Posted by Tom61 on January 20, 2002 at 15:22:38:
In Reply to: PC cooling in a cabinet posted by lightspeed on January 20, 2002 at 13:52:48:
Leave the back off of your cab, and put the PC case part of the way back, that should give it plenty of air flow, or better yet sideways if you have the room.
If your PC airflow is good now, taking the side off the case might make it worse!
: Hi all,
: I've built the system I'm going to use in the cab, and have been doing setup and breaking it in over the last few weeks at me desk. It consists of an Athlon 1.4, 256 megs DDR, 350 watt PS, Radeon 32 meg TV-Out. Right now, it's in a case with plenty of active cooling:
: large heatsink, proc fan
: 2 case fans
: 1 northbridge chipset fan
: The case is completely closed (side panel installed). I was hoping to drop it in "as is" into the cabinet, but am now afraid of airflow. Anyone have any input? Should I at least take off the side cover, or be more worried about dust? I know the proc runs pretty hot, and there will be a 25" TV sitting right over it. Any suggestions/input? With all the money I've been spending, I really don't want to fry my system.
: Thanks,
:
: Joe