- Nov 22, 2014
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Hello guys, if you remember me, I started a topic before Christmas, if I'm not mistaken, asking for help for how to do to install the Corsair H110 I got on a deal on my mid tower, that didn't have any support. I'm talking about a Aerocool Strike X-One, one of the best budget cases you can get, in my opinion, unless you need much room for radiators and such, then you will have to take a road like the one I just took.
First and foremost, I'd like to thank Motopsychojdn, who guided me and provided me with ideas, but, most of all, made me believe that it could be done, made me not give up on it, and saved me from spending all my money on another case immediately - in Brazil the cheapest I would find would end up costing me 250 dollars.
I had not yet decided on what to do even after I was convinced it could be done, and when the H110 got here I was already so tired from my stock cooler that I just took the side off and started installing it, and I could not do any of my original ideas - some of them pretty stupid, but I only realized too late - so I just let my case sideways on the top of my table, because, as it was bought from someone who tried to install but couldn't and sold it for the price of a H90, I was not sure if it was going to work and if I was installing it correctly. I ended up putting the two foams that came with my PSU on top of my sideways case and putting the rad there, after that I swapped for some books, and it ran like that for more than one week.
Tonight I finally decided I was going to take care of that, because I checked my gifts for Christmas and I had money to buy a case, but I went to look at the prices and almost cried, because I could really use that money for better things, I only just bought this case, and then I decided to take one last look. All options seemed impossible, I would have to open holes on my case or I would not be able to assemble it.
I then "recruited" my father to help me with the "dirty" job because I know only of turning screws, not of doing messy work. We decided to employ the brute way and open it with a clipping plier, and a lot of force, and then I just sanded it to make sure it wouldn't get sharp, sealed the edges with insulating tape, and then, with a lot of assistance, assembled the pieces with the little room the short fan cables from the stock fans provided me, and the final result is here:
First of all, the whole album is avalable here.
Some considerations:
I know it must not feel that important to some experienced people on this forum, like my "mentor" Motopsychojdn, because it was a real simple job, but, it is hard for people that are strange to this kind of job. Just think of when you first bought a water cooler, or the first time you tried to disassemble or assemble your PC, or the first time you thought of installing a VGA, or changing a processor. Hearing from people who do it all the time but that won't be there when you put your hands in the dirt is not as important as knowing that you can do it even if you never did, even you don't have the most elaborate tools.
Now for the cooling results.
Comparing with my PC sideways and with the radiator and fans free of the case, the new position, attached to the case with the fans on the inside, blowing into the rad the air that it sucks through the side panel, there was not one degree of change in temperature. If anything, it was 1 degree cooler, but it is withing the error margin. Towards the GPU and other temperature sensors, the heat has diminished, a heat could be felt on the case on the bottom below the HD and the optical drive, but it has gone, and in the GPU temp measures, it was almost a 6 degree change (more cool than before). Think it is better for the PSU too, whose fan has not to battle the wind coming into it when it is trying to take the hot air out.
Now for the issues.
It diminished my victory over the Stock AMD cooler that I replaced because I don't like hearing an airplane inside my bedroom every time the CPU is not Idle. The noise is now somewhat loud, I'd guess near 40% of the stock cooler (on the audible spectrum), and I think it has something to do with the dynamics of pulling a lot of air through the holes of the side of the case. Don't know exactly why it makes the noise, but this is my guess, because the fans run at the same speed as before - full - and the cooling results are still optimal - never reach 50 degrees at full load 4.5 GHz OC on FX 8320, maybe need to put a little more just to secure that condensation will not happen when the summer temperatures here kick in in a few days and it makes near to 35 degrees.
If anyone could tell me if condensation is a real problem or a simple solution to the noise, I would be very grateful. But only not loosing half my desk to the sideways case and having everything attached with screws is already a victory.
First and foremost, I'd like to thank Motopsychojdn, who guided me and provided me with ideas, but, most of all, made me believe that it could be done, made me not give up on it, and saved me from spending all my money on another case immediately - in Brazil the cheapest I would find would end up costing me 250 dollars.
I had not yet decided on what to do even after I was convinced it could be done, and when the H110 got here I was already so tired from my stock cooler that I just took the side off and started installing it, and I could not do any of my original ideas - some of them pretty stupid, but I only realized too late - so I just let my case sideways on the top of my table, because, as it was bought from someone who tried to install but couldn't and sold it for the price of a H90, I was not sure if it was going to work and if I was installing it correctly. I ended up putting the two foams that came with my PSU on top of my sideways case and putting the rad there, after that I swapped for some books, and it ran like that for more than one week.
Tonight I finally decided I was going to take care of that, because I checked my gifts for Christmas and I had money to buy a case, but I went to look at the prices and almost cried, because I could really use that money for better things, I only just bought this case, and then I decided to take one last look. All options seemed impossible, I would have to open holes on my case or I would not be able to assemble it.
I then "recruited" my father to help me with the "dirty" job because I know only of turning screws, not of doing messy work. We decided to employ the brute way and open it with a clipping plier, and a lot of force, and then I just sanded it to make sure it wouldn't get sharp, sealed the edges with insulating tape, and then, with a lot of assistance, assembled the pieces with the little room the short fan cables from the stock fans provided me, and the final result is here:
First of all, the whole album is avalable here.
Some considerations:
I know it must not feel that important to some experienced people on this forum, like my "mentor" Motopsychojdn, because it was a real simple job, but, it is hard for people that are strange to this kind of job. Just think of when you first bought a water cooler, or the first time you tried to disassemble or assemble your PC, or the first time you thought of installing a VGA, or changing a processor. Hearing from people who do it all the time but that won't be there when you put your hands in the dirt is not as important as knowing that you can do it even if you never did, even you don't have the most elaborate tools.
Now for the cooling results.
Comparing with my PC sideways and with the radiator and fans free of the case, the new position, attached to the case with the fans on the inside, blowing into the rad the air that it sucks through the side panel, there was not one degree of change in temperature. If anything, it was 1 degree cooler, but it is withing the error margin. Towards the GPU and other temperature sensors, the heat has diminished, a heat could be felt on the case on the bottom below the HD and the optical drive, but it has gone, and in the GPU temp measures, it was almost a 6 degree change (more cool than before). Think it is better for the PSU too, whose fan has not to battle the wind coming into it when it is trying to take the hot air out.
Now for the issues.
It diminished my victory over the Stock AMD cooler that I replaced because I don't like hearing an airplane inside my bedroom every time the CPU is not Idle. The noise is now somewhat loud, I'd guess near 40% of the stock cooler (on the audible spectrum), and I think it has something to do with the dynamics of pulling a lot of air through the holes of the side of the case. Don't know exactly why it makes the noise, but this is my guess, because the fans run at the same speed as before - full - and the cooling results are still optimal - never reach 50 degrees at full load 4.5 GHz OC on FX 8320, maybe need to put a little more just to secure that condensation will not happen when the summer temperatures here kick in in a few days and it makes near to 35 degrees.
If anyone could tell me if condensation is a real problem or a simple solution to the noise, I would be very grateful. But only not loosing half my desk to the sideways case and having everything attached with screws is already a victory.
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