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Grand Monkey
10th June 2004, 09:22
I'm curious how many case fans, if any, you guys run with your watercooling setup, and what kind of size are they? Also i have two sharkoon UV cold cathodes in my case but i'm still not getting much of a glow from the uv reactive dye in the tubes, any tips would be apprecaited! thanks!
Greeny
10th June 2004, 10:29
Fan wise I only have 6 x 80mm PAPST NGM's and the 2 x PAPST 120mm that came with the AC Rad, can't remember their model number and I couldn't find them on PAPST site anyway. Plan on another 120mm or possibly 2 x 120mm on the side panel when I get enough money to get the work done. All fans are attatched to baybus so I can turn 'em down to a reasonably low noise level. PSU fan is doing my nut, but I have a S1 noiseblocker (ultra quiet) fan waiting to go into it... Hope the PSU doesn't blow up.
:p
I tried out my case with 2 UV Cold cathodes (I'd show you the tester pics, but my ISP have nailed my webspace for using too much bandwidth) and the results were allright, but I think that 4 will be required for total coverage of the huge case I've got. Some cathodes are brighter than others, these ones came from a shop which sells lighting for cars and comps and are reasonably bright. Not as bright as coloured ones though that's for sure.
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Da_Rude_Baboon
10th June 2004, 12:04
I have all my case fans running in my PC60. Swapped them all out to papst silent ones on a rheo but i still need the throuput of air to keep the none water cooled components quiet.
I also have a zalman 400w PSU. :)
Darv
10th June 2004, 13:05
One Papst 4412 F/2GL at 7v on the rad. Two white LED Coolermasters in the intake on my PC60 at ~ 5v. And then the fan in my 400w Zalman PSU.
Needless to say I can't hear any of them (especially not above the noise of my HDD's)
Starbuck3733T
10th June 2004, 14:53
3x120mm aluminum frame panaflo L1As. 2 on the heatercore (pull thru as intake), 1 on the exhaust. No UV CCFLs installed yet.
Grand Monkey
10th June 2004, 15:27
i have two 120mm papst fans on my rad, one 80mm outlet and one 80mm intake and one 80mm over the hardrives, just wondering how many of my 80's i can get rid of.
Well, I have two Papst 120s on a 240 in Hex and the same on a 360 in my ClearPC. With the untimely cap-popping of my AquaPower, I've had to suffer PSU fans in both (a Papst 120mm on a modded PC Power & cooling and an enermax speed controlled 80mm) too but other than that, no more fans (except the Super silencer on my 9800, but that's heading Adam's way soon to make way for a GPX block). :cool:
I use two 120mm Papst fans on my rad, plus an 80mm in the PSU.
Unfortunately I've got seriously unequal pressure in the case, so it acts like a big hoover for any dust that's around.
I've also got 4 UV cathodes, one on the front, one on the back, one bottom and one top. They work pretty well for lighting up the tubes, though the front and top ones are a bit obscured due to the exact placement in the case.
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