PC fan placement

Zack92 · 21 Dec 2020 at 14:18

I'm building my first PC, and I was planning on having 3 intakes on the front, the top 2 potentially being my AIO CPU fans, however the front of my case has mesh on the bottom half which allows for the bottom 2 fans to draw air in, but the top front fan would be covered by solid plastic.

Would this make the top fan redundant in terms of being able to intake cold air and help cooling or would it still help?

Any help is greatly appreciated

Thanks in advance!

Maundie · 21 Dec 2020 at 14:30

Hi and welcome.

If it's blocked by solid plastic I would say it would be largely pointless putting a fan there as it's not going have much of a way of drawing air in, some cases do have removable blanking panels, are you sure it's not removable?

andy_mk3 · 21 Dec 2020 at 14:33

What case do you have? Will give us a better idea

Zack92 · 21 Dec 2020 at 15:03

Nope, it's okay I can get two on the front behind the mesh and theres room for intake at the bottom aswell, so I'm thinking two on the front and one I the bottom as intake, with one on the top and rear of the case as exhaust? My case is an IONZ KZ12. Thanks

andy_mk3 · 21 Dec 2020 at 15:08

It looks like the top fan at the front still has some room in front of it so it'll work to some extent, using the the mesh lower down, so it'll be worth fitting a fan there if you have one as it wont be completely useless.

Zack92 · 21 Dec 2020 at 15:28

Yeah okay thanks. I did think even if it's minimal it definitely can't hurt to have one there.

pp111 · 21 Dec 2020 at 18:42

Zack92 said:
Nope, it's okay I can get two on the front behind the mesh and theres room for intake at the bottom aswell, so I'm thinking two on the front and one I the bottom as intake, with one on the top and rear of the case as exhaust? My case is an IONZ KZ12. Thanks

Yep. Seems like a good plan.