Re: Asus P5K Deluxe Heat pipes

On Mon, 10 Mar 2008 14:58:17 +1300, "~misfit~"
<misfit61nz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Somewhere on teh intarweb "Paul" typed:
Mr. Bro wrote:
Building a system using this MB. I thought I read somewhere that
a fan can be connected to the heat pipe radiator. Is this correct?
If so, what size fan and how to connect it to radiator, providing
I have enough room in the case. I'll be using an Antec P-182.

bbro

The fan installation page is missing from the manual :-(

Instead, go to the support.asus.com site, go to download,
and download the P5K3 Deluxe manual. (I have the E3301
manual in front of me.) PDF Page 61 Section 2.7.3 has
color pictures of what to do.

The fan snaps onto the top of one of the MOSFET heatsinks.

You can see a picture of the fan, in the Newegg picture for
P5K3 Deluxe. Apparently the fan is included with that one.
I don't know how much good a fan that size is going to do.
The fan works like a squirrel cage blower, and shoots the
air down into the fins.

http://c1.neweggimages.com/NeweggImage/productimage/13-131-181-06.jpg

The fans are actually quite grunty and move a bunch of air. I built for a
mate using a P5KE-Deluxe and he didn't need them as they're for use with H2O
cooling. (They can compete against air from an air-cooling solution and
cause a dead-spot.)

I've got them in my drawer, I'm sure I'll find a use for them sometime. My
P5KE-WiFi-AP only has one of the MOSFET coolers (I made another one up for
the other bank myself) and I'm using a Tt Mini-Typhoon to cool so don't need
them for my board either.

I actually tried to get some after I got my board, before I did the mate's
build, from the NZ importer, just to see if they could be of use on my
build. "Sorry, only available as part of the mobo package".

If you are worried about heat, get yourself the Antec 900 case. I just
installed my P5K-E WIFI into one of these. I am running a Q6600 , 4
SATA hard drives, 2 DVD rom writers. Using PC Wizard 2008, my CPU temp
is sitting at 20c, cores are running at 33c and mainboard is at 28c.
The case has a 200mm fan on top, 120mm at rear and 2x120mm at front of
drive bays. Each bay holds 3 drives and has 1 of the front fans
mounted to it. Also has a space for a side case fan as an option. I
did install a fan here. If you are using only one of the hard drive
bays, you receive another fan mount for the rear of the cage for
another 120 mm to cool your full legnth video card. As well the front
bay inserts are perforated to allow more air through.....
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