haydock2005
New Member
I recently upgraded my pc with a new mobo, cpu and RAM, but yesterday it stopped working! it turned off and refused to turn on! After a few hours of head scratching me and my brother finally concluded that it was the CPU (AMD Athlon64 3000+) or the mobo (ECS K8 NVIDIA Socket 754 DDR400 AGP (P21110) NFORCE3-A ATX) which was busted! I am sending them to be replaced but i think one reason for their breaking was that the heat that they were kicking out was hanging around and not 'going away'. I have attached a picture of the place where the tower sits (called hole!.jpg) and the red wall is on the left, if it isnt the correct way round. From the picture you can see that there is a wall to the left of the tower, wood to the right, top and back and the floor beneath! I have also included a picture of my tower (with proposed rig drawing!!), and as you can see it doesnt have a case on, as it got too hot!! The bad thing with no case is that i cannot easily attach some fans to it to hopefully blast the air out of the front of the tower's corner! i could easily make a 3 bar 'rig' which i could attach to the bottom and top of the tower, so attach some fans to, but i dont know whether the fans should be blowing air or sucking air, and i dont know how many i would need!
i have included a quick (and childish) pic of what i propose to attach fans to (called tower + rig.jpg). The red lines are the metal supports and the blue boxes are where fans could go (i could get more than 4 in as you can see). Also the blue arrows are the direction i want the air to be blown, the ebuyer fans apparently blow it in a certain direction, but im not sure hence this post!
The fans i am looking at are from www.ebuyer.co.uk and are their own make (the cheap ones! but they get good reviews). They also may sell tubes to direct air, but i dont know much about pc cooling!
Any help regarding a better 'rig' and the correct way to attach fans and how many would be greatly appreciated!!
My budget isnt really high, but the ebuyer fans are only up to £1 each, so its not going to be too hard!
Thanks
Richard Haydock
i have included a quick (and childish) pic of what i propose to attach fans to (called tower + rig.jpg). The red lines are the metal supports and the blue boxes are where fans could go (i could get more than 4 in as you can see). Also the blue arrows are the direction i want the air to be blown, the ebuyer fans apparently blow it in a certain direction, but im not sure hence this post!
The fans i am looking at are from www.ebuyer.co.uk and are their own make (the cheap ones! but they get good reviews). They also may sell tubes to direct air, but i dont know much about pc cooling!
Any help regarding a better 'rig' and the correct way to attach fans and how many would be greatly appreciated!!
My budget isnt really high, but the ebuyer fans are only up to £1 each, so its not going to be too hard!
Thanks
Richard Haydock