ATX Mid tower airflow

[axon1988]

I bought a nice cheap case, loads of fans and rubber screws among other things such as filters and stuff. I want to work out what's the best airflow configuration we can use. Although I've read a lot of articles so far, most of them do not account for our African sun and heat. So here's the basic case, and next I'll post a pic with what I have planned...

The basic case as you get it only has one fan built in. It's a 120mm fan situated in the rear exhaust. And it's sucking air out of the case. here's the visual example of what's possible:\



I have 4 extra 120mm fans. So I'm going to try and fit them in everywhere. Depending on if there'll be enough space after I placed the PSU I might even be able to place one on the bottom. Also I'm thinking about not putting any fans on the side door. I was curious about how this would affect airflow, any ideas?

[Cranky]

its easy. hear goes up . so get your top fan to suck out UNLESS you have a strong fan that can force the heat down and a high CFM fan that can suck all the hot air out the back.

But a basic setup would be 1 fan at back sucking air out. Front fan sucking air in side fan IN and top FAN out.

IF you dont put one on the side and rather the bottom then make that one suck in. You should be sorted.

[axon1988]

Here's more or less what I'm planning:



Any more ideas? Also i want the setup to be reasonably quiet...

*EDIT*

The next step is modding the case a little. First of all I'm going to just do some nice paint jobs on it. I'm not a fan of perspex windows so there won't be a conventional window on the side panel. Rather this mod is going for nice colors and some cool vinyl designs. Maybe some etching if I have the patience for it. I'm trying to keep the total cost under R1000 for everything including the case. I'll work on a visual representation and show you guys asap.

[Cranky]

that looks good to me . make sure your cable management is good though.

[axon1988]

There's not a lot of options for cable management in this case, but I have a plan. I'll maybe upload pics of the final product. All the needed items will be arriving tomorrow morning. So tomorrow evening I disappear into the depths of my old case. Which by the way was a old no name brand case. Bought it for R250 back in the day with a 450W PSU. The psu is long gone, ripping it out as soon as I got the case. But the case is still in it's original condition. Lots of blood has gone into that case and I hate it with a passion now.

[axon1988]

Okay so this is a little embarrasing, I put all the hardware in the case and it looks awesome... except for he fact that the ATX power cable of my current PSU is too short.

So people, I don't have a extra powersupply lying around. Does anyone have any ideas for extending the cable?

[hereticangel]

buy a 24 pin extender , check prophecy shop or your local pc store.

[axon1988]

buy a 24 pin extender , check prophecy shop or your local pc store.

I need a 4pin power extender. The cable that powers your CPU. And I did find some, but I went the cheap way yesterday. I took a old PSU's power cable, stripped it and soldered it on to my current one. Now it's long enough and it works fine. And it cost me nothing.

So now my new case is cooling at an incredible rate when I overclock my cpu. On normal frequencies it runs like it used to. But when I overclock the fans kick in and heat stays under 50 degrees.