Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2007 12:49 am
Well, the case does have 5 fans itself. Two 80mm in the front, one 80mm in the side, one 80mm in the top, and one 120mm in the back. Mind you, that doesn't count the PSU fan. The 120mm fan moves almost 90cfm (cubic feet per minute). The two 80mm fans that come with the case move about 30cfm. I am buyng two extra 80mm fans that push almost 40cfm. So, if I take the 40cfm fans and one of the 30cfm fans and use them for intake I will get about 105cfm to 110cfm of air intake. I'll point the 120mm and the 80mm in the top of the case out and make them exhaust fans. Those two should pull about 120cfm out of the case. That should make for some pretty good airflow through the case. That isn't counting the PSU fan either. Mind you, all of my case fans have blue LEDs in them, so the thing should glow pretty nicely in the dark.
I'm also putting a giant Zalman heatsink/fan on my Intel E6400 Core 2 Duo which should keep it pretty darn cool. I'm half tempted to go wth the next model up on the Zalman. The model I have picked out has a 80mm fan, but the next size up has a 120mm fan which works quite well from what I hear.
There's not much more I can do about the 8800GTS cards as I really don't feel like ripping off the stock heatsink/fan and replacing it. (doing it on a CPU is one thing, but a video card... nahhh...) If the thing is overheating like crazy, I can always stick in a PCI fan exhaust that sucks air out through an open PCI port.
Right now I am sitting right under $1,500. Of course, that does include a System Builders copy of Windows Vista Home Premium (OEM). Basically, its the same kind of Windows that Dell or HP would use to pre-install on your new computer. Since I am building this for myself (as a system builder), I can get it for pratically half off the retail version. The only difference is that the OEM version is just the Vista dis wrapped in plastic. The retail version comes with fancy manuals and all the bells and whistles.
I'm pretty content with the prce at the moment (the rig should last me for quite some time without upgrading [of course, SLI is so tempting!!!]), I'm just curious what the shipping cost is going to be...
I'm also putting a giant Zalman heatsink/fan on my Intel E6400 Core 2 Duo which should keep it pretty darn cool. I'm half tempted to go wth the next model up on the Zalman. The model I have picked out has a 80mm fan, but the next size up has a 120mm fan which works quite well from what I hear.
There's not much more I can do about the 8800GTS cards as I really don't feel like ripping off the stock heatsink/fan and replacing it. (doing it on a CPU is one thing, but a video card... nahhh...) If the thing is overheating like crazy, I can always stick in a PCI fan exhaust that sucks air out through an open PCI port.
Right now I am sitting right under $1,500. Of course, that does include a System Builders copy of Windows Vista Home Premium (OEM). Basically, its the same kind of Windows that Dell or HP would use to pre-install on your new computer. Since I am building this for myself (as a system builder), I can get it for pratically half off the retail version. The only difference is that the OEM version is just the Vista dis wrapped in plastic. The retail version comes with fancy manuals and all the bells and whistles.
I'm pretty content with the prce at the moment (the rig should last me for quite some time without upgrading [of course, SLI is so tempting!!!]), I'm just curious what the shipping cost is going to be...