Cooling from above

[Steffen Barabasch]

>I built my own in about 10 minutes. The fan sits on top of my vent;
>the clothespin is attached to the corner of the fan, as if it rests
>flat on the it rattles.  It ain't pretty, but I've got my cooling
>needs covered until the upgrade paths become clearer.

This is pretty ugly, but indeed the best way to cool a Cube. The heat 
gets sucked out of the machine and everything is well cooled down.

My Cube (and the display) stands on a wall-mounted shelf/board, about 
10cm above the desktop, and I built a fan into the board right below 
the Cube. So the Cube gets some additional cooling from the board 
it's standing on. Quite cool. No modding of the Cube itself, and 
still nice looking. And sufficiently effective. From normal 42C down 
to 30C with the fan running at 7V, still down to 36C with the fan at 
5V (spinning so slowly, most HDs are louder). So when I can bear the 
(little) noise I switch the fan to 7V and help my Cube a bit with the 
cooling job. My way of saying thanks for years of quiet computing ;-)

Steffen
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Steffen Barabasch (mailto:TheMirror at westend.com)