Cheap cooling system?

[]V[]essenjah · Post by **[]V[]essenjah** » Fri Jan 19, 2007 12:10 pm

My boss, has me designing some gaming PC's but we are on a pretty tight budget. I need to find a cheap, reliable way to keep a decent gaming rig cool enough. I was actually, wondering if there would be a way to use something to cool multiple PC's? This is for a LAN center. We want to get the ball rolling here.

We want to go with C2D 1.86GHz, 1GB DDR2 RAM, and a GeForce 7600GT for now. We plan to upgrade when we receive enough money to build it up a bit.

Krom · Post by **Krom** » Fri Jan 19, 2007 1:27 pm

Just shop around for a case with decent fans on it, get a retail boxed CPU and use the stock coolers. Even if you are overclocking a bit the Intel boxed cooler is no pushover.

Grendel · Post by **Grendel** » Fri Jan 19, 2007 1:58 pm

x2. Spend some money on a good air condition for the room the PS will be in and keep it at 68F.

Foil · Post by **Foil** » Fri Jan 19, 2007 2:39 pm

(Okay, feel free to delete this, I just thought it was funny.)

[]V[]essenjah · Post by **[]V[]essenjah** » Fri Jan 19, 2007 6:30 pm

LOL, the funny thing is that I thought about actually doing that once.

Yeah, stock coolers are very nice but it would be nice to have some extra fans for insurance. The case we have selected only has a single 120mm fan. I was thinking about an industrial cage fan rigged inside, some kind of metal box or chamber that is air tight. Then attach some kind of large hoses that we can attach to the actual case.

Diedel · Post by **Diedel** » Tue Jan 23, 2007 9:18 am

Messenjah,

Chieftec offers very good low budget cases allowing for two 120 mm fans. Use an Arctic Cooling heatpipe CPU cooler which have a great price/performance ratio (I love these). Add some good quality low noise PSU with 120 mm fan(s), and you should have what you need.