One 120mm fan, major improvement

[ViperGTS19801]

I have a Viper ATX case...

...it comes with 2 x 80mm fans (one on the side panel and one on the back, both intakes) and, of course, the one on the PSU. I have three temperature sensors, one for the mobo near the CPU, one on the GPU, and one takign the internal air temp of the case. The first two run idly at about 42C and 47C (respectively). The internal air was running about 31, 32. I stopped at a local computer store and bought a 120mm fan, mounting it as an intake on the front bay of the case, then flipped the two 80mm fans to exhausts.

Though I didn't look at the temperatures of the chipsets, I looked at the air sensor this morning after letting it run overnight. It's down to 27C.

Any other similar success stories?

 

[Geoff]

well i also have a Sempron 2800+ (oc'd to 1.78Ghz), and it idles around 39C, not sure about the air, but i have a 120mm on the front and i can feel the air going in and out, and its pretty powerful.

 

[mrjack]

My graphics card was almost overheating and the same thing for the CPU, found an really old 120mm fan with it's own PSU. The old 120mm helps cooling down the CPU, temperatures went from 52C when idle to 45C idle and the system temp dropped from 37C to 27C. The 120mm fan I bought to cool down the graphics card makes the card cold and I've overclocked it quite a bit.

 

[donjuan1jr]

My roomate has that case and with side 80 and front 120 as intake and the rear 80 as exaust hes gettin 29 case temp, and its pretty warm in here, wish my comp was as cool as his.

 

[diduknowthat]

i have this really powerful front 80mm fan and when i crank it up (5000rpm) it blows throughout my entire case, especially my cpu heatsink which lowers the cpu temp by about 5 degrees, but i usually keep that one off cause its just too loud...