Best case air flow

Helvellar

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Mar 9, 2014
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Hello guys,

I use a Nox Coolbay TX, which comes with two 120mm front fans and one 120mm fan on the back, but the problem is that the case goes really hot and it need better air flow. I have got 2 slots available on the top of the case, as well as one slot in side of the case to put more fans.

I'm also going to buy a Noctua NH-D14 really soon, and I would like to improve the case air flow too.

Which configuration do you guys recommend in terms of the quantity and what position and if I choose to replace the stock fans for new ones, which of them should I buy, so I can improve the case air flow?
 
Solution
Positive Airflow configuration.

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spat55

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Have the front fans as intakes and the back one as an outtake. If you want to fill the top have them as outtakes as hot air rises and you don't want to be blowing dust into your case if you can help it. A side window fan can help cool the GPU nicely but in my experience it just chucked dust into my case so stuck with higher temps.
 
I have a Corsair H50(?) closed loop CPU cooler and I followed the Corsair recommendation and set my airflow back to front, bottom to top. The case I have has the PSU in the bottom. I reversed the back 120mm installed the H50 radiator then the radiators 120mm to the inside of it, both flowing into the case from the back. I have 2 120mm in the front, I also reversed them to have a consistent back to front flow. The top fan is already pushing out the top, no issue there... the only fan I did not mess with was the PSU fan.

My i7 (OC'd to 4.xGHz) never gets over 60C even under a HandBrake video conversion (all cores @ 80-99%) for 4 hours on a Blur-ray rip...