Top Fan Placement

[PasitimusD]

I have a question. As you can see, i have 2 top mounted 120 mm fans. Question is, is it better to mount the front-most fan as intake? I get it, hot air goes up, but when the fan is oriented as exhaust, i was thinking my cpu cooler is getting deprived by air as it goes to the exhaust front top fan instead. so i mounted it as intake. Also, as the front fans is filtered and push less air, I thought mounting it as exhaust makes my set-up create negative pressure.Any suggestions? i have 3 120 intake fans in the front, 2 120 exhaust in the rear and rear-top plus the in question top 120 fan. 

[W-L]

1 minute ago, PasitimusD said:

I have a question. As you can see, i have 2 top mounted 120 mm fans. Question is, is it better to mount the front-most fan as intake? I get it, hot air goes up, but when the fan is oriented as exhaust, i was thinking my cpu cooler is getting deprived by air as it goes to the exhaust front top fan instead. so i mounted it as intake. Also, as the front fans is filtered and push less air, I thought mounting it as exhaust makes my set-up create negative pressure.Any suggestions? i have 3 120 intake fans in the front, 2 120 exhaust in the rear and rear-top plus the in question top 120 fan. 

Put it as exhaust you already have 3 intake and you will have 3 exhaust to balance it, having the front intake like that will tend to cause the air to recirculate back into the system unless there is a baffle. For positive pressure you can run the intake at a higher rpm leading to more intake volume than the exhaust. 

 

Also are those the NZXT RGB fans they have a pretty nice glow effect. 

[PasitimusD]

1 minute ago, W-L said:

Put it as exhaust you already have 3 intake and you will have 3 exhaust to balance it, having the front intake like that will tend to cause the air to recirculate back into the system unless there is a baffle. For positive pressure you can run the intake at a higher rpm leading to more intake volume than the exhaust. 

 

Also are those the NZXT RGB fans they have a pretty nice glow effect. 

They are local fans bought here in the Philippines. Omega Halo 120 RGB fans. Unfortunately, i cant increas the RPM of the front fans as all six fans are controlled together and have low and high settings only. Im thinking the Rear fan and the rear-top fan is exhausting more air than the 3 front intake fans are pushing inside the case as they are filtered. I will try experimenting though. But thank you very much for the feed back.

[W-L]

2 minutes ago, PasitimusD said:

They are local fans bought here in the Philippines. Omega Halo 120 RGB fans. Unfortunately, i cant increas the RPM of the front fans as all six fans are controlled together and have low and high settings only. Im thinking the Rear fan and the rear-top fan is exhausting more air than the 3 front intake fans are pushing inside the case as they are filtered. I will try experimenting though. But thank you very much for the feed back.

Nice, they are different, and you can wire them as a set of three to the motherboard to split the intake and exhaust fans to give you group control. 

[PasitimusD]

1 minute ago, W-L said:

Nice, they are different, and you can wire them as a set of three to the motherboard to split the intake and exhaust fans to give you group control. 

oh i forgot to mention, they are controlled by a fan controller which is not connected to the motherboard. And correction, they are OMEGA NOVA 120 fans, not halo.

[W-L]

Just now, PasitimusD said:

oh i forgot to mention, they are controlled by a fan controller which is not connected to the motherboard. And correction, they are OMEGA NOVA 120 fans, not halo.

Why not wire it to the motherboard you can setup fan curves in the BIOS and have it vary speeds between load and such. It's up to you but I usually suggest to have it on the motherboard.

[PasitimusD]

30 minutes ago, W-L said:

Why not wire it to the motherboard you can setup fan curves in the BIOS and have it vary speeds between load and such. It's up to you but I usually suggest to have it on the motherboard.

fans are 6 pin. They are meant to be controlled by the included controller. otherwise you can control the lighting

[W-L]

3 minutes ago, PasitimusD said:

fans are 6 pin. They are meant to be controlled by the included controller. otherwise you can control the lighting

Oh that's less convenient being a non-standard connector, but pretty nice still. 

[MilfShake]

Can you buy the omega halo anywhere in the US or Canada?