Cut it in a nice shape, drilled the holes.
Painted the whole thing, including some foam I cut up for a better seal.
(Ignore the giant mess lol…my family neglected this garage)
I think it turned out nice. Should prevent some spill damage doo.
Temps before and after in the same exact test conditions (same tune, benchmark, no background apps etc). I used Furmark and Cinebench 2024)
GPU before: 62 GPU, 85 Hot, 76 Mem
GPU after: 55 GPU, 78 Hot, 66 Mem (adjusted for +3C ambient)
CPU before: 62C
CPU after: 63C (66C recorded, but ambient was +3C)
No benchmark score improvements but the GPU temp dropped a lot.
What’s the material? What did it look like before? I guess there were fan holes but no fans?
It’s a piece of another older PC case. Dunno what metal it is exactly. Probably some aluminum alloy because it feels lighter than steel.
Yea there were open fan holes. These are the only pictures I could find from before:
Thanks. Looks good. I probably would have been lazy and used black duct tape.
It’s interesting how the air flow changes when you leave fan spots empty. I even had a computer that ran cooler with the side of the case off… until it got to high temperatures (and thus higher fan speeds). With the side of the case off the temperatures would take a long time to move up but would end up going really high. With the case all closed up and the fans in place, it would get up to temperature faster but then would stay there, even at high usage (though the temperature was too high, which is why I was investigating.)
Yea it’s because if the case is open, the air isn’t forced through the radiators.
In my case it was going from the front right up and back out of the case, so a bit of air was missing basically every component.
Now that it’s covered it can only go front to back and has to pass through the components.
