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Building a sleeper. Need help with airflow.

CoopNubbit
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If you are building in that case you are going to want as much negative pressure as possible. 80mm fans get loud so see if you can find one on the quieter side. You can also use your power supply as an exhaust fan to help pull air through the system. Just don't get any fanless power supplies and make sure they aren't hybrid. I think that most hybrid PSUs only kick on under a certain load and not temp.

So Im building inside an old Dell Inspiron a530 or something like that. And it only has one 80mm fan on the rear. How should i position that fan? Should it be exhaust or intake? I wanted an AIO but then the motherboard would get hot.

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29 minutes ago, CoopNubbit said:

So Im building inside an old Dell Inspiron a530 or something like that. And it only has one 80mm fan on the rear. How should i position that fan? Should it be exhaust or intake? I wanted an AIO but then the motherboard would get hot.

If you have any other fan slots then maybe put some Noctua fans on there. Should help a bunch with airflow.

 

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Most OEM cases I build in get configured for negative pressure, IE all fans exhaust out the case, since they all tend to be near the back upper half of the PC. 

 

Cool air comes in whatever vents the case may have on the front or side panels.

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If you are building in that case you are going to want as much negative pressure as possible. 80mm fans get loud so see if you can find one on the quieter side. You can also use your power supply as an exhaust fan to help pull air through the system. Just don't get any fanless power supplies and make sure they aren't hybrid. I think that most hybrid PSUs only kick on under a certain load and not temp.

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