Airflow Question...

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Hi all,

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

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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
 
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
 
unless your HDD/SSD holder is vented thru the sides i personally would swap it round 90 degress so the flow goes thru it over the drives and doesnt hit a brick wall that bottom fan will also then push air at the ass end of your PSU. might not make a lot of diference but it will help.
 
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
 
I've always stuck to in bottom / front and out top / rear, With 3 rads in there and it's always worked fine for me.
 
Guru said:
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
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is there no room behind the motherboard tray for the SSDs ? Or in the top right cage even?
 
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.
 
I think the green fan as exhaust is probably the best use for it.

It looks like if you remove the HDD cage at the bottom you may be able to add a fan there instead, that'd be great as another intake.

Either way I'd try and keep more intake than exhaust fans so you get positive pressure in there and reduced dust.
 
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 :)
 
What Aberfala said.

I usually remove the PCIe back slot covers for more airflow back and out of case around GPU. Experiment with raising the case up 20-30mm so there is better airflow to bottom vents. I usually use an caster base that looks like a picture frame (center open for airflow to vents), but many things work; spray can caps, bottle caps, kids wooden blocks, etc.
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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. :)
 
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