Still it's better to have the HDD's at the bottom in current cases (as
heat rises) the top of the case IS hotter than bottom AND cool air comes
in from the bottom.
Do like the idea of a heat tunnel, wind tunnel, whatever in this case
design as it would concentrate air flow where it's needed. Cool air in
over HDD, then into fan, then into PSU & out while being "insulated"
from the rest of the case.
I'm also guessing the back fan would blow in over the chip set vs.
exhaust like current designs do, then exhaust up & out. No need for side
blow holes then? Interesting to see if anyone does a benchmark to see if
it's truly better cooling.
From the mechanical drawing I'd say looks impressive.
http://www.antec.com/pdf/drawings/P180_manual_techdata.pdf
Thane Sherrington (S) wrote:
At 02:52 PM 14/10/2005, Greg Sevart wrote:
Get used to it..this is how many new cases are designed.
The PSU and hard drives are contained in a partition in the bottom.
The PSU (and sometimes another fan) draws air over the HDs, cooling
them, and another fan is used to exhaust hot air at the top.
Really seems like a decent design to me...
Except that with heat rising, it makes more sense to me to put the CPU,
HD and CDROM at the top of the case, with vanes above them to allow the
heat to rise, and a fan at the front to pull air in and one at the back
to exhaust it out.
Lots of cases put the HDs at the bottom, and even with a great fan
system, you still get heat rising into the case.
T
