Carbide 200R Airflow?

Faked · January 20, 2014

Hello everybody.

So few months ago I built my rig and I'm very happy with it.

Yet my room doesn't allow me to place my case in open air space, so right now I'm considering adding two more fans.

My case for now has 2 stock fans, one front intake and one rear exhaust.

I know that is always better to have more intakes than exhaust but I'm wondering if two top 120mm fans set to exhaust to pull the hot raising air would be a good idea?

I'm using a CPU stock cooler and planning to improve soon.

While my GPU is a GTX760.

Could you please guide me in right directions to keep my rig cool inside.

SirRoderick · January 20, 2014

Setting your top fans to exhaust is indeed the right way to go about it. You should always intake low and exhaust high as much as possible. It's not that important to have more intake than exhaust, that's more of a dust thing than an airflow thing.

nsyedhasan · January 20, 2014

Hello everybody.

So few months ago I built my rig and I'm very happy with it.

Yet my room doesn't allow me to place my case in open air space, so right now I'm considering adding two more fans.

My case for now has 2 stock fans, one front intake and one rear exhaust.

I know that is always better to have more intakes than exhaust but I'm wondering if two top 120mm fans set to exhaust to pull the hot raising air would be a good idea?

I'm using a CPU stock cooler and planning to improve soon.

While my GPU is a GTX760.

Could you please guide me in right directions to keep my rig cool inside.

I would say go for these fans, http://products.ncix.com/detail/cougar-turbine-120mm-hyper-spin-bearing-fan-1200rpm-60-4cfm-17-7db-3pin-black-4-pack-80-81840-1217.htm , and then have two fans in the front and the rest on the top and back.