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With every new case t here are one or two 8cm case fans included. Most of the systems we build do not need any more cooling than is supplied by the CPU fan as most of our customers generally don't go in for all this "overclocking malarky" . Looking around the stock room I discovered two large boxes of unused 8cm case fans. Surfing through case mod sites, the most popular mod you see (besides Lex an windows) is some form of whizzy cooling device, be it fan or waterblo ck.
What you are looking at is a case made of case fans, De xian (there's probably a trademark in there somewhere) shelving, nylon c able ties, terminal blocks, nylon motherboard mounts, backplane blanks, screws and wire. This was as much an art project as it was a case mod -- I intended it to be indicative of the work I do, the things I see and work with every day , and also put an interesting spin on a common concern in the hardcore P C user community. Or you could say that is all a load of bollocks and I just thought it wou ld be a cool thing to do.
front2 There are 70 case fans in total, covering over 95% of the case AND THEY ALL WORK! Looking from the front of the case, air flows in through the left side an d out the right side. The front an back blow air into the case and air f lows from the top of the case down and out the bottom... All of the fans are cable tied together, and each side is attached to the Dexian (there's sure to be a trademark there) frame with nylon motherbo ard mounts (or standoffs). This was meant to be an action shot but the d igital camera's "shutter speed" was too quick to capture the movement.
Although I was actually going for the grungy industrial look, my construction and finishing methods do leave a lot to be desire d However, when you are building a computer case from scratch in your l unch hours and idle periods at work without the correct tools or the ben efit of power tools other than a cordless drill, you've got to cut corne rs somewhere or you'll never finish. Just to prove the thing actually works here is the casefancasefancase... The hardware installed in the photo is an MS-6540 mobo, P4 3GHz Prescott CPU, 512MB DDR400 RAM, 40GB ATA HDD , and crappy 36xCDROM I found lying around. The company would never let me have it without me havi ng to pay for it, and I had hoped to spend as little money on this ventu re as I could. I intend to redesign the case to suit some hardware I've got lying around at home. According to the owner of the store the case c osts around NZ$140 in case fans alone.
BIOS Now I suppose you are wondering: "Does it actually make a differe nce to the running temperature?" and any normal case is the system or mainboard temperature. After prolonged use it remains pretty constant at about 23 - 24 degrees Centigrade. The CPU temp is not as greatly affected, basically because I am using the standard fan/heat sink supplied with the CPU. If I was to shell out for something with big copper fins on it I'd probably notice a difference. But just in case yo u were wondering, here's a BIOS screenshot. I thought it might be stupid, eve n for me, to cover the PSU fan with case fans as well. This whole thing is not the finished product by any stretch of the imagination. You may have noticed it lacks a power switch other than the one at the end of the blue and red cable dangling from the fron t of the case. I intend to keep the exposed wiring and terminal blocks, but tidy up the molex plugs and keep them out of sight. I also need to f ind some way of hiding the CDROM, tidying up the I/O ports at the front, and throw in a couple of LEDs or Cold Cathodes for some interesting nig ht shots. The thing weighs a ton a nd is as easily moved as a freshly-dead hippopotamus.
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