Somewhere on teh interweb Howard Goldstein typed:
> On Sun, 09 Dec 2007 16:51:33 GMT, Howard Goldstein
> <hgoldste.RemoveThis@mpcs.com> wrote:
>> On Sun, 09 Dec 2007 03:37:55 GMT, Fishface <invalid.RemoveThis@ddress.ok?>
>> wrote: : I had tried the Noctua fan on my Thermalright, and it did
>> not : cool as well. It did not build pressure with the open tips,
>> I think. I : saw that there are some 120mm PWM fans now, too,
>> that could : ramp-up when necessary:
>> : www.heatsinkfactory.com/pwm-fans.html
>> : www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835186015
>> :
>> : I noticed there were some ducts here that could be useful:
>> :
>> www.thermalright.com/a_page/main_support_installation_fanduct_hr01.htm
>> : http://www.heatsinkfactory.com/fan-ducting.html
>>
>> Damn that's a clever idea thank you. Can you think of any reasons
>> why a plastic dryer duct piece couldn't be forced into this role?
>> Maybe pull the fan from the top of the case, run the duct between
>> that hole and the fan mounted on the other side of the cooler so
>> it's sucking right from that hole blowing down and into the cooler?
>> What think???
>
> Cardboard from the cooler up to the top noctua blowing in took me to
> 35/30 idle_coretemp/ambient -- awesome. Thank you all! I just ordered
> one of those thermalright ducts to try to get a cleaner install, maybe
> shave another degree off too.
>
> And that noctua is quiet enough to just leave running at full speed
> the whole time
Excellent news! Ducted outside air works for me everytime.
> Next up: Get this Q6600 back up above 3Ghz again. Time to dig up the
> post with Ed's overclocking parms for this bad boy
Heh! You have access to a good source of info there.
Good luck.
--
Shaun.
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