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| Fan Duct Installed |
Looking rather bulky I couldnt find any good place to install the fan duct unit inside my case. The snout design would give an indication that you need to place it above the CPU but this isnt going to happen in any case Ive ever worked in. -the unit it simply too large and the case is just to thin (I have a full tower). So I found the best place I could in my case which ended up being above the power supply! Since the unit it so large I had to remove my power supply to make room to squeeze it in, but once its actually in place my power supply (although snug) did go back to its mounting place.
Testing explained
Since testing cooler after cooler involves -mounting each cooler separately, then making changes to the system board jumpers or GFD jumpers, its really not very feasible for us to install the coolers in a case, because obviously things would get a little tangled and frustrating having to reach inside a case to make changes each time a different test is run. For that reason the tests are performed on a open air computer or in other words, a complete computer built outside the case.
So when testing the Fan Duct unit I chose a complete incased system I had running an Intel PIII 533 MHZ processor running at the stock 533MHZ atop a DFI motherboard -with a Matrox 16 meg AGP video card, a Sony CD-RW drive, Internal Zip drive, and Toshiba DVD drive. I ran the same CPU crunch test on the PIII chip as I ran in the other Athlon cooling tests, along with disk defrag on the hard drive, DVD Tach from TCD labs on the DVD, and the Forsaken Demo running on the video card -to try and heat things up in the case. I let this run for about 30 minutes, then took temperature readings from the hardware monitoring agent that comes shipped with the DFI motherboard, and heres what I came up with.
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I wonder whether it would fit into other cases easily, like you say Guest, or if it would be problematic for most cases, like the author says.
My guess is that the damn case he had happened to be too narrow or thin. A retest would definitely be interesting.
If the reviewer had attempted to install the unit in several different cases and then arrived at a conclusion, perhaps the review would have been at least somewhat legitimate.
Richard arbitrarily & knowingly placed the unit in a case it does not fit, then wrote an entire review with that single circumstance. I find that about as useful as using some duct tape to strap a printer cartridge to the inside of the case and then writing an entire article on the effects.
On the other hand, I am hoping he has tried the thing in various cases of different sizes and everything. OTherwise his statement about it not fitting in cases he has worked with is a little presumptious.
And yet no response from Richard, Redemption or Ether. Come'on guys. Did you test on multiple cases or what?
in his defence, I believe someone mentioned that the duct didn't have good documentation, and I a quick scan through the website didn't get me anything. I really hate
(please note that Richard and I don't work together, so I don't really know what was going on. We're like in different countries
I think that the final decision was that Richard is so busy with other projects that we can't really redo the duct review at this time. If we had that thing here we could probably get someone to do it. Maybe one day in the future.
My question is how come people don't get more riled up over my reviews. I get enough emails but nobody in the forums cares!
I reviewed this case / cpu cooler in a full tower case -which I might add even had room for an additional power supply. There was plenty of room for the cooler where the power additional supply could have went, but not anywhere close to where the CPU was. I've worked on computers for a long time, and have seen many a cases. But the way the Fan-duct cooler is designed -I feel is a waste of plastic, and I wanted to get that message through to the people (you guys) before you went out and spent your hard earned cash on something that most likely wounldn't fit! In all practicle computer cases -this thing just isn't small enough to make it worth much of anything. In my opinion, a simple added case fan is JUST as effective! Thanks for the posts!