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Power Supply Fan Placement

Stalkbroker94
By Stalkbroker94
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I built my personal rig almost a year ago and just now (a few weeks ago) got fed up enough with how cluttered the cable "management" was. My grandpa helped me build it and at the time, I didn't really care how it looked. I was just happy to have something that looked as cool as it did. I had my power supply fan initially installed to pull air from the case and blow it out of the back. When I rearranged the cables, I flipped my PSU over so that the cables were flush with the other side of my case. This gave it a less cluttered look and gave me enough room to install another case fan for kicks and giggles. I made sure my case had a good gap between the floor and itself. As far as I'm aware this only affected the aesthetics of my build. Am I wrong? Will the position of my PSU effect more than aesthetics? Lifetime of the PSU is unchanged? If I'm doing anything wrong, I usually like to find out. Sorry this post is so long. :)

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As long as it can get enough air to cool it shouldn't hurt anything. The only moving parts are the fans and they should run fine in any orientation.

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10 hours ago, Stalkbroker94 said:

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Just make sure the computer sits on a solid surface with sufficient room for airflow beneath it. 

 

If you do this, your PSU will actually perform better in all likelihood since it'll be pulling fresh air instead of heated air from the case :).

CPU: i7 6700k (4.7 GHz) | GPU: EVGA GTX 1070 FTW (OC) | Motherboard: ASUS Sabertooth Z170 S | Cooling: Corsair H110i GTX | Storage: 250GB Samsung 850 EVO M.2 + 1TB WD Black | RAM: 16GB (2x8) Corsair Vengeance LED (White) 3000MHz | Case: Phanteks Enthoo Evolv ATX | PSU: Corsair RM850i | WiFi Card: TPLink Archer T9E | Case Fans: Noctua iPPC-2000 PWM (3x 120mm in), 2x Noctua NF-A14 PWM 140mm (radiator, painted black), Fractal Venturi HP-14 (1x 140mm out)  | OS: Windows 10 Home 64-bit

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