Intake or Outake?

bumblebee_tuna

bumblebee_tuna

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Ok, I probably already know the answer for this but on my Comcrap, (or Crapaq) I have one rear 92-ish mm fan and a 80mm side fan (screwed onto the grill, just above the cpu). Right now the rear is an outake and the side is an intake. The case is ventilated enough, so I was thinking, could I change the 92mm into an intake and not worry of over-heating or can i switch both fans from outake to intake and vice-versa, or is it best the way it is?
 
It is probably the best the way it is right now. I would not suggest having both of them blow air into your case, or you will have almost zero airflow in your case. However having both of them exhausting air out of your case, is a perfectly fine way to do it as long as you have plenty of cracks or vents in the front of your case for air to get in. But what you may want to think of doing for now is vent the side fan to the cpu, leave them blowing in the directing they are, but when the side panel fan isn't vented to the cpu it disrupts the airflow in the case, with it vented it allows fresh air to get to the cpu, with minimal disruption to the cases airflow.
 
....sooooo switch the side fan form an intake to an outake or just remove it? (Keep in mind, with the case upright, the fan is just above the CPU, more of blowing on the RAM more than anything....)
 
bumblebee_tuna said:
....sooooo switch the side fan form an intake to an outake or just remove it? (Keep in mind, with the case upright, the fan is just above the CPU, more of blowing on the RAM more than anything....)
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I would take it out or leave it, if you make it blow out of the case, tehn all the air you're blowing to the back of the case will get blown out before it goes past the cpu.
 
...but don't you want air passing over the CPU? ....or are you talking about warm air? (Keep in mind, I don't have a front fan of any kind...)
 
bumblebee_tuna said:
...but don't you want air passing over the CPU? ....or are you talking about warm air? (Keep in mind, I don't have a front fan of any kind...)
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You DO want air to pass over your cpu, that is what I am saying, but if you have the the side fan blowing air out, it is going to be sucking all of the moving air out of the case before it gets to flow over the cpu. If you have it blowing in, then all that air goes straight out the back of the case, without doing much for the cpu. You need the side fan vented to the cpu, so that the rear fan can move air through the whole case. And ya do you have a mount for a front fan? And do you have a mount for a 120mm fan in the rear of your case?
 
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