Airflow Question...

Guru · 5 Jun 2017 at 11:43

Hi all,

Just wondering about Airflow in my case. Rig looks like this currently:

Would people have the green fan at the back taking air out or pulling air in?

At the moment the two fans at the front pull air into the case, the two on the rad that you can see push air out the case and there are two on the other side of the rad that you can't see which pull air through the rad and out of the top of the case.

The big fan at the back pushes air out the back of the case currently.

Just wondered if that is the best way or not?

Cheers,

G

Guru · 5 Jun 2017 at 13:09

Yeah I'd spotted yet, the card weighs a tonne, what can I do about it?

/edit saying that I don't know if it's the angle of the camera, the fans at the top don't look straight either and they are attached to the case.

Cheers,

G

Guru · 5 Jun 2017 at 13:35

Cheers dude, I'm not sure I can turn the cage round.

I'm tempted to remove the mechanical drive and remove the cage, maybe put the SSDs somewhere else.

I have 1TB of SSDs now so don't really need the 500GB mechanical any more, it's just full of shadow play bs that I never get round to trimming lol

Part of the reason I didn't have the green fan pulling air in was because the PSU sucks cold air in from the bottom and puts it out the back, wasn't sure if the green fan would just pull it back in and feed it to the CPU cooler.

Wonder if I could fashion some kind of ramp to attach to the drive cage to push the bottom fans air upwards lol

Guru · 5 Jun 2017 at 15:31

I would almost certainly be able to move them to the top right if nothing else

could probably put the HDD in there too tbh uf there is room with the fan controller wires.

Guru · 6 Jun 2017 at 09:06

Ah nice I didn't think of that, I actually have a spare of the front fans so I could use that where the cage is, good shout

The bottom and front are filtered so that should be perfect cheers

Guru · 6 Jun 2017 at 11:05

That's very interesting, cheers for that

The feet on my case are like 3-4cm so there is plenty of space under the case. I've also put a thin sheet of wood underneath so it's not just sucking on the carpet.