Need help with airflow

[AirtightChunk39]

Hi guys i want to add more fans to my case and i want to know if the air flow will be good..
My case is Antec X-1T and he supports up to 5 fan..
currently i have 2 so i want to add 3 more so that my case will have 2 intake and 3 exhaust..
so 2 intake and 3 exhaust is good air flow or not ?

[Cyracus]

if you have filtered intakes, or add filters, it's best to have more intake than exhaust for preventing dust build up. Otherwise it's more about ensuring air flows straight through your case to avoid turbulence, basically just don't do intake&exhaust right next to each other. Also looking at antecs site they list 4 fan mounting points, how do you have 5? 

[DragonTamer1]

Most people prefer to have more intakes than exhaust because it keeps dust out. If you are like me and you don't care about dust (because you are a spastic cleaner) then it would better for cooling purposes to have an extra exhaust pulling the hot air out and allowing the cool air to find it's way in elsewhere.

 

You can have two on the top and two on the front for neutral pressure. You can also modify the speeds/types of intake and exhaust fans to make it positive pressure even with only two fans.

[AirtightChunk39]

9 hours ago, Cyracus said:

if you have filtered intakes, or add filters, it's best to have more intake than exhaust for preventing dust build up. Otherwise it's more about ensuring air flows straight through your case to avoid turbulence, basically just don't do intake&exhaust right next to each other. Also looking at antecs site they list 4 fan mounting points, how do you have 5? 

2 front

2 up

1 back

[Cyracus]

Ok, I'd recommend 2 in at the front, 2 out the rear and rear top, run the intake and exhaust slightly off balance to get positive/negative air pressure. I reckon that front top fan would interfere with good airflow dynamics. Also flipping the PSU so it's pulling air from inside the case should help to direct cool fresh air under the gpu as that fan setup won't do a great job of directing air down there, a good alternative to adjusting the fan speeds that extra bit

[B33K]

I like the idea of negative pressure because air flow is faster, but if you have it exhausting through the top of the case air wont get to the parts that need cooling so I recommend negative pressure exhausting out the back.

[AirtightChunk39]

Thank you all for the answers but positive/negative pressure means nothing to me.. i have never worked with case cooling...

[LogicalDrm]

24 minutes ago, AirtightChunk39 said:

Thank you all for the answers but positive/negative pressure means nothing to me.. i have never worked with case cooling...

Pros for positive pressure is that it means less dust from passive mesh areas in case. Pros for negative is more cooling performance. Con would be more dust from all mesh areas. Usually I recommend going for neutral if possible then you have pros for both.

[AirtightChunk39]

3 hours ago, LoGiCalDrm said:

Pros for positive pressure is that it means less dust from passive mesh areas in case. Pros for negative is more cooling performance. Con would be more dust from all mesh areas. Usually I recommend going for neutral if possible then you have pros for both.

I dont care about dust because i am cleaning my pc once a week... so if i will put 2 fans in the front (intake) 1 in the back (exhaust) and 2 in the top (exhaust) its will be good airflow for cooling?

[LogicalDrm]

1 hour ago, AirtightChunk39 said:

I dont care about dust because i am cleaning my pc once a week... so if i will put 2 fans in the front (intake) 1 in the back (exhaust) and 2 in the top (exhaust) its will be good airflow for cooling?

ASctually any config where you have 1 intake and 1 exhaust at least is good one. The temp difference is minimal. Only things that are considerable in fan config are noise the fans make (more fans = more noise) and dust. So yeah, it works.

[AirtightChunk39]

Just now, LoGiCalDrm said:

ASctually any config where you have 1 intake and 1 exhaust at least is good one. The temp difference is minimal. Only things that are considerable in fan config are noise the fans make (more fans = more noise) and dust. So yeah, it works.

lol i will say it again i dont care about dust and either about noise