Airflow tutorials?

Antowns

Antowns

Antowns

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Hi all,

Are there any good tutorials or principles for airflow? Where do you guys recommend placing the intake and out-take fans? I've got two fan mounts on the top, one on the back, one on the bottom and one on the front which is stock as intake (and is very hard to get to).
 
In at the front and side - Out at the top and back.

That would do me. ;)

Tutorial over!!

Actually, I'm running a Corsair H50 in a CoolerMaster CM 690 case.
I ignored the advice that came with the H50 as I didn't want warm air flowing into my case.
I screwed the radiator directly to the case, at the back and used the supplied Corsair fan, which is screwed directly to the radiator to extract air out of the back of the case.
The front and side fans blow in, and I have a fan at the top that blows outwards, mainly to extract air from the graphics card.

It works great and keeps everything cool but I don't run a massive overclock. (currently I don't have an overclock!!)
 
simples in at front / bottom and out top / rear, this brings cool air in over your hd, gpu and cpu, and you will get negative pressure. (more sucked out than pushed in). sounds like you set up is like that allready.
 
I'm not planning on overclocking at all, don't really want to void the warranty and break things.. :) As it happens I've got a Corsair cooler on my CPU at the moment so putting a fan on the side won't be possible as it sits within hair's width of the side of the case.

I was gonna use the bottom as an out as I don't really want dust coming in through the bottom, reckon that's a good thing to do?

Edit; I suppose I could get a filter to prevent the dust from coming in
 
no to bottom out (heat rises), a filter is a good idear, also witch way round is you psu (botom of the case? and fan facing up or down?)
 
u are basically trying to create a draught, that gets air moving quickly through your case.
as already mentioned, usually front, side and bottom are intakes.
rear and top are exhausts.
there are rare occasions when its slightly different.


also overclocking your cpu does not affect the warranty. ;)
OcUK sell preoverclocked bundles, that have the same warranty.
 
As above but be aware you want more air coming in (filtered) than going out.

If you have more air going out than going in you will have negative pressure, which sucks because your pc will get filthy.
 
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