[mythtv-users] Re-finishing a low-profile case w/ silent parts

Quinten Steenhuis qsteenhuis at gmail.com
Wed Jul 21 17:42:03 UTC 2010


That is a good thought. The front, back and sides are all open to air
flow right now, but I might be able to raise it a little further off
of the wooden surface it sits on now.

On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 1:36 PM, Dan Wilga
<mythtv-users2 at dwilga-linux1.amherst.edu> wrote:
> Another thing to consider is where your case, itself, resides. I had my HTPC
> in a wooden cabinet which had no ventilation. As a result, there was nowhere
> for all that heat being pushed out of my case to go, and the internal fans
> had to work harder.
>
> I made a hole in the back of my cabinet, installed a 120 mm AC fan with a
> step-down transformer--so it wouldn't run at full speed--and started using
> it to push air out the back of the cabinet. Now my case and CPU fans can run
> more slowly, while keeping the whole system cooler than before. So the whole
> thing is quieter than it used to be, despite having added a new fan.
>
> --
> Dan Wilga                                                        "Ook."
>
>


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