Want To Mod My Dark Base 900 Rev.2

[Hankieroseman]

Want to add the PULL to my PUSH fan arrangement of my top radiator adding 3x120MM fans. These be quiet! fans are rubber grommet insulated and need those special mounting screws. The cover will be modified for clearances at some point but I'm looking at this modder's mods. It might be worth $100. I think I could use a little more cooling. Maybe this room won't get so hot or it could get worse. The MoBo heatsinks were a clearance issue that prevented both fans and radiator fitting on the inside. Constructive criticism and ideas y'all. Trying to locate those screws now. #8x32 tpi x 1 & 3/16" SHOULDER screws.

 

[Harlow]

Maybe this room won't get so hot or it could get worse.

I don't think more radiator fans will make any difference to the ambient room temperature, unless you extract the warm air outside. If you think about it, warm air leaving the computer will eventually find its way back inside the computer, where it will be warmed up again, then blown out of the computer back into the room, where it recirculates ad infinitum.

Consider a clothes dryer. If you don't want the laundry room to heat up, you connect a pipe to the wall and extract the hot air out of the building. N.B. I'm not suggesting you should do this with your computer, but I'm using this as an example on how to stop a room from heating up.

Unless you have a modern server dissipating over 2kW, your computer system probably generates less than 600W, more likely less than 300W. Modern server racks are starting to use water cooling, where extremely large radiators are placed outside the server room in the open air, dissipating hundreds of kW.

Unless your CPU and/or GPU are thermally throttling, you probably don't need any additional cooling fans to augment those already installed on your radiator. Even if you do improve air flow slightly, a modern CPU will boost the frequency a few more MHz, until thermal limiting resumes during very intensive processor tasks. You might get a CPU to boost by another 50MHz and run at, say, 5.30GHz instead of 5.25GHz, but will it really make any significant difference?

If you live in a hot climate, you may need to invest in air conditioning, but that can get expensive. Otherwise, do what I do in summer and get a desk fan. In winter my computers keep the room warm and saves on (cheaper) gas heating.