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My GAMING LAPTOP!! : Acer Aspire 5930G - P8400 2.26Ghz//4 GB DDR2//GeForce 9600M GT 512MB GDDR3
Ultimate Handheld/Portable Gaming Device :P

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All you guys would be proud. What do you think Sam?

I turned around the side exhaust, and now it's a side inlet. The filter is on the way. My final design will be 3 inlets and 4 exhausts. For the side inlet fan, (I'm moving the 800 rpm 120mm scythe to the top) I found a 1600 scythe S-flex at Frozen CPU for $15, $5 less than Newegg!!

I went to Frozen CPU to pick up a 120mm grill like the last one I bought from them for the side fan. So I'll have two quiet-but-powerful 1600rpm 120mm inlet fans rated at about 60cfm each, a small 80mm hsf auto inlet fan, and then an 800 rpm scythe 120mm top exhaust, psu 80mm back exhaust, regular back 80mm exhaust, and blitztorm turbine card back exhaust. The 3850 I get, the Sapphire, won't exhaust out the back. The blitztorm can be turned down all the way to mild, otherwise it is NOISY, and the high-speed back 80mm is also NOISY - but I have a quiet one I could replace it with.



I could make the whole rig quieter that way - but first I want to see how cool everything runs. I don't really care since I game with headphones. My rational on beefing the side inlet from 800 to 1600rpm is that I want a lot of air flow coming in right there on the gpu.

What do you think Sam? It's no Tempest, but it's probably going to be a fairly balanced air-flow, which will let me get away with saving $60 on a sapphire 3850 dumping the hot air inside the case (instead of the HIS more elegant rear-exhaust card.) I'll end up keeping this gaming rig around as a spare for the next five years, even after the new build, the way estuansis does.

What I did just now cost about $40 - it doesn't really make a lot of sense - I could have just bought the more elegant rear-exhaust 3850. But the idea of top exhaust has me intrigued, so one more final mod, some drilling and hack sawing on the top of the case (the grill will hide my mistakes) and better air-flow!!

I HAVE TO BLAME ALL YOU GUYS HERE for talking about cases so much :D Interestingly enough, Mo, my computer shop buddy, had built me another P4, 3 or 4 years ago, a cream case with a green plastic see-through bit of iMac-style adornment on the front. I use the "green" computer as my daily workhorse running my real estate - I'm using it right now to write this post. It's a 2.8ghz - I got that a few months before he built me the 3.2ghz, 533 buss, x850xtpe gaming rig. But the "green" case always had a top exhaust baffle which I ignored, until GTR started talking about the HAF and Ray and Shaff and Sam and Boozer and Cincy and Estuansis and everybody started debating cases.

That "green" computer has been giving me problems, and I opened up the case and ended up throwing out the bad 9800 graphics card - I have an on-board mobo Rage graphics chip I am plugging into temporarily.

While I was doing that I installed an 80mm exhaust fan on the pre-drilled holes on the top of that case. It doesn't need the cooling help now, but it will get the rear-exhaust x850xtpe I'm going to pull from my gaming rig when the 3850 finally shows up - maybe within the next two weeks since an escrow is about to close. So all these years my slower p4 had a top exhaust grate - but nothing at all on the "better" faster gaming rig case. He had moved to a different case manufacturer - with no top-of-case air-flow grate. In my complete ignorance, I never noticed the change - UNTIL NOW!

(On next year's new build - all the graphics cards will be rear-exhaust. I'll be checking a lot with Sam and going for a quieter design as well - all 120mm or larger fans - probably the Tempest, or maybe the HAF depending on price. I'll probably game still with headphones, but estuansis - you got me all excited about carrying the PC in and powering up the HDTV. I might do that one day. Lol)
-Rich

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