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So, I've been building a custom case, but in the interim I have inverted my fractal case in an attempt to make air flow a bit better. 

 

I like it, am happy to post pictures if there is any interest (it's basically just flipped with the legs on the top (now bottom). 

 

Thought behind doing it:

Hot air rises. CPU is at the top. GPU blows air down and around. Flip said scenario with top (now bottom) fans as intake. Use PSU and 140mm fan to exhaust from top (formerly bottom). GPU is now exhausting air directly outward instead of circulating it within the cases atmosphere.

 

Temperatures are more or less the same (CPU is a couple of C cooler - Northbridge is hotter, GPU is cooler by about 8C), but I have a stagnate fan that I need to plug in (waiting on adapter to come), which I expect to lower the northbridge temperature back to where it was. 

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a GPU cooler pulls air into it

it is not exhaust

 

flipping the GPU upside down makes it suck air from above, not push air out the top

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26 minutes ago, Enderman said:

a GPU cooler pulls air into it

it is not exhaust

 

flipping the GPU upside down makes it suck air from above, not push air out the top

hmm, well the GPU temperature dropped pretty significantly. While it may pull air, it still seems to push it too. and now I have dedicated exhaust for that spastic moving air? 

 

19 minutes ago, airdeano said:

hot air rises (convection) only when no air flow/disturbance is present. otherwise, the interior heating patterns are dictated by the placement of fans.

Isn't there still fighting that to a certain degree? Before, the only way to get my CPU cool enough for the current OC in a 78F room was to have the top fan pulling air in and blowing it onto the heatsink. Now they are doing the same thing, with the general movement of air in a more uniform pattern. 

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