Hilbert Hagedoorn van Guru3D.com heeft een guide online gezet waarin uit de doeken wordt gedaan hoe je, je kast kan uitrusten met een aantal extra ventilatoren. In de guide wordt uitgelegd hoe je een miditower kan voorzien met 2 extra intake fans en één extra outtake fan. Het blijkt dat deze drie extra fans goed helpen om de kast en zijn ingewanden koel te houden, de temperatuur in de kast mocht een daling van 10 graden mee maken en de CPU zelfs één van 12 graden onder stresscondities :
Well, I really tried to stress it to generate high temperatures but the heat doesn’t have a chance. Once and a while I put my hand over the top fan and I could never feel any difference of the temp. of out coming air. And the hang-ups after 1-2 hour of gaming totally disappeared. So I tried to raise the FSB to 144 (1008 MHz) and the system started up. After stressing the system for a half hour or so the system hang again. But the temperature was basically the same as earlier. So I increased the voltage from 1.7 to 1.8 volts. And voila! It hasn’t crashed ever since! The temperature is almost the same as running @ 994. I got a little bit greedy (of courseand tried to increase the bus even more. Next step for the FSB is 150 MHz and that was a little bit too much. Never got Windows started. But not only I got rid of the hang-ups, I even got it run faster with excellent stability.
[...] - If you find that you want to be able to squeeze a couple of extra MHz out of your system without putting a freezer or a waterworks into your case this can be it. Or if you know that you have a heat problem with your system this could be the easiest way. It’s not for sure you’ll need three fans. Anyway the system likes being cool. And the increased sound level is still at an acceptable level. I realized that its not much more noisier than my working computer with boxed PIII700 and a Geforce. So I hope my experiences can be of any use for you casemodders out there!
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