Mach II Push Pull Front Fan Config?

[Barkerd]

Guys,

Has anyone here ever put a fan in front of the rad on their Mach II in a push pull configuration to get more air thru their prom?

Any thoughts on ..

1. What difference it would make - noise versus performance?

2. How to wire it up, e.g. splice into wires on the other front fan, and whether chipcon board would provide enough juice?

I am thinking about this as a way of getting a little more air thru a Baker Extreme without needing to go turbo 24/7 ...

 

[fatty]

I am sure you could perhaps buy some same size silent fans and use them I cant remember the name but basicaly same size i think they have more blades but run quieter

 

[standin wave]

Guys,

Has anyone here ever put a fan in front of the rad on their Mach II in a push pull configuration to get more air thru their prom?

Any thoughts on ..

1. What difference it would make - noise versus performance?

2. How to wire it up, e.g. splice into wires on the other front fan, and whether chipcon board would provide enough juice?

I am thinking about this as a way of getting a little more air thru a Baker Extreme without needing to go turbo 24/7 ...

I know from what Marci has said that the chipcon board will not presently provide loadsa juice

sw

 

[ZaX]

Guys,

Has anyone here ever put a fan in front of the rad on their Mach II in a push pull configuration to get more air thru their prom? ...

I actually tried this, I had a spare 120 mm fan so I blue tacked it to the front intake (sucking in obviously) and wired it up to my fan controller. I monitored the temps at load and idle and sadly to say it didnt make a spot of difference Would have been good too because it was totally concealed by the alu kit. Maybe I was doing something wrong, would be good if someone else could try it and report back.

 

[Firelord]

When I had a Mach I I tried this using an Antec Blue fan (bout 100cfm iirc) and ran it off a fan controller...

During the day and normal running it made about 1-2c diff on the evap but at night when cooler and was benching it did make nearly a 5c diff on some nights which was the difference between a benchmark being able to complete and not

 

[Psykotik]

Due to the restrictive nature of the front of my Prommi (custom built Black Widow matching job, yes I hacked a Black Widow in half) I had little chi=oice bt to add a second fan.

Thankfully it does a blindingly good job of moving some air through

 

[standin wave]

Due to the restrictive nature of the front of my Prommi (custom built Black Widow matching job, yes I hacked a Black Widow in half) I had little chi=oice bt to add a second fan.

Thankfully it does a blindingly good job of moving some air through

make and model would help m8

sw

 

[Barkerd]

I have been speaking to Phil who has the Mach II Panalflo fans in stock, so maybe that might be better having the same fan push and pull - mmm?

 

[matisamd]

like most air cooling, if you add a delta screamming along at full blast 190CFM you probably see a max difference in temp of about 6 degree's celcius. For me it almost always turns out that if you take about 2% off the extreme clock and you can drop voltages enough to have an extreme system thats as quiet as any single fan dell desktop, hehe my system is so quiet at idle the st running at standard, is the noiseiest thing, and thats pretty well quieter then the spinning and reading of the hard disks.

better ways to get more out like a new head should drop you about 10C or a regas. Or a nice volt mod. Or why not try water cooling yuor prommy well its much better then air soo, it could go prommy> watrer> air hehe go on i just wanna see some do this i bet you could achieve some nice temps if you could 10 maybe even 20 C at a guess

 

[Psykotik]

If you read Dave's first post you'll see he is planning on doing this in order to achieve more airflow through a Baker Extreme (a Prometeia with a Baker head, and an R507 regas) so getting a new head and a regas would be pointless in his case

I used the biggest Panaflo 120mm I could find, which is nearly the same size as the Prommi fans, and I control it with a manual rheostat

 

[Barkerd]

If you read Dave's first post you'll see he is planning on doing this in order to achieve more airflow through a Baker Extreme (a Prometeia with a Baker head, and an R507 regas) so getting a new head and a regas would be pointless in his case

I used the biggest Panaflo 120mm I could find, which is nearly the same size as the Prommi fans, and I control it with a manual rheostat

Never bothered with a fan controller before just relying on a voltage reducing connectors bringing fans down from 12v to 10v or 7v, but now is probably a good time to look at something a bit more variable ... thanks for all the info guys ...

 

[fatty]

Ok the prom fans are in the region of 86 cfm of air movement and correct me if i am wrong 35.5 db noise levels with a modded one you can run them at 2000rpm a little lower than max so I guess technicaly you could perhaps buy thermaltake thunderblade a1926 120mm blue (or any colour blue is my fav lol) led case fan 78cfm at 21 db o a little quieter but a little less air but should do the job