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Positive air pressure for an entire room?

Kevin11
By Kevin11
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So I've spent a little over $2,000 on my setup so far, but I live in a desert with 4 cats and everything gets dirty very fast. We have dust devils (which are mini sand tornados) here pretty often so there's a lot of loss dirt in the air to be blown in. I was wondering, if I had an intake fan in both windows with filters on them, would it be possible to create positive air pressure in my room and reduce the amount of dirt that gets in? If anyone has any other suggestions or advice I would be happy to hear it. Thanks.

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I'm not sure, but using 20x20 furnace filters on box fans is the way to go here to just reduce dust in general 

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Gaming and HTPC (reparations)- ASUS 1080, MSI X99A SLI Plus, 5820k- 4.5GHz @ 1.25v, asetek based 360mm AIO, RM 1000x, 16GB memory, 750D with front USB 2.0 replaced with 3.0  ports, 2 250GB 850 EVOs in Raid 0 (why not, only has games on it), some hard drives

Screens- Acer preditor XB241H (1080p, 144Hz Gsync), LG 1080p ultrawide, (all mounted) directly wired to TV in other room

Stuff- k70 with reds, steel series rival, g13, full desk covering mouse mat

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Workstation(desk)- 3770k, 970 reference, 16GB of some crucial memory, a motherboard of some kind I don't remember, Micomsoft SC-512N1-L/DVI, CM Storm Trooper (It's got a handle, can you handle that?), 240mm Asetek based AIO, Crucial M550 256GB (upgrade soon), some hard drives, disc drives, and hot swap bays

Screens- 3  ASUS VN248H-P IPS 1080p screens mounted on a stand, some old tv on the wall above it. 

Stuff- Epicgear defiant (solderless swappable switches), g600, moutned mic and other stuff. 

Laptop docking area- 2 1440p korean monitors mounted, one AHVA matte, one samsung PLS gloss (very annoying, yes). Trashy Razer blackwidow chroma...I mean like the J key doesn't click anymore. I got a model M i use on it to, but its time for a new keyboard. Some edgy Utechsmart mouse similar to g600. Hooked to laptop dock for both of my dell precision laptops. (not only docking area)

Shelf- i7-2600 non-k (has vt-d), 380t, some ASUS sandy itx board, intel quad nic. Currently hosts shared files, setting up as pfsense box in VM. Also acts as spare gaming PC with a 580 or whatever someone brings. Hooked into laptop dock area via usb switch

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I think you would need more than just two fans with a filter to create enough pressure in your room to make a difference. Alone by opening the door you will create enough air movement to render the fans useless.

 

 

 

 

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As long as you are only using filtered intake fans with no exhaust fans, you will definitely have positive pressure.  I would imagine that you're going to need to use the right filters.  I've spend a few years collectively living in a desert between training and deploying and I learned fast that you can never stop the dust/sand no matter how hard you tried.  Then again, I never thought about creating positive pressure within my living spaces.  Good luck in your testing.

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Make few full dust covers to whole PC and wash them weekly.

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