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EXTERNALLY DUCTED FOP32
That's right, I've developed a simple yet effective modification , so that the air cooler can breath outside air. I have been sitting on this idea for about 2 months now , and finally on 7 March 2001. I have done the mod to my puter. Now if I had a digital camera I could show you the work right now, but as Im a 35mm user still, you will have to wait for the pics.
You can see from the results that the external ducting has dropped the cpu temp between one and two degrees Celsius in the 3D Mark 2000 demo. This is the same difference as the Delta fan made in the same test, in the fop32 vs fop38 test. So the temp drop is more or less equal to strapping on the Delta fan. The good thing being that you can have your cake and eat it , so to speak, without the noise of the Delta fan. So external ducting works. There is no extra noise, if anything , the ducting material would seem to be acting a little like a muffler. NICE!. Not that the YS-Tech fan is that noisy in the first place, But a plus is a plus. So just how do we do this , first I got a 50mm wall flange (so the box said). This bit of plastic is a hollow tube with double walling on one side, this is where our stubby holder will go when the case side (door) is put back. Its set up like this.
1. The bottom is cut of the stubby holder, the stubby holder is then slipped over the YS-tech fan, this makes a nice airtight extension to the plastic insert. You cut a hole in the comp door , over the cooler, correctly aligned down the middle of the fan. The plastic plumbing part goes in with the double wall facing the inside, the stubby holder fits nicely between the two walls and makes a nice almost airtight fit. Its a bit tricky getting the stubby holder in between the two walls when putting the side (door) back on the puter but not nearly impossible. No glue was used during the instillation , and no problems encountered. And by shucks , it works. My fop32 is breathing outside air.
Here are the pics.
Fire in the hole. This is what you see looking in from the outside.
The FOP32 cooler in my puter.
The FOP32 with the stubby holder fitted.
Looking down the stubby holder. Yes that is a FOP32 at the bottom.
This is how the stubby holder fits into the wall flange. Its so easy.
Here you can see the double walling of the wall flange, the stubby holder fits in snug as a bug.
And the end result, an external air breathing Fop32.
So , what you need . is 1 stubby holder, 1 wall flange to fit, and a hole in your side cover
sorry almost forgot , a Global Win Fop32 or Fop 38 air cooler.