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Air-cooling and Board Orientation

Meat_TN
By Meat_TN
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     I have a little fixation on an Idea that I would like to implement in a case at some point. The idea is to orient the board i/o -up such that when air cooled, knowing that hot air rises, the flow of air for the cpu and gpu are up and out of the case. This would be opposed to standard orientation where the hot gpu air could possibly rising into the cpu cooler area. This also makes sense for a rear exhaust gpu where the gpu fans would be working in the same direction as the natural tendency of the hot air to rise. my intent was to implement this orientation along with some shrouding to direct the airflow further.

 

  My question is if anyone has any experience with this. Does anyone have any evidence to support or debunk better temps from the orientation?

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^Ditto.

The main benefit would be having access to cooler air below the case for intake.

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