How's My Airflow?

Chri5 · April 24, 2013

So in the very top of the case I have 1 140mm noctua (silent adapter) and a 120mm zalman bs fan (ultra silent adapter), along with a corsair af120 (silent adapter) at the very back of the case. These 3 fans are exhausting air.

At the bottom of the case I have a crap zalman fan using the ultra quiet adapter that the noctua's came with to add a slight wind to help with convection and at the fron of the case I have a 140mm noctua fan running on the normal silent adapter. These 2 fans are intakes and have filters on them.

So I probably have negative pressure lol and my xfx 6870 with a arctic accelero l2 plus runs at around 70C give or take a few degrees when running unigine valley. Processor (3570k) runs at 75c at a 4.2GHz overclock after running intel burn test for an hour.

Also my comp is almost completely silent. You can hear the hum of air moving but its nothing compare to what it was before buying a cpu heatsink and all the aftermarket fans... especially that xfx 6870... that thing was LOUD

mgsstar · April 24, 2013

Your temps are looking good and you have good air flow imo because usually the intakes are front and bottom while exhausts are top and rear and you did it the way that people usually place these fans at. Why are the hard drives slanted?

Chri5 · April 24, 2013

One of them is slanted because I had to ghetto mount it. Not sure if I'm going to leave the hdd in there because I don't even use it or have anything on it yet.

I also don't have any fans on the sides as I'm going to make a piece of plastic to seal up the holes so less dust gets in.

mgsstar · April 24, 2013

One of them is slanted because I had to ghetto mount it. Not sure if I'm going to leave the hdd in there because I don't even use it or have anything on it yet.
I also don't have any fans on the sides as I'm going to make a piece of plastic to seal up the holes so less dust gets in.

Oh it is possible to add a fan on the side as an intake so you can give your gpu cool air and possibly get better temps.

Chri5 · April 24, 2013

I wanted to minimize on dust so I'm going to seal off all the places that dont have a filter and would act as an intake so the side panel is a huge intake for dust so I'll be sealing it off soon.