Close Encounters With The Drive Bay Fans :)

[Thisn2s]

I recently came by the store and found this weird set of fans that mount into the 5.25" bays of the case. They look like three fans (intakes) encased into some sort of bay which fits like a CD-Rom drive.

Do they really work well? It's quite pricey compared to the standard 80mm fans.

Because if so, I'm willing to buy it over the 80mm ones.

[colin]

Try to findout in a search of fan,s etc and take a round of market and also take a look what it is giving you mean what benifit you have for it?

[SlothX311]

Originally Posted by Thisn2s

Do they really work well?...Because if so, I'm willing to buy it over the 80mm ones.

depending on your case layout they can be very very helpful... one situation when they come in handy is when you have a very high wattage power supply with, lets say, 2 fans for ventilation, 1 in the back of the pc pulling hot air out, and one inside the pc, right behind the optical drives pulling the air through the power supply....if you were to add a bay fan system you could help circulate the air, and possibly lower your core temp

another way that these are beneficial is in a situation where you are out of 3.5" bays and would like to add another hard drive, they usually have a space in the center of the tray for you to put a hard drive in and secure it... this is very very helpful if you would like to run a high rpm hard drive or a RAID array, and are worried about the drive heating up...(servers use these in high quantity RAID arrays)


while these bay systems may be efficient they still do not replace the rear 80mm fans, and i would recommend more passive cooling rather than less... i had 14 fans in my last passive cooling overclocked RAID system that i built ... the more fans, the louder your rig is, but the longer it will live

[karim 6123]

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