Measuring air flow

stevie_vee · 2 Aug 2011 at 00:58

Hi all...

I have an Antec 902 and was wondering if there is way to measure the airflow running through the sytem. The reason i ask is so i can set the fans to the right speed.

Thanks.

Steve.

Purgatory · 2 Aug 2011 at 16:29

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You would need to buy an air flow meter. Easier to just read the specs of the fans and work it out from there, at a certain RPM the fan will produce a certain CFM.. If your fan controller displays the fans RPM you can look up the fans specs and work out the CFM.

-fedexer- · 2 Aug 2011 at 17:42

Do you actually think the airflow in a case would be sufficient enough for one of those meters to work?

Surveyor · 2 Aug 2011 at 18:05

Just set the fans at the best speed which give the right combination of noise and temperatures.

stevie_vee · 3 Aug 2011 at 10:15

Thanks for the input guys. I've set the two 140 mm fans on the front to the lowest speed, the 80 mm on the back to medium and the 200 mm on the top to medium. seems to be ok with variuos temperature tests on cpu,gpu and memory.

Thanks again.

Steve.