Front panel dust screens....

[StrongSad]

I bought a noise blocker silent pro to go into my Corsair Case.

The idea was to reduce the noise of the installed 120mm fan that came with the case.

That went a bit south when the NB was louder than the existing fan. It was a couple of mm in width more but it was the dust screen that was restricting the airflow.

I removed the screen and tried again but was still to loud.

Anyway to my point.

I have reinstalled the original fan, less the dust screen. My temps have dropped over 10%, playing GTA V with X4 MSAA n all the other whistles n bells, my GPU did not exceed 50c. (sat around 48 for most part) My 4790k did not exceed 65c

Tried it on Fire Strike extreme for 30 mins and again, the GPU did not exceed 57c CPU highest was 68c.

I know dust screens are a good thing for preventing dust but I just don;t see the benefit if the case is off the floor. Given the improvement the reduction of component temps, if it just not better to blow it all out once in a while as I do anyway?

 

[Disco_P]

I removed all the dust filters from my h440. Pointless if you keep the room clean and blow the dust out every couple of months.

The exception is power supplies as they are hard to monitor and clean.

 

[StrongSad]

I removed all the dust filters from my h440. Pointless if you keep the room clean and blow the dust out every couple of months.

The exception is power supplies as they are hard to monitor and clean.

Still have the one for my power supply as well...

I just can't get over how much of a difference it makes to the cooling of my system....

 

[VincentHanna]

My PC is in the same room the dog sleeps.

Even with regular vacuuming, there's always hairs everywhere so these are needed for me.

But my CPU and GPU's are Water cooled anyway so the 2x 140mm front case fans probably aren't cooling much down anyway.