Nevbie + strange questions
Posted: Mon Dec 31, 2007 9:28 am
Hi all, been reading this site for some months.
I have never built a PC myself yet. Now I'm going to, just looking for all possible information from the net & waiting for new GPU architecture from Nvidia & waiting for penryn also.
Never liked the idea of cases that much though, they seem to be obstacles and they seem to involve various fitting/case fan/airflow/heat problems. And they cost alot for being such problems.
So I decided I'll use cardboard material and some cheap tape to create the case. Currently I'm planning to get a big cardboard box, a medium sized cardboard box and a smaller cardboard box. I'll put the 2 smaller boxes inside the big one, and fill the area in between with.. books.
I drew a little plan with Paint:
Plan is to duct GPU/CPU heat out. Or something like that. I'll probably be using aftermarket coolers for GPU & CPU and S-Flex 1200rpm version for all fans except the PSU which might be something like the Corsair VX550 fan.
Some questions:
1. Is cardboard+book layer+cardboard a good dampening material?
2. Does it even matter as I will have air intakes/outtakes, where there clearly are no obstacles between potential noise and outside world?
3. Is it a good idea to just put the motherboard on the cardboard? It won't need airflow near the backside of board, I guess? And the mobo might get less stressed by aftermarket heatsink weight..
4. There are no intakes for the main area in my plan, I'm unsure where to place them. CPU and GPU are clearly the two hottest parts, so their heatsinks will be used in the ducted exits. Will any of the other places (chipsets, capacitators near CPU, RAM) require such cooling, that I should direct an intake fan for them?
5. Negative, positive or even pressure, when there are no other paths for air to go than the planned ones? Or will it matter much?
6. I will probably want at least 2 fans besides the PSU one, for the exits. Does it matter if I put the fans in the ducts, or near the heatsinks, so that they push air via heatsinks to the ducts?
This is just a plan, nothing is bought yet.
I have never built a PC myself yet. Now I'm going to, just looking for all possible information from the net & waiting for new GPU architecture from Nvidia & waiting for penryn also.
Never liked the idea of cases that much though, they seem to be obstacles and they seem to involve various fitting/case fan/airflow/heat problems. And they cost alot for being such problems.
So I decided I'll use cardboard material and some cheap tape to create the case. Currently I'm planning to get a big cardboard box, a medium sized cardboard box and a smaller cardboard box. I'll put the 2 smaller boxes inside the big one, and fill the area in between with.. books.
I drew a little plan with Paint:
Plan is to duct GPU/CPU heat out. Or something like that. I'll probably be using aftermarket coolers for GPU & CPU and S-Flex 1200rpm version for all fans except the PSU which might be something like the Corsair VX550 fan.
Some questions:
1. Is cardboard+book layer+cardboard a good dampening material?
2. Does it even matter as I will have air intakes/outtakes, where there clearly are no obstacles between potential noise and outside world?
3. Is it a good idea to just put the motherboard on the cardboard? It won't need airflow near the backside of board, I guess? And the mobo might get less stressed by aftermarket heatsink weight..
4. There are no intakes for the main area in my plan, I'm unsure where to place them. CPU and GPU are clearly the two hottest parts, so their heatsinks will be used in the ducted exits. Will any of the other places (chipsets, capacitators near CPU, RAM) require such cooling, that I should direct an intake fan for them?
5. Negative, positive or even pressure, when there are no other paths for air to go than the planned ones? Or will it matter much?
6. I will probably want at least 2 fans besides the PSU one, for the exits. Does it matter if I put the fans in the ducts, or near the heatsinks, so that they push air via heatsinks to the ducts?
This is just a plan, nothing is bought yet.