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Generally, you want air flowing through your case as follows: In through the front/bottom and out through the top/rear.

 

You also want neutral to slightly positive air pressure within your case. This means having the same number and size of intake fans are exhaust fans. If not, you want more intake than exhaust. Having more exhaust vs intake creates negative air pressure in the case, which decreases cooling effect and causes excessive dust collection. So you don't want negative pressure. ;)

 

Your graphics card has two fans that blow air onto the card (towards it) and out around it. So keeping a supply of fresh air for those fans to draw from is important. 

 

My suggestion to you would be to mount your additional 120mm fan as a front intake. I know it doesn't look like it, but it will be able to pull enough air through the front vents. I would also suggest adding one more 120mm fan as an intake on the side panel right where your graphics card will be mounted behind it. This will keep your system running cool and keep a slight positive pressure inside the case as well. :) The components you're running aren't going to produce a large amount heat, so this should be more than sufficient. 

 

Also, just as a quite tip; if you're not sure which direction case fans blow, they always blow towards the support frame, like this:

 

350x700px-LL-96008a5b_fan.jpeg

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I am getting a zalman t3 mini :http://www.zalman.com/global/product/Product_Read.php?Idx=834

and there is one fan included at the back but I have also brought a 120mm fan as an intake fan.

My build is

Athlon x4 860k

Asus A88xm-plus

2x4gb hyperx fury 1866mhz RAM

Sandisk 64GB ssd

WD Blue 1TB HDD

EVGA 500w psu

Gigabyte windforce 750 ti (dual fan one)

 

Where would be the best place for an intake fan? 

I had a look at the front of the case and there just doesn't see to be a big enough gap there for max intake flow.

Could anyone help?

 

Also do GPU fans intake or outtake? I have never really known about this.

Any help would be appreciated

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Generally, you want air flowing through your case as follows: In through the front/bottom and out through the top/rear.

 

You also want neutral to slightly positive air pressure within your case. This means having the same number and size of intake fans are exhaust fans. If not, you want more intake than exhaust. Having more exhaust vs intake creates negative air pressure in the case, which decreases cooling effect and causes excessive dust collection. So you don't want negative pressure. ;)

 

Your graphics card has two fans that blow air onto the card (towards it) and out around it. So keeping a supply of fresh air for those fans to draw from is important. 

 

My suggestion to you would be to mount your additional 120mm fan as a front intake. I know it doesn't look like it, but it will be able to pull enough air through the front vents. I would also suggest adding one more 120mm fan as an intake on the side panel right where your graphics card will be mounted behind it. This will keep your system running cool and keep a slight positive pressure inside the case as well. :) The components you're running aren't going to produce a large amount heat, so this should be more than sufficient. 

 

Also, just as a quite tip; if you're not sure which direction case fans blow, they always blow towards the support frame, like this:

 

350x700px-LL-96008a5b_fan.jpeg

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Generally, you want air flowing through your case as follows: In through the front/bottom and out through the top/rear.

 

You also want neutral to slightly positive air pressure within your case. This means having the same number and size of intake fans are exhaust fans. If not, you want more intake than exhaust. Having more exhaust vs intake creates negative air pressure in the case, which decreases cooling effect and causes excessive dust collection. So you don't want negative pressure. ;)

 

Your graphics card has two fans that blow air onto the card (towards it) and out around it. So keeping a supply of fresh air for those fans to draw from is important. 

 

My suggestion to you would be to mount your additional 120mm fan as a front intake. I know it doesn't look like it, but it will be able to pull enough air through the front vents. I would also suggest adding one more 120mm fan as an intake on the side panel right where your graphics card will be mounted behind it. This will keep your system running cool and keep a slight positive pressure inside the case as well. :) The components you're running aren't going to produce a large amount heat, so this should be more than sufficient. 

 

Also, just as a quite tip; if you're not sure which direction case fans blow, they always blow towards the support frame, like this:

 

350x700px-LL-96008a5b_fan.jpeg

Ah ok thanks I think my MB only supports 2 chassis fans but I presume I can get a 4 pin adapter to hook up to the psu in the future? 

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Ah ok thanks I think my MB only supports 2 chassis fans but I presume I can get a 4 pin adapter to hook up to the psu in the future? 

 

Yep. Some fans come with a 4-pin molex power adapter cable, but if not, they are cheap. Just keep in mind that will run the fan at 100% speed (full 12v). If you want it to run slower, you'll need to control it through the motherboard or with a low-speed adapter which reduces the voltage going to the fan (usually 7v). 

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F@H Rig:

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FX-8350 // Deepcool Neptwin // MSI 970 Gaming // AData 2x 4GB 1600 DDR3 // 2x Gigabyte RX-570 4G's // Samsung 840 120GB SSD // Cooler Master V650 // Windows 10

 

HTPC:

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WIFE'S: Dell Latitude E5450 // 14" 1366x768 // i5-5300U 2.3GHz Dual-Core HT // Intel HD5500 // 2x4GB RAM DDR3L 1600 // 500GB 7200 HDD // Linux Mint 19.3 Cinnamon

 

EXPERIMENTAL: Pinebook // 11.6" 1080p // Manjaro KDE (ARM)

NAS:

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Yep. Some fans come with a 4-pin molex power adapter cable, but if not, they are cheap. Just keep in mind that will run the fan at 100% speed (full 12v). If you want it to run slower, you'll need to control it through the motherboard or with a low-speed adapter which reduces the voltage going to the fan (usually 7v). 

Ok thank you very much :)

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