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I had to move my radiator to the front of my case because my new RX 6700xt is too long. Now I bought two more fans that I'm going to put where the radiator bracket is.

My question is should I mount them as intake or exhaust fans?

I'd rather mount them as intakes but I already have 3 intake fans at the bottom of my case.

I guess that would be bad because of positive air pressure. But it's the same thing the opposit way if I mount them as exhaust.

 

Pls leave your suggestions, I'm happy about any comments

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If it were me?  Wouldn't even bother putting fans there.  I'd rather see a fan doing exhaust at the top of the case.

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2 hours ago, Sepperl999 said:

I'd rather mount them as intakes but I already have 3 intake fans at the bottom of my case.

I guess that would be bad because of positive air pressure.

Positive air pressure isn't a bad thing, and neither is negative air pressure. What you want to avoid is competing air pressure, and fans that are fighting each other.

 

Your GPU is a normal model, correct? So the fans will be blowing up towards the GPU? That means you have intake at the bottom, fresh air goes directly towards the GPU, and also to the radiator up front, then gets exhausted out the case. 

 

Bottom intake has a slight issue with dust, but nothing that cleaning a dust filter semi-regularly won't solve. A front-exhaust is unusual, but I don't see anything wrong with this configuration.

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With those fans you wont exhaust fast enough to make a real difference. I would set the AIO for Intake, as well as the bottom, and just use the rear and positive pressure to vent the case.

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