Question Exhaust fan over the cpu?

shinjuku

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just built my first pc ever. Been playing pc games for over a week now. Amd 3600/ Nvidia 3070. I’m using a fractal meshify c case. I have 2 x 140mm intake fans in the front and 2 x 120mm exhaust fans seen in the picture.

my question is, should the top exhaust be place more centered and directly over the cpu cooler fan? Or is my current exhaust fan set up okay?
 

mindless1

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That is fine but more important is that you block off the perforated areas next to those two (and the front fans if applicable). If you don't do that, their effectiveness is drastically reduced by creating a short loop of drawing in the just-exhausted air instead of pulling it through the rest of the case.

You never want any open area that air can pass through, right next to a fan or really anywhere except stategically located a significant distance away so the air coming in is flowing where needed.

 
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damian101

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That is fine but more important is that you block off the perforated areas next to those two (and the front fans if applicable). If you don't do that, their effectiveness is drastically reduced by creating a short loop of drawing in the just-exhausted air instead of pulling it through the rest of the case.

You never want any open area that air can pass through, right next to a fan or really anywhere except stategically located a significant distance away so the air coming in is flowing where needed.

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Considering that he most likely has positive pressure in his case I don't think that those perforated areas create any short loops. Also, the GPU needs fresh air too, so the perforated area in the back might very well have an overall positive effect.
 

mindless1

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^ They definitely do. Positive or negatively pressurized, you NEVER want open area next to a fan that creates a short loop or at best, still be countermining the pressurization's intended effect and reducing effective airflow.

It's only going to have positive pressurization if you screw up the cooling by having all those open areas next to the rear exhaust fans, otherwise your rear exhaust, from two fans (plus PSU also pulling against the front intake if it doesn't have its own exterior intake) should at least be as strong as the front intake, especially in recent years where you don't need turbulent flow from the front fans to help cool as many (if any) HDDs in a front rack.

Of course there are benefits to positive pressurization still, mostly to use filtered intake panels but then we get back to the same issue, that then you also want to block off all passive areas next to fans but this time the more critical area is the intake fans. Both intake and exhaust should not have these areas of leakage adjacent to them.

Fresh air to the GPU would come in the front of the case or a side panel. The perforated area in the back just robs it of more than if it weren't there because any air the adjacent fan moves, only flows straight to the fan and robs the case of the airflow the fan otherwise would have pulled from further away.

This isn't only true for computer cases, rather any typical application involving a fan. The purpose is to move air. If you don't need as much air moved then throttle back the fan to save dust, noise, and wear.
 
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UsandThem

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^ They definitely do. Positive or negatively pressurized, you NEVER want open area next to a fan that creates a short loop or at best, still be countermining the pressurization's intended effect and reducing effective airflow.
Many of the new cases I've looked at over the last several years, all seem to have completely open tops (with only a filter covering the whole thing).

Outside of the noise that leaks from that design, there's no way for users to close the open spaces unless they want to make something themselves. I'm not at all a fan of that style.
 

Stuka87

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Closing off vents can help significantly. I had to do this on my Lian li O11 Dynamic. The intake fans blew air out right above and below them, and the air never made it to the rear of the case. Which in turn caused the radiator to run warmer (mounted in rear top position). Once I closed off some of the vents (black construction paper between the case and the magnetic filters) the intake fans air was able to make it to the rear area of the case. Which dropped CPU and ambient case temps.

So, I agree with the above poster to plug the vents to the front of the CPU cooler. Those vents are intended to be used with a top mount radiator. As a radiator isn't being used, there is no reason to have them open. You want the air from those intakes to pass through the case.
 

chrisjames61

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All extraneous open areas create short loops and you don't get any real airflow thru the case because of them. If possible they shoul be sealed.
 
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