PSU above carpet - Solution

[Guest]

I have about 1cm of clearance from the PSU - Carpet.

 

Would it be better to switch the PSU upside or move the PC onto my tempered glass, up or down?

[wangyuji431]

If you have a filter-it will be fine.

Unless it catches on fire...

LOL JK

[TheKDub]

I have about 1cm of clearance from the PSU - Carpet.

 

Would it be better to switch the PSU upside or move the PC onto my tempered glass, up or down?

 

I'd suggest moving the PC up onto your desk for even better protection from dust, though if you don't feel safe with it up there or prefer it down on the ground just flip the PSU over so it sucks air in from within the case.

[JustChilliing]

I had a plank of wood the exact footprint of my old tower for it to stand on, and it was okay.

[Clyne]

I have a plank of wood under my case, as the case holder i used to own before couldn't fit my 750D.

[OAcesync]

You don't want to suffocate your PSU airflow so I would move it to a desk or put something flat under the PC that it can rest on for cleareance

[Cwazywazy]

I'd just flip it over.

 

I did it and I don't even have a carpet. I did it because there's no PSU air filter and my old Coolmax died after years of service from being clogged with so much dust and dog hair that it overheated and died.

[airdeano]

PSU fan up.

[STRMfrmXMN]

I have about 1cm of clearance from the PSU - Carpet.

 

Would it be better to switch the PSU upside or move the PC onto my tempered glass, up or down?

Having your PSU fan side in is a no-no. Your fan intakes hot air from the GPUs doing that and when the GPU fans come on they'll be fighting eachother for air. Just get a plank of plywood or something and put it underneath the PC.

[TacticlTwinkie]

Go buy a piece of plywood and cut it just big enough to fit under your tower. Cheap and easy.

[TacticlTwinkie]

Having your PSU fan side in is a no-no. Your fan intakes hot air from the GPUs doing that and when the GPU fans come on they'll be fighting eachother for air. Just get a plank of plywood or something and put it underneath the PC.

It's not the end of the world to have the pus fan-side-up. Pc's have had it that way for many years. Cases with psu intakes are a relatively recent thing.

[STRMfrmXMN]

It's not the end of the world to have the pus fan-side-up. Pc's have had it that way for many years. Cases with psu intakes are a relatively recent thing.

It's really hard on the capacitors to have that much heat around them. Unless you've watercooled your system then facing your fan side up is a bad idea. Even then you don't get dust filtration...

[airdeano]

there is no reason that the fan up is any more detrimental to the PSU than using

the external air supply. it doesn't shorten the life as the components already create

more heat than the internals of a PC case. hence the 50° baking test. the PSU is

actually in a thermal environment of 50° to see the effects of the internals.

[Guest]

Go buy a piece of plywood and cut it just big enough to fit under your tower. Cheap and easy.

 

Having your PSU fan side in is a no-no. Your fan intakes hot air from the GPUs doing that and when the GPU fans come on they'll be fighting eachother for air. Just get a plank of plywood or something and put it underneath the PC.

 

You don't want to suffocate your PSU airflow so I would move it to a desk or put something flat under the PC that it can rest on for cleareance

 

I have a plank of wood under my case, as the case holder i used to own before couldn't fit my 750D.

Thanks

[TacticlTwinkie]

It's really hard on the capacitors to have that much heat around them. Unless you've watercooled your system then facing your fan side up is a bad idea. Even then you don't get dust filtration...

No argument that more heat isn't good for the caps. But I think that the difference in fan down or up isn't enough to worry about. Of course, if your case allows for direct intake for the psu, and you don't have the PC on carpet, make it fan side down. But if you are on carpet, fan side up won't end the universe.