could get a Yate Loon 120mm for $2.

notquitequiet · Post by **notquitequiet** » Thu Aug 16, 2007 5:26 pm

You can do it, but you'll probably need to cut some metal and probably lose the air filter. That's nice to know. But, it's probably not worth the effort.

I just happen to have an open Solo and a ruler next to me. Otherwise I wouldn't have posted.

lowboy · Post by **lowboy** » Thu Aug 16, 2007 6:42 pm

Bah...

Maybe I can mount one on the inside back of the drive cage.

mcoleg · Post by **mcoleg** » Fri Aug 17, 2007 1:54 am

m/b a 100mm fan a better option?

geofelt · Post by **geofelt** » Fri Aug 17, 2007 11:56 am

Scythe makes a 100mm fan that has both 100mm and 92mm mounting holes. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6835185024 in different speeds. One of these fits the solo nicely. I tried to mount two of them, but you have to relocate the mounting holes to get both fans to fit. In retrospect, it was not worth it. You really don't need the extra cooling.

mattt · Post by **mattt** » Sat Aug 18, 2007 3:22 am

that's in an antec solo(not mine)...i'd rather use the 2 x 92mm to be honest

sunspot · Post by **sunspot** » Thu Sep 06, 2007 4:11 pm

I have a Solo, too.

I wonder if you could mount one or two 120mm fans on the inside of the case, at the back of the hard drives, using good old duct tape? There's a pretty big gap between each drive, especially if you only use two of the drives to begin with. Would certainly help to cut noise if the fans were buried deeper inside the case. Might even allow for "passive" cooling of a nearby CPU heatsink.

lowboy · Post by **lowboy** » Thu Sep 06, 2007 4:22 pm

I just finished moving to Montreal and haven't had a chance to play around with my recently-acquired P150 and even more recently-acquired YL 120mm fans.

The reason I was asking in the first place was to save some money on 92mm fans, but I ended up getting two TriCool fans which are pretty danged skippy.

Mounting them on the inside of the drive cage was my initial thought, even going as far as reverse-mounting the hard drive(s) to accommodate the fans. I haven't had a chance to stress out my evga 8800 gts, but I might end up getting the HR-03 for it if it's too loud and then building a duct that pulls air from the front of the case and spits it out the back.

mtavares · Post by **mtavares** » Fri Sep 07, 2007 2:17 am

If you use a single HD or can mount a second HD on the back of P150 you may try an arrangement with one 92mm for the HD and one 120mm fan for the videocard. Using this approach the temperatures of our 8600GTS Silenpipe 3 reduced in 4-5 C deg (compared to 2 x 92mm fans arrangement) without affecting the noise levels. The figures below explain better.

Best Regards,

Marcos

Q.J.A

geofelt · Post by **geofelt** » Fri Sep 07, 2007 6:56 am

Two 92mm fans might actually give better cooling. The surface area of a 120mm circle is 11,304mm whereas the surface area of two 92mm circles is 13,288mm . If you use fans with equal rpm, the cooling effect should be better. With equal rpm, the sound should be the same.

The trick is to find 92mm fans with low rpm. I may get a pair of these silenx 1100rpm fans for my next build. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6835191009

sunspot · Post by **sunspot** » Fri Sep 07, 2007 11:16 am

I just bought two Antec TriCool fans for the front of my Solo, and switched them to the "medium" mode. They're also controlled by my motherboard, and only speed up when the case temp rises above a certain level. So far they seem pretty silent - I haven't tried them with the switch set to "low" - they'd probably be completely silent that way, assuming they'd turn at all at low voltages.

I want to use the front fans because I have one of those Antec Phantom power supplies, which normally runs fanless. I didn't want the 120mm case fan at the back to start sucking hot air out of the power supply and into my case.

batka · Post by **batka** » Sat Sep 29, 2007 4:11 am

Hi there!

I have a question about the air flow in Solo. I don't plan to use any front case fans in Solo. Will that be enough air flow, if I don't use any of the 2 92mm fans?

Only one HDD will be inside (possibly 2.5" drive), and CPU is P4 Prescott 2.4 GHz, S478. PSU is Seasonic S12 II 430W. I don't know what RPM fan needed for the back yet.

Thanks in advance.

truckman · Post by **truckman** » Sat Sep 29, 2007 3:54 pm

batka wrote:I have a question about the air flow in Solo. I don't plan to use any front case fans in Solo. Will that be enough air flow, if I don't use any of the 2 92mm fans?

Only one HDD will be inside (possibly 2.5" drive), and CPU is P4 Prescott 2.4 GHz, S478. PSU is Seasonic S12 II 430W. I don't know what RPM fan needed for the back yet.

You are unlikely to need any front fans to keep the drive cool.

I've got two systems that use the Solo. The first one uses an orange Yate Loon exhaust fan and has a 10K RPM Seagate Cheetah SCSI drive. I wasn't able to get enough air flow over the drive without a front fan to keep the drive comfortably cool, so I added a 92mm Nexus fan in front, which was more than sufficient. The second system uses the stock Tricool fan in the rear, set to low, and has a 160GB 7200 RPM Hitachi SATA drive. Even on the warmest summer days the drive temperature never got above 44 C (as reported by smartctl), even without a front fan.

Neither of my systems has as hot a CPU as yours. The first system has a 65W Windsor core Athlon 64 X2. The second system originally had a Tualatin core P III and is being upgraded to a Brisbane core Athlon 64 X2.

batka · Post by **batka** » Sat Sep 29, 2007 8:32 pm

truckman wrote:You are unlikely to need any front fans to keep the drive cool.

I've got two systems that use the Solo. The first one uses an orange Yate Loon exhaust fan and has a 10K RPM Seagate Cheetah SCSI drive. I wasn't able to get enough air flow over the drive without a front fan to keep the drive comfortably cool, so I added a 92mm Nexus fan in front, which was more than sufficient. The second system uses the stock Tricool fan in the rear, set to low, and has a 160GB 7200 RPM Hitachi SATA drive. Even on the warmest summer days the drive temperature never got above 44 C (as reported by smartctl), even without a front fan.

Neither of my systems has as hot a CPU as yours. The first system has a 65W Windsor core Athlon 64 X2. The second system originally had a Tualatin core P III and is being upgraded to a Brisbane core Athlon 64 X2.

Thanks much for the nice helping!
When I buy the case, I'll watch the temps, and put a front fan if CPU temp will be too high.
Thanks!

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