Intake/Exhaust fans for Zalman Z11

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M05K

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Hello everyone!

I have 2 spots on the top, 1 on the bottom, 1 on the front and 1 and the rear.

- The top ones are intake/exhaust?
- The bottom one are intake?
- The one on the front is exhaust?
- The rear one is exhaust too?

And how do I see if the fans are instake or exhaust?

Thank you!
 
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RAZER Gamer

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To see if the fans are intake or exhaust you should check the sides of the fans and there should be an arrow. But sadly some case fans don't come with arrows on the fans. So if there are no arrows, you can tell be looking at the fan's blades.

Also for the best cooling and air flow through the case, you should have the front fan as intake and the bottom fan as intake as well to get extra air in to the system. Then you always have the rear fan as an exhaust otherwise the hot air will build up inside the system, and then have the top fans as exhaust as well.
 
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senseijtitus

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M05K, the front and bottom fans should always he intake fans. Two fans in front would be okay for intake. If the PSU is in bottom, I would suggest not to put bottom fan at all. It will interfere with the PSU intake. Top and rear should never be used as intake. Since in this case, motherboard is sitting on top and the heat coming out of the CPU cooler and Graphic card should be taken out not pushed back into the case. More intake fans would be a better option since it will make sure no hot air clusters or pockets remain in the system. Intake fans will take in cool air from front where the HDD and SSD drives are situated. This air will cool those components as well.
 
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It should be intake if it is supposed to be fit into the left side panel of the Case. But you can actually connect it on reverse as well to use an exhaust. I will not recommend doing it for side panel though.
The symbol "-->" shows on which direction is the air going to flow in. U can identify if it is intake or exhaust using this. If the fans front portion where the blade center had the manufacturers logo is where the first symbol"-" is then that would be intake.

If it has the symbol "<", it shows the air will flow out of the front portion which makes it exhaust.
 
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