I keep seeing posts questioning airflow all the time, It's as simple as the images in this post.
I keep seeing posts questioning airflow all the time, It's as simple as the images in this post.
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I thank you for the effort, since new builders wont give a shit and ask anyways.
Nah fam all intake is better
Except is recently been proven by multiple people that all top exhaust is worse than a combination intake/exhaust
It depends on your case layout
Depending on the case you could create a small turbulence area in the right top corner this way.
You think they care? They want their personalised version of the same answer.
what do you mean display glass inst porous and breathable making it conducive for good internal parts temperatures
i actually have my top in and front out to combat my at the time cats walking up against the case and it works well too
I would not put more exhaust fans than intake fans.
Except it’s always better to have more intake fans than exhaust to limit dust buildup
Generally decent layouts, but you want to have at least 1 more intake fan than exhaust fan to have “positive pressure” in the case. Image 1 will have “negative pressure” and get more dust buildup around gaps in the case. Thats my preference at least.
My case has 3 intake fans and 1 exhaust fan.
Just wait until you see all posts about something clearly explained in a manual
Now do that for dual radiator setup
bro is this AI? the glass panel is not smashed…
What if my case only has 2 top fans and I back fan
If there’s a fan shaped hole in your case and it has a dust filter it’s an intake.
If it does not have a dust filter it’s a vent.
You now know all you need to know to air cool your case.
It is if you come to this sub and ask questions because you’re too dumb to do research
Nah, just put the tempered glass on the tiled floor and it’ll break then you have open case for maximum airflow
why do they call it exhaut when you out take the hot air of out hot case from cold in take?
Alright what about something like this bad boi
https://preview.redd.it/1nk38rya4o9f1.png?width=1080&format=png&auto=webp&s=bdf4ba9190cd648c6f64a285ed6907ac2d2e2fa1
I have a question about it
can you install fans at the bottom of the case where it’s faced towards the graphics card?
and if you could, would that help cool the graphics card?
A lot of people hyper focus on “best”. Which is the difference between the first two and last two pics.
Truth is though, it’s fine. The difference between the general typical setup and best setup is usually like less than five degrees. At least when talking about case airflow.
We see this a lot with new builders. People will say “what’s the best X?”.
2 is how I got mine set up.
I do top, front and bottom intakes with side and rear as exhausts on my GPU and CPU AIO.
Is the first two pics for AIO? I see the last two called out as air cooled so I assume this is the case.
Lose the fan closest to the intake and I would say your sweet then
The problem isn’t the airflow itself, but rather where to place the CPU AIO (top/side, intake/exhaust).
Even worse if you have a GPU AIO too because then placement is even more difficult.
My arrows are green and yellow will that still work?
To be fair. I think cabinet manufacturers should add these sort of images in the product image or a ingots sheet in the packaging for beginners
FBI is coming for you man
Just finished building my second PC and this time I chose a Lian Li A3 so airflow was a little more challenging than my giant Phanteks XT Pro. It’s amazing how often I see posts on the discord without newbies googling “does hot air rise”.
3 or 4 googles and one ask of chatgpt and airflow issues can pretty much be addressed. I don’t get it.
but they want to reinvent the wheel
Nah, I did #3 and my case got dusty AF easily even if my corsair 700d had a dust filter on top
what’s the second case?
This is a good basic setup.
The best setup I know, for prople that care, is to find the airflow of each fan and arrange it so you get s little bit of positive pressure to help keep dust out. Has worked great.
But if my front panel is built solid, no mesh?
You don’t want negative pressure. Pic 1. I would not do at all. The rest are fine. But still. You only really need to exhaust in the back and the top left one on top realistically.
question!
if my PC is on the floor, wont the intake from the bottom floor of the case also suck in dust from beneath the PC?
i swear i saw these kinda posts every single day on facebook group i recently joined. they don’t even bother to do some research when google is just another tab bro.
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Breathe in….
Breathe out…
Also, don’t fall for the big fan propaganda, you do not need 10 fans.
The airflow posts wont stop, but enjoy your choccy milk
https://preview.redd.it/r120qxu0xo9f1.jpeg?width=958&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4bb1f47091bb1586d1fca095666fb115645776fa
I used to obsess about putting as many fans as I could in my first couple of PC builds. Nowadays I put two 140mm intake fans on the front and a single exhaust fan top back of the case. And I air cool my CPU. To be honest, I have zero issues with temps.
To avoid the confusion, can I just use zero fans?
I remember arguing about top fan configuration with another redditor. How would you setup the top fans if you had a stock AMD cooler? There are two possibilities: all-exhaust and all-intake. The back one is exhaust of course. What do you think?
