Air cooling

[.Maleficus.]

Alas, there is no air cooling section, so this is the best place I could find to put this.

So, I should be getting 5 80mm fans soon, and have some questions about cooling.

1. I have set aside 2 for a GPU "blower" I guess. What I am going to do is take the 2, zip-tie the screw holes to the other fan (so they will be laying flat side by side) and zip-tie them ot the back of my case under my video card. BUT, I want to keep wires as tide as I can, so I want to see if I can somehow connect the wires so both fans use one power connector, or in this case, the system fan plug on my motherboard. Will they get enough power, or only run at half capacity?

2. I think I'm going to have 1 blowing on my RAM. Is that necessary? Also, is it necessary to cool my HDD?

3. What other "hot spots" might I want to cool? My Blue Orb covers like half of my northbridge block, so that should be good. What about southbridge? The thing is, its only like 20x20mm. The fans are 80mm.

4. 1 is for sure going to be intake, and if I have enough, 1 for outtake. Is there a certain spot where air likes to stop moving that I could prevent by putting in a fan?


Thanks for any help!

Maleficus

[CanaBalistic]

humm... humm...

HD's are the major hot spot and should be the last stop for air before it exits the case. I would recomend having more than one intake fan as fresh(cool) air is better than just pushing air around inside the case. For your GPU, you should get a PCI slot INTAKE fan (most slot blowers push air out). One fan on the side of your case blowing cool air over the ram is a good idea. So is a fan providing fresh air to your blue orb cooler.

The south bridge isnt as important as the north bridge and doesnt generate massive amounts of heat. You can get smaller fans or larger heatsinks but its probly going to be a waste of time unless you've overclocked your video card bus (only for the pro's).

[Razors Edge]

Well, I won't answer all but here is what I can tell ya.

You're hardrive was designed to be hot. As there are 3 or 4 metal disks in there spinning past 200+ MPH (7200 RPM), So basicley its definitley ganna get hot. I have a nice $10 HD cooler on mine, Basicley a 80 MM fan with a heatsink thing. It keeps it regular temp.

Memory does tend to get hot, I belive ThermalTake does make memory heatsinks, But memory really doesn't need to be cooled unelss ur computer will be on for 72 hours strait or somthing.

The major heatspots i know are

+CPU
+Memory
+HD
+Video Card
+PSU (some)

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Other then that I guess ur set.