Twizted_3kgt
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He wasn't parroting. He was telling you that the PSU shouldn't be sucking air into the case.
I was gonna be polite and helpful but then I saw the post above, bit harsh. So I'll give a bit of advice.
Hot air rises, so common f***ing sense dictates that the hot air is removed from the top of the case. Seeing as the PSU is meant to be an exhaust (as there's no point sucking air into the PC and heating it up first through the PSU), and it's at the top back in your case, then it stands to f***ing reason that the cold air should be sucked in at the lower front of the case to optimise the airflow through the system.
Also, in most cases, graphics cards blow the air out the back of the case so I don't know whats going on there and why it's sucking air back in...
To balance it off, your side fan should intake and your central top fan should be exhaust.
Again, these things have been mentioned. Hot air rises and the PSU fan should exhaust, I would think, are 'no ****' things to say. Obviously I know that or I wouldn't have mentioned it as a problem. I appreciate yours and his efforts though. This GPU does not blow out the back of the case.
Actually 02-05 were the years people went to insane lengths to get cooling because we didn't have the type of air and water setups that are available now. At one point I had 11 fans in my case just to keep everything cool and it did sound like a jet. Back then 92mm fans were the largest you could get for consumer computing and 90% of the time they wouldn't fit in a case anyways. We had to combat that using high RPM 80mm fans.
Anyways, if your case is setup like my Raidmax Scorpio in the front you can fit a 140mm fan in the place of the 80s if you get creative and that should help airflow depending on the fan you get.
Right, but a loud case was still undesirable and for super overclockers. Most of the gaming population did not want a loud PC is what I'm saying.
I think I would have to get very creative to fit a 140mm up front, so I don't think I'll go as far as that route, but thanks for the advice.
I think I figured out the PSU problem to be the top fan is too close to the intake of the PSU. So I'll move that Vantec down to the front, put the 22cfm back on the top. Should take care of the issue.
My case isn't loud by the way. The Vantecs turned down aren't loud at all.