Where should my side fans blow?

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Richard7991

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Alright, I've asked many questions of many things. Here's another, where should my fan on my side panel blow?

I got a Deepcool Tesseract case ( search it to have a better idea), one fan at the front is intake. One on top is also intake, the side panel on the upper section of the side panel is exhaust. The GTX 960 is blowing air down towards the bottom of the case where the PSU is, the PSU would take that air out the back. The CPU is water cooled with a radiator at the upper back, and is taking air from inside the case through the radiator and out the back. That's my whole setup basically.

Now, is that a good airflow or if anything is wrong please fix me the case is always around 35C. please guys, anything just say it. oh and the pc is on my desk 2.5 feet above the ground so dust is not that worrying but still is lol
 
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Shaun o
Heat by natural nature rises.

So along with the front panel fan drawing air in.
The side panel case fans should also draw air in.

The top one, or two 120mm to 140mm fans should draw, or pull air up and out of the case

Any back panel fans should also draw or expel the air out of the case if midway up the height of the back of the case.
You should if you can have an equal set amount of fans drawing air into the case as expelling it.
All of the same size in mm if possible. To keep equal air pressure, flow and balance.

If your Psu is fitted at the bottom of the case fan side down, make sure it has a set of feet on the case or supported, raised with a gap of one inch between a hard flat surface or when placed on a carpeted floor to...
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Heat by natural nature rises.

So along with the front panel fan drawing air in.
The side panel case fans should also draw air in.

The top one, or two 120mm to 140mm fans should draw, or pull air up and out of the case

Any back panel fans should also draw or expel the air out of the case if midway up the height of the back of the case.
You should if you can have an equal set amount of fans drawing air into the case as expelling it.
All of the same size in mm if possible. To keep equal air pressure, flow and balance.

If your Psu is fitted at the bottom of the case fan side down, make sure it has a set of feet on the case or supported, raised with a gap of one inch between a hard flat surface or when placed on a carpeted floor to prevent Psu overheating due to lack of air flow from the internal fan of the PSU. I have seen people put them on a deep pile carpet to have the PSU overheat due to bad air flow clearance.

Hope it helps Richard.
 
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Front, bottom and side should always be intake except in a very few specialized configurations, such as top mounted liquid cooled radiators mounted in intake configurations. Top and rear fans should always be exhaust. There are a few top mounted PSU cases that need slightly different configurations too.

For a bottom mounted PSU case, airflow should always be as follows. Front, side and bottom are intake. Top and rear are exhaust.


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??????? Where did you get this case and who built this PC for you?

The front and side fans should be intake. The rear and top fans should be exhaust. The GTX960's fans should be blowing up towards the top. The psu's fan should be facing down as intake exhausting out the back.
 
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The case is bought in retail and built by me. Also, the GTX 960 is upside-down like most GPU's when installed? pretty sure. Yeah, that's why the air is blown down to the bottom makes sense because if I were to have two cards the to GPU would blow air to the bottom GPU cooling that as well.
 
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