Cant get air out/in to my case fast enough.

wozzsta

wozzsta

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I currently have 2 x120mm intakes at the front bottom of my case and one 120mm out take at the rear top.

And too me it seems its just not enough air getting out, i dont really have space to add another fan, should i turn the fans around and have two exhausting at the bottom and one at the top for an intake?

Or any other ideas?

This is my case.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-007-SH&groupid=701&catid=7&subcat=2178

here is a pic of the insides

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with the side off i get a 5-10c drop in temps at load, and i know when u take the side off temps tend to drop, but 5-10c is quite a lot. so air isnt getting in or out fast enough.
 
can you not mount the cpu cooler oriented east to west?

As it stands now, your cooler is exhausting onto your graphics card.
 
SeraphX said:
can you not mount the cpu cooler oriented east to west?

As it stands now, your cooler is exhausting onto your graphics card.
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erm im not sure, but tbh i have never though of that, if i can that would certainly help matters.


EDIT: just looked at the manual, turns out thats how its meant to be installed woopsy
thanks
 
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Ignore the manual, it's stupid, remove the cooler and orient it so it's sucking air from the front, and exhausting to the back,

also your case looks like it has a grill for the Psu on the bottom, might be better to turn the psu so the fan is facing down, that way it's drawing cold air in from outside the case instead of warm air that's lingering about.
 
You have a non reference GFX cooler that farts out its hot air into the case, not out the back via the PCI bracket like reference coolers. This causes non linear airflow as it will be blasting some air towards the front of the case out the side of the card creating hot pockets when the side panel is on, having the side panel off will allow all that hot air to escape.

If you have a the option of a side panel fan, use it and experiment with it in taking or outputting to see if it gives you better results with temps.

I had 2 x MSI GTX580 with Frozr ii coolers and they were terrible for raising the ambient temperature in the case for the amount of hot air they spit out, had a plexi side panel but swapped to mesh and added 4 x 120mm fans to my side panel which sorted it out but that was noisy so i water cooled them instead :)
 
hmm might replace the plexi with mesh and add some fans, im sure that would work along with facing my CPU cooler towards the back of the case.

With all that im reckon ide get some nice cool temps.

Thanks for the help guys.
 
I was always advised to keep "positive" air pressure ie more coming in than going out but this advise goes back 5 or so years!

Cotti.
 
As said above, turn HSF blowing front to back.

I would compare temps with PSU as is (intake up) and turned over.

"Positive" air pressure gets most votes, especially with filters on intakes catching dust.

Optical drives suffer from negative pressure because dust is sucked into them.
 
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where did you get your mesh from i cant find any good stuff online.
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I have a Corsair 650D which has an optional mesh side panel avilable that you can replace the plexi with, if there isnt one available for your case then you'd have to mod one on.

I looks like your plexi is attached with screws allready? might make it easier just to cut some mesh to size and attaching using some screws / nuts and bolts.

Mesh side panel would be a bit of an arse on so I think you'd solve most of the heat issues if you turn your CPU cooler round as many people have said. Also you'd have a lower case ambient temperature if you had a GFX card that exhausts hot air out the Back PCI slots rather than into the case since your case doesnt have a strong airflow setup.
 
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