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How to set up fans for h500i?

Gapi

By stock they were top and rear exhaust, but holy shit are they loud so I decided to buy 2x be quiet shadow wings 2. Now I'm uncertain how to set them up. According to this thread it's best to just use the stock setup, so I assume I just put both the be quiet fans at exhaust on top and rear? Apparently front intake doesn't help temps but will it help dust, if I put the old nzxt fans at a low speed as front intake, because it gets really dusty atm? Thanks.

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Majority of your cooling will be from top and rare exhaust, adding fans in the front only provides positive pressure to reduce dust built up.

I use to have 2 280mm noctuas at the front, and swapped my top/rare to noctuas as well.

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3 minutes ago, Pikatchu said:

Majority of your cooling will be from top and rare exhaust, adding fans in the front only provides positive pressure to reduce dust built up.

I use to have 2 280mm noctuas at the front, and swapped my top/rare to noctuas as well.

Cool, so I'll put the old fans as front intake and put them on low. Thanks.

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Just have the fans in the back as exhaust. The h500 has very poor airflow and 2 fans at the back is already maxing out the air it can pull in. Any other fans are wasted/can even impede airflow.

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28 minutes ago, jaslion said:

Just have the fans in the back as exhaust. The h500 has very poor airflow and 2 fans at the back is already maxing out the air it can pull in. Any other fans are wasted/can even impede airflow.

Thanks. One more problem I just ran into, the control hub has only 3 fan ports... What should I do?

edit:nvm i figured it out

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