Adding fans to an OEM PC

Aaralli · August 18, 2019

My father has an HP Pavillion that he bought in 2011 or 2012. He uses it for gaming and such even though it's pretty low-spec. At first it had an AMD a6-3650 and I changed that out for an Athlon II x4 651k and an MSI R9 270 GPU. But the case only has one fan, a 92mm exhaust in the back. If I wanted to try to add fans anywhere in the case, how would I go about doing that? I only ask because I'm going to see if I can replace the motherboard and build a whole new system in the case, even though it doesn't have very good airflow at the moment.

Ciuwas · August 18, 2019

5 minutes ago, Aaralli said:

My father has an HP Pavillion that he bought in 2011 or 2012. He uses it for gaming and such even though it's pretty low-spec. At first it had an AMD a6-3650 and I changed that out for an Athlon II x4 651k and an MSI R9 270 GPU. But the case only has one fan, a 92mm exhaust in the back. If I wanted to try to add fans anywhere in the case, how would I go about doing that? I only ask because I'm going to see if I can replace the motherboard and build a whole new system in the case, even though it doesn't have very good airflow at the moment.

If you think it's necessary to keep the case itself fully, then you can try to double side tape fans to the front of the case or maybe if there's side ventilation screw those into there. But if you think you can spit out a few extra dolans to get a better case i'd reccomend it

thrasher_565 · August 19, 2019

you have a pic of it? i would try add a 120mm if posable to the front. posably on the top if there room and if you not using all the pci slot you could do 1 on the bottome and mybe taller feet if needed. but i pic of the case outside and inside to give us ideas would help a ton.

Aaralli · August 19, 2019

9 hours ago, Ciuwas said:

If you think it's necessary to keep the case itself fully, then you can try to double side tape fans to the front of the case or maybe if there's side ventilation screw those into there. But if you think you can spit out a few extra dolans to get a better case i'd reccomend it

Oh I absolutely can spend money on a new case, in fact, I was looking at a Thermaltake Core V21 because it's small and kinda cool/different looking. But I thought it might be cool to try to mod a case, since I've never done that before.