Looking to keep this case cool

[TenaciousPD]

http://www.thermaltake.com/xaserCase/tsunami/sna/sna.htm

Any ideas? im planning on having a p4 2.8 prescott 1mb of cache w/ 1 gig of ram running, ive considered water cooling or air, i dont want to drain a ton of money into cooling, but i dont want my stuff getting hot.

[dukeman]

man that is a awesome looking case. i would bet with the duel 120mm fans you would not have much of a heat problem. hook those fans up to a reobus and you will be all set.

that case is screaming to be set up for watercooling. plenty of room for rads and pump.

[jurtje]

Wouldn't buy a Prescott though, since they are notoriously hot, better go with a Northwood. Eventhough it has half the cache, it's a much better overclocker.

[dukeman]

i cant help you with the intel stuff, i am a amd guy

[KryoNexus]

personally, i would get a basic watercooling kit. a standard swiftech 8600 would be perfect for this. then maybe toss in a 120mm radiator to make it even quieter. watercooling is hands down quieter than any air solution, especially if you have the fans "sucking" air through the radiator instead of "blowing" into the radiator.

[dukeman]

i agree. i have the 80mm rads right now and they work pretty good. with the fans at 5v my temps are 43idle and 50 load.

at 12v they are 42idle and 46load. not the best out there but i am overclocking my cpu and gpu. plus on 5v is beats the heck out of any air system for noise. almost silent.

[TenaciousPD]

Thats what I was contemplating, since kyronexus did a review on that watercooling kit, ill prolly go with that, Ill prolly buy a clear resouiver from frozencpu.com or something since it doesnt come with one.

[KryoNexus]

yeh, with the cpu, gpu, and chipset blocks, i'm running idle at around 46-47 with my cpu voltage at 1.75V, and it's quiet enough that the fiancee doesn't complain about being able to hear it in the night now. :-)

[Caj Darkmoon]

Meh, there's no need for watercooling unless you plan on heavy overclocking. Even a cheap kit is more than you'll spend a lot more than air cooling. As far as I'm concerned there's no need... it's just what everybodies doing.

My thoughts?

120mm in the back (may have to expand it) and cut out that nasty stamped grate.

120mm on the top, in the space between the front drives and the PSU.

120mm on the left side, bottom front corner.

Put on some nice fan grills... and your golden. I'd go intake on the top and back, and outtake on the side. I know that sounds like it wont work well, because it will bottleneck, but it makes sense. It will create positive pressure inside the case, which will keep dust and contaminates out, and you'll get hot airflow. I'd find some quiet 120's to go with that smooth case design.

[DaMiEn]

watercooling can be very quiet and inexpensive if you go about it the right way. just use a heatercore from a car, mod the barbs, buy (or make) a waterblock, get some tubing (quite cheap) and a pump. people watercool because its quiet and performs better than air cooling