Cooling Devices

Everyone knows heat is the PC's worst enemy .Today's High speed drives, CPU's generate a lot of hot air build up inside a system and create lots of localized heat pockets.

Generally a tower case will have vents to the bottom of the chassis, the cool air is then pulled up towards the PSU and expelled out the back.

This create two issues :

1. Heat accumulates in the drive bays at the front of the chassis
2. PCI / AGP cards will attract more heat as airflow is not being moved out of this part of the system

Solution

We need cooling options which will rush air through the PC quickly, move over the M/B , CPU and be exhausted out the back.

1. Air Movement

Fit two secondary fans- one to the front to pull air in, one to the fan space located to the rear of the chassis (rear fan also acts as a backup should PSU fan fail)

2. Cooling Your Drives

Fit multifunction rack with 2 x 80mm Secondary Fans below drive stacks. This allows cool air front the front of case to blow up through the drives

3. Adaptor Cards

Using Exhaust Fan, place this in an PCI/ ISA slot facing towards adaptor cards. If possible leave this one slot aways from cards so airflow is'nt confined. Add additional fans for humid areas e.g. VGA cooler on top of chip heatsink, Hard Disk cooler in front of HDD.