Case- Silverstone TJ07. This is a 3d workstation and running it COOL is the main aim. I don't care about the noise...it does not bother me at all.
Image showing the air flow
I have 90% of the parts now apart from the Opteron 285 cpus.
So I did a quick layout to have everything clear in my head before I start building it. Anything I could improve with regards to airflow?
- Top 2x120mm are exhaust as hot air rises up (default case fan replaced by YS-Tech 1800rpm, 74 CFM, 36 dBa fans)
- The front 120mm will be intake and will feed air to the 1st Zalman heatsink plus some will go straight to shake up the hot air in the video card region. (Same 120mm YS tech fan again)
- The rear 2x92mm (Replaced the default ones with YS-Tech 92mm, 2500 rpm, 49CFM fans) will remain intake just like the original case fans were and feed air to the 2nd Zalman 9500 heatsink
- The zalman 9500s will be pointing downwards. Meaning they will throw hot exhaust air upwards towards the top two 120mm exhaust fans.
- 1x120 (1200 rpm standard fan taken from the top of the case) fan placed towards the back of the PSU to suck out any PSU hot air that might try to rise up through the cable opening in the partition (The HD and PSU area of the case is partitioned off from rest of the case).
Btw the lower section of the case on both sides is mainly mesh.
Thanks for your time.
Edit- I do have the option of getting Scythe S-FLEX SFF21F - 120 mm, 1600, 63.7CFM fans instead. I thought YS are better with the increased airflow.
Image showing the air flow
I have 90% of the parts now apart from the Opteron 285 cpus.
So I did a quick layout to have everything clear in my head before I start building it. Anything I could improve with regards to airflow?
- Top 2x120mm are exhaust as hot air rises up (default case fan replaced by YS-Tech 1800rpm, 74 CFM, 36 dBa fans)
- The front 120mm will be intake and will feed air to the 1st Zalman heatsink plus some will go straight to shake up the hot air in the video card region. (Same 120mm YS tech fan again)
- The rear 2x92mm (Replaced the default ones with YS-Tech 92mm, 2500 rpm, 49CFM fans) will remain intake just like the original case fans were and feed air to the 2nd Zalman 9500 heatsink
- The zalman 9500s will be pointing downwards. Meaning they will throw hot exhaust air upwards towards the top two 120mm exhaust fans.
- 1x120 (1200 rpm standard fan taken from the top of the case) fan placed towards the back of the PSU to suck out any PSU hot air that might try to rise up through the cable opening in the partition (The HD and PSU area of the case is partitioned off from rest of the case).
Btw the lower section of the case on both sides is mainly mesh.
Thanks for your time.
Edit- I do have the option of getting Scythe S-FLEX SFF21F - 120 mm, 1600, 63.7CFM fans instead. I thought YS are better with the increased airflow.