hang on for my HTPC pic

HTPC supposed be quiet & no blink .. so forget bout UV & LED stuffs .. lol

where is the pic dude??

Since it's a HTPC, so the casing should be small right?

Correct me if i'm wrong guys...

Well, XP90, XP120 should work well for you're HTPC...

Don't forget the Silverstone NT03 too since it is design for SG01 case. It shud fix for all kind of SFF case

U can try Thermaltake thunderblade LED 120mm 21dBA 79cfm (RM35) or its 80mm around 33cfm (RM28) also the Arcyan Blackfire series 29dBA and its cfm oso lower a bit of Thunderblade.

XP90 is around 90mm tall... XP120 is around 70+mm tall.... + 25mm for fan = 95mm for XP120..

A typical HTPC is around 100+cm tall.

use water cooling system....
take out ur side panel... put a table fan or box fan to blow... i use to do that on my P.3
what is ur computer spec n tem..

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my 'wife'....

Pentium D 930,
Intel mobo D945PSN,
Icute casing with 25cm casing fan both side,
Gigabyte silent paip II 256mb 128 bit (model 4got),
Liteon RW rom x5 (other burn out)
Liteon DVD rom x 1
Creative S.B Video Editor ext,
Creative Gigawork Speakers 7.1,
Edifier speaker 2.1,
Stupid W.D HDD 160GB, die in 3 month (banlisted)
Maxtor 80GB HDD,
AVR x2,
View Sonic LCD 19" monitor x1 (1 more coming)
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kelvinsykoh: which casing are you using exactly?

This is not a case whereby you add X brand of cooler into it and it'll solve everything.

Pic of the internals will be good as well.

i am using cooler master atc620....umm ...but am selling it off now...its it garage sales....i try upload link later after work

Ah well..since we're still in the topic..

If I were you, I'll chop the rear part above the IO port...marked with red in the pics....then throw in a Lian Li BS-01 blower fan.

Better still, can just run the cpu heatsink fanless by cardboard ducting it to the blower.

That should reduce the noise by quite a bit.



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The casing has only 1 exhaust fan, 60mm so looks like gonna need to mod it. Looks like no intake fan also... will be troublesome to have good airflow... *offtopic* and darnit I just saw your thread in Garage sales... nice price

This post has been edited by vey99: Oct 5 2006, 10:38 PM