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Introduction
Since the idea behind a good processor cooler is to get the heat away from the CPU itself where is the hot air supposed to go? Well, thats where case fans or even the power supplies come in to play. Case fans are usually 80mm or larger in size and install either on the front of the case pulling air in, or on the back of the case taking air out. Power supplies have a built in fan designed to not only pull a constant stream of fresh air over the internal voltage regulators and transforms of the power supply itself, but to provide a way of venting air from the inside of the case outside. This is done by having the exhaust fan point out the rear of the computer and sucking air through vent holes on the portion of the power supply thats inside the case.
In order to get more cooling Global Win has designed a Fan duct system that takes the best of both worlds and combines them, by having a case fan mounted inside an air duct unit to help suck the air out the rear of the case. But can it really provide any additional cooling over standard case cooling methods?
Operation Voltage DC 9V ~ 15V
Rated Voltage DC 12V
Rated Current DC 0.18A
Input Power 2.16WATT
Bearing System Two Ball Bearing
Fan Speed 3000 RPM+/- 15%
Air Delivery 33CFM
Noise Level 34 Dba
Fan Safety CE, UL, TUV, and CSA Approved
Fan with RPM signal output Yes
Fan Duct
Material PET
Dimension For K7 System
For PIII System
Total Weight 50g
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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!