Cooling venting into..... wall?

[ProfessorKaine]

Hello!

Sorry if this isn't the place for this, but I'm COMPLETELY new to owning a real PC. (had laptops for most of my adult life because I moved around a lot) Now that I've settled down and bought a house, I invested in, what I believe to be a nice high-ish end pre-built from NZXT. It's been working well so far, but after watching some LTT videos on PC building, something felt 'off' about the layout of my PC internals.  Perhaps I'm simply blind or misunderstand the process, but it looks like the fans on the radiator vent into my front panel. My SOLID front panel. Can anyone just help me confirm that this isn't destroying my fans or overheating my cooling system? (and yes, I know my glass isn't clean, I've been rearranging my desk and haven't cleaned it off yet~ sorry!)

Thanks so much for your time! 

Signed in sincere confusion.
- Kaine

[Axeonelite]

Hi! Welcome to the forum and the world of PC's! On that case their should be vent holes on the other side to provide fresh air through a channel. Just make sure to keep it off the wall a bit. I hope that helps!  *Picture shows white version of case for easier viewing. Same case though I believe*

[Ripred]

hmmm, well that's special, case makers are just not builder minded, what's the other side look like, any open vent? sometimes there will be a small strip

[aledsav1]

Nothing wrong at all, you have the fans very probably pulling air into the rad from the front of the case.

 

They could be put on the rear of the rad to pull air through from the front, though no reason to alter what you have

 

Just for the gpu temps I would probably install the rad at the top of the pc if it fits just so the warm air in the rad is not then adding to the gpus temps

though again if you have no issues then it is not an issue

[Ripred]

2 minutes ago, Axeonelite said:

Hi! Welcome to the forum and the world of PC's! On that case their should be vent holes on the other side to provide fresh air through a channel. Just make sure to keep it off the wall a bit! hope that helps!  *Picture shows white version of case for easier viewing. Same case though I believe*

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[aledsav1]

There is enough of a gap at the front of your case between the fans and the solid panel, so a kinda of void that will obviously be being emptied by the fans pulling the air out, but then the whole process will be then pulling cooler air from outside the case in through whatever vents/or gaps there are

[Spotty]

Do you know which way the fans are facing? The fans are likely faced to suck air from the front and blow air in to the radiator. I can't see any direction markers on the fan in the photos you posted so you may have to open it up to see which way they are pointing.

 

That case with a solid front panel is not very good for airflow and there isn't anywhere else to mount a 240mm radiator in the case.

What CPU do you have and how are the CPU temperatures under load, especially when you have a load on the full system (such as gaming using the GPU as well)? Is it overheating?

[Alinz]

To add to @Spottycomment.

 

You can see these temps a number of ways like HWinfo or MSI Afterburner. I personally use MSI afterburner to monitor temps during gaming. There are plenty of guides online that show you how to use/set up such programs.

 

If there is no throtteling your system is fine, just keep an eye on the rad and fans to make sure they are not clogged. Otherwise a case with better airflow should suffice

[Thomas4]

As long as there's a minimum of 2" from the wall, you'll be fine. More is always better of course, but 2" is sufficient for proper airflow.

[SpookyCitrus]

A buddy of mine has an NZXT pre-built, just like this one. Those fans should be sucking air in from the side panel intake. I doubt they're builders messed that up. I will like to say regardless of if they have the front fans setup properly those cases are hot garbage, literally. They have pretty much zero airflow and are essentially a component oven. If it were me I'd replace the case with one that has a mesh front panel, then you wouldn't have to worry about cooling and airflow at all.