2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
I do not recommend theee for modern computers,
February 18, 2007 Kid Prometheus "The Lad from Hades" (danger zoned) - See all my reviews
This review is from: 5.25" Bay Freezer Fan Black (Personal Computers)
not only are they old design they are clunky at best. I would only recommend for slow(and anceint) PCs dating as far as the K6 II days. I would NEVER stick this in a case with a core duo or any such crazy suicidal thing. their are much better and more effieceint and robust ways of cooling even the most dated cmoputers. great for the old AT case, and a Voodoo 3 card(as in dinosaure) not much else.
3 of 6 people found the following review helpful
probably unnecessary,
November 30, 2005 bandazar - See all my reviews
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This review is from: 5.25" Bay Freezer Fan Black (Personal Computers)
After doing extensive research on the web about cooling computers and also experimenting with my on PC as the optimal configuration of cooling the inside of the PC, I've concluded that these front fans are probably uncessary. And if you don't mind about "looks", then you can always just leave the front bays open and just put a large fan in the front of it.
I think an HP site also did some experiments and concluded that front end fans were not only unnecessary, they could also interfere with airflow.
In any event I did not see a significant drop in temperature from the use of these fans (although some people have on some other web sites). The only things that have really cooled down the inside of my pc was to either leave the case off (which of course lets dust in everywhere), or to use one of those sideways fans that you put in the PCI slots (where you usually put your soundcard, etc..). Other fans in the back and in the side helped somewhat of course.
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