Power supply extra cooling help.

[drade]

I have a power supply (yes everyone does) and it has a an intake fan that blows a tiny bit of cold air in (inside the case) and hot air from the back, can i put an 80mm fan on the inside were it blows a little bit of the cold air in, and get rid of the hot air from the back?To make good cooling? When it does get a heavy load reading it pushes alot of hot air from the back and warms up my radaitor a little, this is my power supply http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817153023 Thanks, I really hope I can to improve some cooling

[newmodder]

i did the same thing wit my old 350 watt psu

[drade]

Did it work better then like before make stuff better?

[drade]

Also will this decrease my power supply in any way?

[Frogger]

this psu has thermally controled fans [hotter psu= fast fan spin ] an 80mm fan is 25mm thick don't know how much spacoe you have in front of psu, with cables and all, to mount said fan HOWEVER I have done this for lots of people for sure you can do FIND [local used/new computer store] old/new AMD CPU fan with or without hear sink ie thermaltake SLIM VOLCANO 8 OR 7 the fan on them is 10mm/60mm/60mm and will spin at 4500/4800 as opposed to 1900/2500 rpm on 80mm
takes up less space more air flow mount inside of tower on psu remove 1 screw from psu fan gridle use longer screw[not too long] and rubber washer mount over fan hole use 4pin to 3 pin pwer adapter good to go

[drade]

I have a ton of room from my power supply to my cables inside its huge case, can i use a normal fan, mount it inside were the cold airtake is coming on top of the fan grill pushing air in my case i do have alot of room, thanks.

[KennyT772]

yeah you can. i would reccomend puting it in the panel above your cpu if possible. all you have to do is find one of the 12v leads inside the psu and solder away.

[drade]

So my setup what i said erlier just put were the cold air coming pushing it in my case would make it run better and cool my case, my case does run fairly hot considering im in a heated room.

[KennyT772]

hmm what kind of cooling setup do you have? i have 2 80mm intakes, 2 80mm exhaust, and 2 more 80's in my TT420w psu. even though my case is room temp my psu is always spittin out warm air. i really wouldnt worry about your psu unless its either 1 reallly hot or 2 very loud. most psus like mine have onboard thermal control that keeps the heatsinks inside below 45c.

[drade]

Well my probe says about 30-45c load, i mean yea its an amazing power supply but it runs hot, but warms up one of my radiators, i had a 120 mm radaitor on the back and an 80 mm pushing air in the front at a low 1000 rpm same one pushing out hot hd air in the front at 1000 rpm, boost them up to about 2700 rpm gaming, and side fan running at 2800 rpm full time, I think it will increase a little bit of the case temps, and may cool down my components somewhat, but If it decreases my power supply in any way, wich i highly doubt i have seen other people do it then i wont do it, if not so tell me what you think, idle my case runs 95 f and max 90 with fans on high, im in a heated room so.

[trog100]

without knowing how hot your "heated" room is its impossible to say.. its the ratio between room ambient and internal case thats important.. my internal case is about 1.5c over room.. ???

my power supply also blows out.. he he..

trog

[Dynamic]

There is not a single PSU that exhausts air into a case, only intakes from inside case and exhausts outside the case. I would be extra careful when you remove the casing of the PSU, because i wouldn't want you to be on the front page in the NewYork Times...that PSU can kill you...if you didn't know. Not worth it, get something better or try a better stradegy.