Opinions on My Air flow

[harbinger52]

Just wanted to know what everyone thought of My air flow:

Addtronics 7896
4-80mm 2 in and 2 out on each side of the drive bays
1-120 mm Sunon sucking in on the front
1-80mm sunon sucking in on the front
2-120mm sanyo sucing in on the side (left over from H2O cooling days)
1-90 mm sunon blowing out the back
1-80 mm sunon blowing out the back
1-120mm panaflo blowing out the top.

Am I not exhausting enough air.

Right now my system temp runs 7c higher than room temp and the processor (alpha 8045) runs 6c higher that system.

example 19c room, 26c case, 32c chip.

MOBO is a MSI K7T266 Pro-ru

 

[Barrei]

Wow that is alot of fans , looks good to me , how is the noise?

 

[2Cool]

The drive bay fans are pretty extraneous, as the bay cages block them so much they make more noise than airflow.

Your temps are pretty good, but likely cleaning up the airflow pattern could allow less fans to do the same job just as well. The side mount 120s likely are creating a lot of airflow disturbance, plus you have a lot more intake than exhaust.

Biggest thing is to try some trial and error experimentation. Unplug a couple fans, take some heat measurements. See how various fan combinations effect temperature.

I had a 3-5 degree over ambient temp average in my Addtronics 7896, using a single 120mm fan for the lower intake and another above the power supply for exhaust. The power supply fan and a low RPM 60mm behind the CPU area were the only others in the system...

 

[harbinger52]

how is the noise

It is loud But I am use to it. The delta on teh Alph is probably the loudest.