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well I guess one option would be this fan if you want to move alot of air and it should fit in a 250mm slot (or be modded to easily) since 250mm is a little more than 9inches http://www.grainger.com/Grainger/items/7F670
I've got two fans (smaller) very similar to this one but I very rarely use them since I have to plug them into a wall outlet, but god they move so much air to fit in 120mm slots
 
Do you personally use any of these fans Laminator? I really appreciate the links- very helpful. I will be using one of these more then likely.

Question: Do they have independent outlet jacks or can they be modded to fit a powersupply (or both- an independent jack might be nice)? Do you know how much cubic feet these move? The link didn't post. Thanks again :)

EDIT: Nevermind the airflow question, I can't read 😛.
 
Your probably right... I don't need a fan that big. But I want one. Besides, I looked at the fans you posted (the 250mm one anyway), and it only moves 105 cfm. The one laminator posted moves 500 cfm.
 
At some point, you will reach an air-mass threshold that won't make any difference how much more air you are pushing. There has to be a physics equation for this, but it might be entirely too advanced for the sake of cutting holes in computer cases.

$40-$65 for one of those Grainger fans?

Why not just get an excellent CPU cooler for that price...?

Modding is your own free will...good luck with your end choice.
 
Rubix- the fans are AC not DC so if you pull them with a PSU I would be truly amazed. Also if used for exaust it would allow for negative pressure within the case, and the laws of physics do apply you're right, outside air will fill the void left by negative pressure.

mothergoose- the ones that i use from time to time are pretty old now but are very similar to http://www.grainger.com/Grainger/items/3LE74 except in a 115 v unit rather than 230v. These fans are AC and you're PSU is DC meaning that you'll have to use a wall outlet. What i do with the 2 i have, i don't even mount them. I have a cooler master rc-690 case which is pretty much all mesh. I just place the two high speed fans on top of the case and use them for exhaust and believe me they put a hellacious amount of air.
Let me know what you decide on and how it turns out i may decide to try something like this (more permanent) myself :)
 
Ahhh...I guess I didn't look closer.

Still, you can never achieve lower than ambient temps with air (or water) and you are still dependent upon the ability of your heatsinks to effectively transport heat away from the processors and into the heatsink where it can be conducted to the passing air.

Why not make it good?

http://www.mdhydro.com/squirrel-cage-fans.html

Cut holes, mount to side of case, plug in wall. I am guessing CFM isn't always an apples to apples comparison. Next step is a diesel powered wind turbine...
 
I am going to get a xiggy and a passive cooler for my gpu anyway. I am just a performance buff. I want the most for my money. I think I am going to get my case, install heatsinks, and run it standard for a while to gauge temps. Then I'll take the side panel off, blow a high powered fan in the case, gauge temps then, and see how much room there is to improve. If I can get my temps to drop a whole lot when I blow a desk fan on it then I will look into buying one of those monster fans. If not then I'll save my money. It would be cool to brag about having a side fan the moves that much air, lol.
 
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I have a 2x120mm rad on the back of the case as well.

Dangerden pump, TDX block, NB block, Swiftech MCW60 GPU block.

I made the res's out of acrylic tubing, but would like a cleaner look...working on v2.0.

I've purged more air and filled the res's completely with coolant now...need new pics it seems. I guess that's in the works. Maybe some LED lights behind them as well...
 
there is a thread on here somewhere and i can't find it now, where some guys took an air conditioner and ran alcohol through the coils to drop the temps down to something like -30F (had to cut the fan off the condenser of course) and pumped it through waterblocks in the system, it was pretty cool but they problems with condensation
 
I think I took that just after I ran 3dmark06...under load I haven't seen it hit above 50C on any core. GPU never gets above 48C. NB is also cooled by a waterblock; I might not have been allowed me to hit those speeds without cooling the NB with water.

I think the CPU block was ~$55
NB block ~$25(?)
GPU block ~$40 ($45?)

I have used these same blocks for the last 3 builds...just needed different brackets for the GPU; CPU blocks usually come with 3-4 diff brackets, but LGA has been the same...
 
there is a thread on here somewhere and i can't find it now, where some guys took an air conditioner and ran alcohol through the coils to drop the temps down to something like -30F (had to cut the fan off the condenser of course) and pumped it through waterblocks in the system, it was pretty cool but they problems with condensation
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Saw a guy at a LAN that had done something similar with a refridgerator condenser. He had the coils running through a tank (what appeared to be a 5gal fish tank) full of coolant which he had pumped using a fish pond pump and 1" tubing and some copper junction blocks he found and milled a little. He got below ambient temps (obviously), and was sitting around 2-5C under load that way. It was pretty ugly looking, though.

I guess a 5 gallon bucket full of dry ice and water with some fittings running in and out might also suffice, but like this guy, make transporting your rig difficult. He had a 5 gallon bucket full of coolant and had to reprime his entire system every time he moved it. Not cool. Mine is set up with the case strap in place...grab and go.
 
I started out pretty basic, my first mod was carving Matrix glyphs into the side of an old case and adding green cathodes behind plexi. Looked OK, I had shards of steel in my hands for a week. Thank you tetnus shots.

Watercooling leads you down new roads for customizing.
 
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