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Paintmaker9000
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Hello guys I'm a fairly newer PC builder. I just built my pc a few months ago and i recently installed a three fan liquid cooler on it. I'm looking for recommendations on my airflow and would like to see what you think. I have inserted a picture of my current air flow and an air flow set up that I was thinking about doing. Right now, my front three fans are the intake and my liquid cooler at the top is the exhaust. I worry that not enough air is reaching the GPU which is why I am thinking about keeping the outer two exhaust fans on my liquid cooler radiator as exhaust, and changing the middle one to an intake. What do you guys think about this? Is my current set-up fine, or is my proposed one better? Do you guys have any other suggestions? Thanks!

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Those front fans should deliver an adequate amount of air to the gpu you shouldn't need to flip the fan on the AIO. All in all your case flow in its current config seems pretty balanced if not slightly positive pressure due to rad resistance.

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I honestly prefer doing all intakes except for the Back case fan by the IO panel, that is my exhaust. Works well for my systems overall.

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5 minutes ago, Shimejii said:

I honestly prefer doing all intakes except for the Back case fan by the IO panel, that is my exhaust. Works well for my systems overall.

I can't fit any of my fans in the back due to the AIO pump lines. How many fans do you have as intake compared to your one exhaust in these systems? Do you think three fans as exhaust and three fans as intake is too much intake?

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1 minute ago, Paintmaker9000 said:

I can't fit any of my fans in the back due to the AIO pump lines. How many fans do you have as intake compared to your one exhaust in these systems? Do you think three fans as exhaust and three fans as intake is too much intake?

There is never too much intake :) I have 3 top intakes (3 120mm fans) 2 front intakes (2 140) would be a third but i have an older case, and 1 exhaust. All Computer builds that i do for people i do this because it generally just works the best.

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Am I looking at this picture right? The fans on the front of the case appears to be mounted as exhaust unless those are some special design where the frame on blade side is on the opposite side.

 

The top fan with the radiator should be all exhausting. And then I would put a exhaust fan on the back to help push out the air so it won't suck in so much dust.

 

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11 minutes ago, alyen said:

Am I looking at this picture right? The fans on the front of the case appears to be mounted as exhaust unless those are some special design where the frame on blade side is on the opposite side.

 

The top fan with the radiator should be all exhausting. And then I would put a exhaust fan on the back to help push out the air so it won't suck in so much dust.

 

All of the front fans are intake. I feel like having four exhaust fans would cause too much negative pressure.

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6 hours ago, Paintmaker9000 said:

Hello guys I'm a fairly newer PC builder. I just built my pc a few months ago and i recently installed a three fan liquid cooler on it. I'm looking for recommendations on my airflow and would like to see what you think. I have inserted a picture of my current air flow and an air flow set up that I was thinking about doing. Right now, my front three fans are the intake and my liquid cooler at the top is the exhaust. I worry that not enough air is reaching the GPU which is why I am thinking about keeping the outer two exhaust fans on my liquid cooler radiator as exhaust, and changing the middle one to an intake. What do you guys think about this? Is my current set-up fine, or is my proposed one better? Do you guys have any other suggestions? Thanks!

 

I would normally suggest using front intake and top exhaust.

I do believe that you could be confused about which way the air flows through our fans. 

You currently have your fans setup to top intake and front exhaust. 

The air always flows from the front side through the fans towards the back.

I would not recommend having 1 of your top fans as intake and the other 2 as exhaust. 

If you set your front fans as intake it will supply ample amount of air to your GPU.

 

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8 hours ago, Paintmaker9000 said:

No, the rad is exhausting and the front fans are intake.

 

Actually, @alyen and @Jeppes are correct, you have both top and front fans wrong way. See the pic:

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Fans exhaust from bracket-side and intake from blade side. The 3 in front and 3 out top is fine, just flip the fans around.

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