Antec P180 - fans/best cooling

[gooner_47]

Basically, what's the best way to have the fans set up?

I'm gonna be using Akasa ambers so should be nice and quiet anyway.

Do I need the fan in the bottom chamber or will the PSU pull enough air through?

Should I mount the hd's in the bottom chamber or in the top section?

Should I have 2 exhaust fans, and 1 intake... 1 exhaust fan, 1 intake..... 2 exhaust fans, 0 intake...... 1 exhaust fan, 0 intake........ ???

i could go on lol

 

[gooner_47]

nice, thanks for the input

anyone else?

 

[gooner_47]

/snip/

2 exhausts in upper chamber, one amber and one nexus (was testing how quiet it was, will be replacing all the ambers with them soon). And the X1900 blows out the back too.

PSU is the exhaust in the lower chamber.

HDD's are all located in the upper chamber, 3 of them (2 raptors 34gb and 1 maxtor 350gb)

Temperatures are good.

Sam C

what's the temperature of the raptors? do you think it'd be higher if you had them mounted in the bottom section without the fan

 

[gooner_47]

cheers people