Your opinions of a build I am looking to make (Repost)

TheMagicalWallaby · May 23, 2014

I am looking to flip a Corsair Air 540 (white edition) onto is side, and put rubber feat on it. From there I would install my fan controller in the drive bay. I would put two blue 140mm LED fans in the front, and two in the back (one 140mm and one 120mm) by removing the PCI slot covers and putting in dust filters. All fans would be bringing in air. Then my (all in one) radiator would go on the side (normally the top) and would bring the air out. The case would be extremely bring with 4 (two of each color) Bitfenix alchemy (blue and white).

I am curious as to what you would think about my fans all being intake except for my CPU coolers fans. My GPU is a stock 770 so I don't have to worry about that shooting hot air into my case (it also may be water cooled by and all in one or custom loop in the future).

Also along with my idea of a second fan in the back, do you think that this would be bad due to it being so close to where to GPU heat is taken out? If I did SLI, I would remove this fan by the way, Or try some hilarious modding if I felt like it hahaha.

These pictures are from the YouTube video that inspire me
http://i.imgur.com/iDIzHhE.png

http://i.imgur.com/ynCmrvd.png

CTurbo · May 23, 2014

All of the hot air needs to escape so having nothing but intake fans is not a good idea. It's best to get the hot air out as quick as possible.

lmaonade200 · May 23, 2014

CTurbo :

I agree with this man, cooling gimmicks/methods like negative or positive pressure are niche and don't apply to every situation. It's best to have a balance of intake and outflow, and with your CPU fan blasting hot air into your case it's best to have another fan the directs that air outwards imo. (Aren't CPU fans usually intake? Are you changing the orientation for this purpose?)

TheMagicalWallaby · May 23, 2014

lmaonade200 :

CTurbo :

I agree with this man, cooling gimmicks/methods like negative or positive pressure are niche and don't apply to every situation. It's best to have a balance of intake and outflow, and with your CPU fan blasting hot air into your case it's best to have another fan the directs that air outwards imo. (Aren't CPU fans usually intake? Are you changing the orientation for this purpose?)

Nononono. My CPU fans would be exhausting air out.

TheMagicalWallaby · May 23, 2014

CTurbo :

The idea is that nothing is really creating much heat in the case and the only thing bring a lot of heat is my CPU, which is exhausting out of the case. The highly positive air pressure would prevent dust from setting. I don't like negative air pressure because lots of dust settles at the bottom from what I have noticed in my current build.

CTurbo · May 23, 2014

There is NO doubt that negative pressure cools better. Negative air pressure also amplifies natural convection. The only con is dust, but you could always use dust filters. Having overly positive pressure will hold hot air in and temps will stay warm. Especially when a powerful video card is in use. If you're worried about dust so much you should try for a barely positive pressure.

TheMagicalWallaby · May 23, 2014

CTurbo :

The thing is that nothing would be outputting that much heat into this case. The GPU shoot air out of the case, and so does the CPU cooler. The massive amounts of intakes would be feeding lots of cool air to my GPU at CPU, and any air in the case would be taken out by the CPU cooler.

I have always liked more exhausts rather than more intakes, but when I switched to my all in one unit (previously an air cooler), exhausts didn't affect my temperatures that much. It was the intakes that affect my GPU and CPU, not the exhausts.

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