Hi! I currently have this build using the GT502 case.

I just recently got 3 more case fans. Previously it was set up like this:

I think that for some reason the temps got worse and the PC much louder. It might just be buyer’s remorse but I got more fans so that they could use less RPM and be quieter, but I feel like the complete opposite has happened.

Can I change anything about this layout to optimise airflow? I was thinking of maybe switching the side panel fans to exhaust? That might starve the CPU cooler, though…

Maybe I’m just imagining things and I just need to perform exact tests to figure it out. What do you use for testing airflow effectiveness?

  • Martin M. @programming.devEnglish
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    11 months ago

    I’d make the back and bottoms intake and exhaust on the side with that config.

    Or intake on the side and exhaust in the back and bottoms.

    Or mouth the side ones on top as exhaust if possible.

    • BatrickPateman@feddit.deEnglish
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      11 months ago

      Back intake means your are fighting the airflow from the CPU cooler unless you switch that one around, too, and pretty much reverse the whole airflow in the case.

      Don’t think that makes too much sense. Cases these days seem to follow a “front in, back/top out” airflow philosophy anyway.