so I'm working on a little change up in my wife's PC I decided to pull out the
uh G1 sniper and go with a more
reasonable board so I'm just using a
Gigabyte uh p67a I'm actually changing the CPU as well I had a 2500k in there
before and I'm going to be putting in a 2600k this is an ancient sample board so
this is actually using the B2 chipset which means I can only use the theta 3 6
GB pers second ports without uh without them eventually dying but that's fine
because I'm only using a single SSD for the boot drive and then uh a SATA
optical drive for this machine and I just the only reason that I'm uh
bringing this up is because actually I'm just going to move this out of the way
it can
sit over here with the other computers
that are on this shelf like motherboards
going on got another one sitting over there anyway that can go there for
now okay so the reason I brought this up is because I'm going to be reconfiguring
the air flow in this machine a little bit because it's been um a little bit
problematic so you know she's like yeah yeah I like the ark midi case it's my
favorite case that's what I want my PC in but she doesn't like this big uh dust
thing going on here so there's a filter on the front of the case but you can see
it accumulates quite a lot of dust um
not very attractive also I've been having some problems with overall dust
buildup inside the case as well and what I realized it's due to the negative air
flow on the case so while the intakes are filtered we so we can keep a lot of
the dust out that way it's still better to maintain positive air pressure inside
the case so what I'm going to be doing is I'm actually going to take this fan
out entirely so I'm not going to have any intake fans
whatsoever and then what I'm going to do well okay oh sorry sorry so I'm not
going to have any intake fans in the front so that'll mean that I won't have
that uh that ring of dust in the front and then what I'm going to do is I'm
going to turn all of these around and
I'm going to use the ones at the top and the back as intakes so what I'm hoping
that will help me achieve is to have uh
overall positive air pressure inside which means that dust is less likely to
get sucked in and little cracks in the case and also by having all the intakes
higher up up I'm hoping that less dust will be brought in in general because it
won't be sitting right on the floor so we'll see how this goes so the purpose
of this video was uh several fold so number one was to talk about positive
air pressure a little bit with respect to uh keeping dust out of your case so
you want to use filtered intakes and then have overall positive pressure
inside the case so that it blows out the little cracks uh number two was cuz
several of you had asked about my um my wife's machine so I figured I'd show you
guys the finished build now that it's done and number three was that since I
was taking it apart anyway because look at this color scheme I mean yeah yeah if
you guys are wondering why I would have downgraded the motherboard the reason is
that this just doesn't go with the
overall look of this particular case so hold on let me just blow out this you
can see the dust ring right not really no okay well whatever it's
there I wish I had compressed air but I
don't
we'll call that good enough okay throw that on there and
now the properly finished build now that
the color scheme has been corrected so I've got my special signature Linus
Edition RAM in there which is blue and black and then everything else see
there's a couple little blue accents there's some blue accents on the heat
sink of the yeah on the heat sink so the motherboard itself and then other than
that we've got a black and gray and white sort of grayscale overall theme
going on in here all of these are just stock Parts I haven't done anything
particularly special because let's face it it's important to me but it's still
not my machine um so uh so
yeah oh yeah so these are all intakes and then this CPU uh cooler doesn't need
any kind of additional cooling since I swapped out the G1 uh Sniper 2 is it
what was it a G1 Sniper 2 something like that yeah Sniper 2 I had to throw in a
sound card so that's just an older aente sound card just because uh I don't have
that awesome onboard audio anymore so we can go ahead and close this up oh yeah
overall specs so we got a 2600k 8 gigs of Linus Edition RAM p67 GB board MSI
GTX 560 Hawk with the twin frozer 3 cooler we've got a PC power and cooling
silencer MK3 modular power supply ocz agility 120 gig
SSD um did I say 2600k already
I'm not sure uh right thermal take Silver Arrow heat sink and then
obviously all of that is in the fractal design Arc
midi and mid tower case there we go so
it's time to put this back and then um I
can have my computer back because that is apparently how this works when this
computer is down I forfeit the right to use mine
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