Is my Fan Setup okay?

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Shain Taylor

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I have the aerocool X-Predator and I want everwhere in my case to be ventilated, but I mainly want a constant fresh supply of air over my CPU as I have the 8350...
My current is setup is as it stands -
Front ~
1 x 200m at 100% constant (Intake)
Side ~
2 x 140mm at around 50% constant (Intake)
2 x 120mm at around 50% constant (Intake)
Bottom ~
1 x 120mm at 100% constant (intake)
Back ~
1 x 120mm at 100% constant (out take)
Top ~
1 x 200mm at 100% constant (out take)

Is this setup okay? most of the air from the front 200mm escapes straight away from the side mesh anyway so that doesn't contribute to air flow, hence the bottom 120mm to push the air from the side intakes up torwards the CPU area.. My GPU is at 50'c at 100% load so I don't have to worry about that...
 
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It will cool your system alright. But the only thing I might change is the side fans to 25% as they are only there to gently stir the warm air in the 'deadzone' (below pci and above psu area) as to get it out of the system, if they are turned up too high they will only disrupt airflow from the front intake.
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It will cool your system alright. But the only thing I might change is the side fans to 25% as they are only there to gently stir the warm air in the 'deadzone' (below pci and above psu area) as to get it out of the system, if they are turned up too high they will only disrupt airflow from the front intake.
 
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You have WAY too many fans.

If you dropped everything except The top, back, and front fans, your temps would not even change. People always think they need WAY more fans than they do. Side fans usually do nothing and even make temps worse sometimes as they mess up flow of air through the case.
 
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Shain Taylor

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Well as I said, the front fan does nothing as it escapes out the mesh past the hard drives, the bottom fan pushes the side fans air up to the CPU area which then gets sucked out by the huge 230mm fan at the top.. well that was then.. I now have a Hyper 212 EVO so now one of the side 140mm is on the back and the old 120mm removed. On this fan setup I'm getting 55'c@100% on my GPU and 60'c@100% on my FX-8350 OC@4.5GHz...
 
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Based on the setup I just did, that sounds like extreme overkill...

I have a phantom 530 case, it comes with a stock front intake and rear exhaust setup, standard.

I added 2 120mm blue antec led fans to the bottom, alongside the 1 psu fan built in with the power supply, and 2 top mounted exhaust fans... I also added a 140mm side intake fan...

Even on the lowest, quietest setting, there is a strong flow of cool air not only coming out of the rear and top exhaust, but also the neutral vent holes, indicating ample positive air pressure.

So yeah, honestly, 2 bottom, 1 side, and 1-2 on top, and it should be MORE than cool enough. Anymore is really overkill unless you have a crammed case with multi cpu and gpu 's going.
 
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tiny voices

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My components don't even change temps between lowest fan settings (barely spinning) and fastest settings. I have 2 front intakes (120mm), and a single 140mm exhaust up top. There is an h60 on the back as an exhaust as well.

Even overclocked there is no change in temps between slowest and fastest fan speeds. Most people have WAY too many fans in their build. Generally speaking all any computer needs is a single front intake, single top exhaust and single rear exhaust.
 
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