Have just transferred my system from a antec 900 to this case, bit of a faff to get it installed esp the harddrive caddy that you have to remove to install the hardrives, you need to remove the front panel, then a cover at the bottom were the psu is, anyway I bought this as My case is getting old and tired and wanted a cleaner look the antec 900 has no room at the rear to hid cables so It was a mess, I had a problem with one of the stand offs in the case will not screw in not a major problem but frustrating the rest of them went in no problem, also my system temp is getting to 50 deg (when gaming), I only have the pre installed 2 fans in and with a gtx 1080ti its getting toasty, but the antec 900 did have great cooling (with 4 fans inc the big 200), My question is if I install 2 140s at the top as exausts will that cool my system temps down?, my cpu temps are good as is the gtx 1080ti just the system temps are high as I guess not enough fans are expelling the hot air.
fractal design meshify c hot system temp
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By system temp do you mean motherboard temp? Or just the air inside your case?
With the two fans preinstalled putting two outputs on the top would be to much out put and lead to negative pressure. Ideally you want positive pressure or at least neutral. Try 3 fans on the front all intake, will get air flowing through your case better. If still and issue maybe some for the top but I suspect you won't need them.
With the two fans preinstalled putting two outputs on the top would be to much out put and lead to negative pressure. Ideally you want positive pressure or at least neutral. Try 3 fans on the front all intake, will get air flowing through your case better. If still and issue maybe some for the top but I suspect you won't need them.
Thanks for the reply, I Cannot get more than 1 fan in the front because of the size of my GPU 320mm. The case is a fractal design meshify c, I cable tied 2 of my old antec 900 fans to the top of the case and the temps are much better but as you say this is not the correct method, Maybe I got the wrong case for my GPU because it says you can fit 3 120s or 2 140s to the front but because of massive GPU size am restricted to 1. I could always change the front 120 to a 140 but not sure how much difference that will make.
It may not be the best case for you as it would probably be important to have some intake air blown directly below the card. I specifically chose a shorter 1080Ti (EVGA SC2 rather than the FTW) when ordering due to this. You could try squeezing a 120mm at the bottom if you remove the HDD shroud? Or put 2 fans at the top as intake?
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I have this case and it's amazing for airflow. Actually it's one of the better cases release lately. All these new cases released have restricted air flow in the front. Meshify C is totally open in the front. You need fans pushing air in. I do 140mm's in front as Intake. Top and back of case as exhaust. My system is very cool. You're doing something wrong mate?
Don't know if you read my original post?, But I can only get 1 fan in the front of the case because of the size of my GPU. I have tried putting 2 fans also in the top both as intake and both as outtake and it makes no real difference. I think with a hot GPU you really need 2 fans in the front