On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 11:41:52 -0500, "Ian D"
<taurus.TakeThisOut@nowhere.com> wrote:
>For anyone with an Antec P180 or 182 case, if you notice
>your video card and CPU temperatures increasing, it's
>most likely time to clean the upper filter, especially if
>you have an extra fan in the middle drive bay. The
>filter may not look very dirty, but it will have an affect
>on temps. A good check is to remove the filter and
>watch the temps. The lower filter does not get as dirty
>if that fan is set at lowest speed.
>
This is good to know, and one of the caveats of having a
filtered system in that you have to either clean the filters
on a regular basis (per environment, pollution) or set up
the system such that it has more cooling margin, moves more
air through it than necessary when the filters are clean so
it's still moving enough once they start getting
progressively more clogged.
Frankly the thing I find most dissappointing about most
filtered cases is that the filter area is insufficiently
small and thus impedes airflow quite a lot even when they're
clean. On other cases with more filter area they often use
several filters and it becomes more laborious to remove and
clean them all. One solution I found was to take a case
with a large unchambered inner cavity, cut out the intake
for more area, and install a generic filter panel I found
cheap (meant for window A/C units) at the local hardware
store. By having a second panel I can pull one panel and
install the second clean panel without having the
(fileserver) down while the /other/ filter is being cleaned
and drying.
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