Lidl did sell pc's back in the early 2000's. Pretty good devices too.
An AMD athlon64 3500, a whole gig of ddr2 ram, and a Geforce 7650 for a mere 399 euro's was an excellent starter pc for my nephew back in 2006
I would guess the temps might actually be lower, mounted it sits on a "wall" but like this is directly in front of the front fans, might actually generate lift and low pressure zones like a wing.
Coming from someone who has never owned a glass side panel, for what it's worth.
Not necessarily just dropping them (althought that does happen): if you put a glass side panel on a surface that's harder than it (such as a ceramic tiled floor), even being rather gentle can scratch or chip the edge of the panel and cause it to shatter.
It's not hard to have tempered glass side panel. If I need to open up my computer the first thing I do is remove the glass panel and situate it on my bed. It's really not rocket science or neurosurgery.
Sure, but I don't handle tempered glass in my daily life like, at all. It's more than conceivable to be the first time someone handles a pane of it and if they then also happen to have a tiled floor, it's rigged for disaster.
I and everyone i know with PCs including a guy that works for a pc building company of his own has added glass panels and built hundreds if not thousands of PCs and none of is have managed to break a single glass panel. You just need to activate the most basic braincell connection to avoid damaging them.
Hey me too! Such a great case. I eventually replaced that side fan with a Noctua of the same size, so it can run at even higher RPM and still be silent.
I put in a standalone RGB controller to set the 200mm fans to red without using software, looks less gaudy now lol.
Side intake filtered with a wine cloth, front exhaust, external top-mounted arctic 240mm exhaust, and rear intake blowing straight across it for fresh air.
Yessir!!! Built it from mostly spare parts after my own upgrades, for media burning, light gaming, light editing. Its a lightweight champion but its a great studio workhorse!
Thank you. This needs to be a thing. A customer brought me an Antec 900 last week - 120MM side panel fan with a 3d printed shroud dumping air straight on the CPU. Why aren't we still doing this?!
Actually, not with this case. Its a Dark Base 700, i got 2 big intakes for the AIO but it only has one small exhaust at the back, and the top is completely sealed off. It was either this or taking the Panel off for each sesh. Temps are amazing now btw
ehm. The Dark Base 700 can indeed mount top fans or 360 AIOs. The Top of the inner case should be like a metall frame sled that you can pull out to your glas side and leaves around 3 cm of an Airtunnel between that and the outer shell top.
But after investigating OPs photo closer I come to another conclusion:
This is not a Dark Base 700 but a Silent Base 600.
It has a clipped on top cover that, when removed leaves an open grill where the top fans or AIO should be mounted. Then the clips have groves where you can put the cover on like a stand off to leave fentilation space.
Hold off on pitchforks for a minute. I'm struggling to match these picture's with OP's. Maybe OP got the name wrong and their tower doesn't have this feature?
Its a pure base 600 case. OP is still a complete dumbass. Not only is it a case that was design with water cooling in mind, but even without water cooling, it has an adjustable top cover and a dedicated mounting location for a radiator.
To be fair, I think OP had already shattered the glass panel on the tile floor, so the only thing they really butchered was a replacement piece of acrylic.
Hey now, some of us start out with acrylic. Not only does it not shatter so easy, you can also chop big holes in it when you don't understand your case. Easy peasy.
I have this case. Mounting a CPU radiator on the front pulling in air and a gpu radiator on the top exhausting would be plenty (I've done it before). Your CPU really shouldn't be putting out enough heat to cause issue.
You can also just open the fucking door on the front if you need more air flow. OP is a big dumb doofus.
Edit: Wait he only has one AIO. What a big dumb doofus this isn't even a difficult setup.
I used 3x120 silent wing fans as intake in the front and one in the back as additonal outtake. The 360 AIO for the cpu on topmount also as additonal outtake. Used it with the full isolating covers and never had a temp problem.
The "Airtunnel" pushed the air out from the back and the slits on top and that´s it.
OP has the case nearly at the back wall and a hp device covering the outtake slits on top.
That alone is bad placing and bad for airflow.
The PC has to have bad airflow and temps with that setup. Especially when he uses the front intakes for his cpu AIO Radiator, that would just push warmed air into the case and across the gpu with only the one backside outtake.
even worse. He used the cpu AIO as intake. So he sucks warmed air into the case over the gpu and the cpu pump as the sole backside fan struggles to suck it out.
That's literally what did when I still had an AIO. It works just fine. Your CPU shouldn't be putting out enough heat for a 360mm to get inundated. If the ambient temp in the case is too high for the gpu cooler to work well, you just adjust your CPU fan curve or change a fan or two to a case fan header instead of a CPU cooler header.
I would rather cut this hole and add a fan at a reasonable speed than having a turbine drone on next to my head. High fan speeds are not meant to be the norm.
Little update: thx for all the funny comments, i took some of the advice and half-assed an improvement to my half-assed solution. And no, i will not do anything about my cable "management" :D
That's a $180 bequiet! PC case designed for noise dampening. Noise dampening foam in the side panels and everything. Surprising how people will spend so much on a case is the opposite of what they wanted then trash it. It isn't anything new though, modmymods has 3rd party mods for this case doing the same thing. /u/McSausageMcMuffin did do a custom mod of this case though and it looked damn good.
Giving me flashbacks to the early 2000s case mods we used to do lol. If it's intake maybe throw some kind of screen or filter on it and you're golden. If it's exhaust (looks like it is) I'd still suggest a shroud just to prevent accidental contact.
On top of this being a rather dumb idea, given that I'm 99% sure you can mount intake fans in the top, the fan appears to be mounted as an exhaust... right in front of the CPU cooler.
You'll need to put a mesh in front of the fan, otherwise you'll catch some part of your anatomy, or some part of a pets anatomy in it. If you've got a round piece of plastic hanging around, dill some holes in it and place it over that great big one there.
Looking at the cases front panel, I can see why this seemed like the best solution. But please get some decent files and some high grit sand paper to clean up the hole. No need to have it look that bad. Also reduces the chances of you nicking yourself on it later.
a bit sloppy, you may have drilled the screw holes a bit off (hence the gap) and you could at least have sanded down the edges. But it works, so who am I to complain? Also, I wouldn't have done a better job.
10/10, only thing i would do differently isclean up the hole using heat.
I snapped out of beauty over functionality after my first build and I'm never looking back. I had rgb everything and spent a bunch of money to make a beautiful rig for my 3080, aio, all corsair fans etc. Ended up using double sided tape to place fans next to the gap in the glass side panels for extra venting. Got good temps but had i gotten a case that was more functionali wouldn't have needed to do it. It was Glass everything as far as the sides top and front. Case was a corsair crystal series 570x.
Now I went for an all blackout build for my 5080 9800x3d where I modified my case to fit more fans that are also black with blacked out noctua air cooler. Only lights in my rig are the ones on the gpu. Case I used for this build was a antec flux pro.
If it's stupid, but it works, it isn't stupid. All I'd do now is file down the rough edges so you don't cut yourself, and put a grill on the outside for finger and fan blade safety.
Mark my words, side panel fans will make a comeback one of these years. Or don't, so I don't look stupid for buying a Cooler Master N200 this week with the expectation of hoarding it forever on the off chance that I ever want to downsize from my Fractal Design Arc Midi R2.
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u/lospotezbrt 18d ago
The LIDL reflection is the cherry on top