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I wanna buy a Corsair 200R case. And it has a fan slot on the side for the graphics card. Should I make that an intake or exhaust? My graphics card is not a blower style. The Sapphire Vapor-X r9 280x to be specific.

I want a gaming PC that can run all game 1080p 60FPS!! But unfortunately, I don't have money and I'm too young to have a job XD

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Depends, what's your plan for airflow?

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I wanna buy a Corsair 200R case. And it has a fan slot on the side for the graphics card. Should I make that an intake or exhaust? My graphics card is not a blower style. The Sapphire Vapor-X r9 280x to be specific.

 

it was likely put there to intake air to your gpu, but if you already have good enough airflow you don't need to use it.

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Depending on whether you have a positive or negative pressure case, then it may get used anyway, fan or not.

I'm guessing too it's not filtered..  meaning it'll collect dust and look fugly

 

I'm a fan of positive pressure, ie more intake than exhaust, else you end up with the case sucking air (and dust) in wherever it can.  All those holes at the rear, around any 5.25" devices you may have mounted etc,.

 

Ideally u want the air flow to go from the front bottom to rear upper.

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Depends, what's your plan for airflow?

I honestly don't know. But I think this might help you : The Corsair 200R has 1 intake in the front and 1 exhaust in the back. It has 1 more fan slot for the graphics card on the slot. I just want my graphics card to run as cool as possible.

I want a gaming PC that can run all game 1080p 60FPS!! But unfortunately, I don't have money and I'm too young to have a job XD

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I honestly don't know. But I think this might help you : The Corsair 200R has 1 intake in the front and 1 exhaust in the back. It has 1 more fan slot for the graphics card on the slot. I just want my graphics card to run as cool as possible.

So use it as an intake, BUT you will get A LOT of dust in your PC

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So use it as an intake, BUT you will get A LOT of dust in your PC

Tape a dust filter to the side.

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Tape a dust filter to the side.

Yeah, you could do that or use some pantyhose and do your own filter as i did for my corsair 450D

 

They work pretty "cool"

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Yeah, you could do that or use some pantyhose and do your own filter as i did for my corsair 450D

 

They work pretty "cool"

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I don't even know if my mom has one xD. And if she does, I HIGHLY doubt that she'll lend me one. So should i just buy a 120mm dust filter? And should I buy an extra one for the intake at the front?

I want a gaming PC that can run all game 1080p 60FPS!! But unfortunately, I don't have money and I'm too young to have a job XD

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I don't even know if my mom has one xD. And if she does, I HIGHLY doubt that she'll lend me one. So should i just buy a 120mm dust filter? And should I buy an extra one for the intake at the front?

Of course, the best you can do is to buy some dust filters, you only need them for your intake fans

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