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Should I really buy a new CPU fan?

Hi everyone, I'm new here so I'll try my best to explain myself.

 

I'm buying a new case in a week or so, because of aesthetics mainly. Thing is, the airflow in my current case goes like this: I have the stock Intel fan on my CPU, and at the opposite wall of the case, a fan taking that hot air outside the case, this makes a straight line for the air and I think that's okay, even I see my average CPU temperature is above everything I read about my CPU, an i5-4440.

 

CPU at 20% load now, with one chrome tab, telegram, discord, wallpaper engine and rainmeter running a desktop clock, a transparent windows bar and a equalizer visualizer it's at 55ºC.

 

Okay so, about the new case, it has not a "hole" for a fan at the opposite wall of the motheboard. So then, I need to put the fan at the back. Is that really okay? I don't know if I'm being to paranoic about this but airflow not being a straight line doesn't seem too well for me, even more knowing my current temperatures are above normal.
 

I also need to say the new case includes a fan at the back, so. I could use my current fan at the front, pulling clean ir in, then the stock Intel CPU fan and finally the included back fan? Is that an okay airflow? I can put the front fan at the top too. Maybe by just buying a CPU fan that pulls air to the back of the case instead of the stock one that pushes it to the opposite wall would be better? Or it doesn't really matter?

 

Thanks for your help.

 

My current case : https://www.amazon.es/Mars-Gaming-MC1V2-ordenador-sobremesa/dp/B00JXDTYBG

The one I'm going to buy : https://www.aerocool.com.tw/en/chssis/pgs-v/cylon

The kind of fan I should have for the airflow to be straight? : https://www.pccomponentes.com/nox-hummer-h-212-cpu-cooler

 

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Honestly, you should be fine. Unless youre going to overclock, you dont really have to worry about cooling unless youre going to use an ultra constrictive case (which youre not)

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29 minutes ago, CerberusFlame99 said:

Honestly, you should be fine. Unless youre going to overclock, you dont really have to worry about cooling unless youre going to use an ultra constrictive case (which youre not)

Okay then, I'll see temperatures when I get the new case, but lastly, whereshould I put the fan I already have? Front or top?

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1 minute ago, QueenMarina said:

Okay then, I'll see temperatures when I get the new case, but lastly, whereshould I put the fan I already have? Front or top?

I would put on the front and towards the bottom so that the air will flow over all components before being exhausted seeing as there is already a rear exhaust fan at the top included

It doesnt matter who wins and who loses, because in the end, the king and the pawn go into the same box.

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On 6/24/2018 at 3:31 AM, QueenMarina said:

I have the stock Intel fan on my CPU, and at the opposite wall of the case, a fan taking that hot air outside the case

That sounds like the case fan is facing the opposite direction from the cpu fan . The cpu fan pulls air down into the heatsink and onto the motherboard.

If that's the case, having the fan anywhere else would be better.

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