This is weird.
I built a system in an Antec 3700BQE case with a 120mm exhaust fan in the back. Nice and quiet. CPU runs about 30C idle, 42C under load. But I have three 7200rpm hard drives in the internal 3.5" bays and was concerned about their temperature, so I tried an intake fan.
First off - with no intake fan, my drives are running at 36C, 33C, and 30C. I added a 120mm Vantec Stealth -- this case has a spot for it, decent air intake through the bezel as far as I can tell. The temps on the drives in the 3.5" bays actually went up 2 to 8 degrees Celsius. I know, you're thinking I've got the fan turned the wrong way, but that's with the fan blowing in the right direction -- because when I had it backwards it was even worse!
How can an intake fan actually increase temperatures? (Room temperature is about 21C.)
I built a system in an Antec 3700BQE case with a 120mm exhaust fan in the back. Nice and quiet. CPU runs about 30C idle, 42C under load. But I have three 7200rpm hard drives in the internal 3.5" bays and was concerned about their temperature, so I tried an intake fan.
First off - with no intake fan, my drives are running at 36C, 33C, and 30C. I added a 120mm Vantec Stealth -- this case has a spot for it, decent air intake through the bezel as far as I can tell. The temps on the drives in the 3.5" bays actually went up 2 to 8 degrees Celsius. I know, you're thinking I've got the fan turned the wrong way, but that's with the fan blowing in the right direction -- because when I had it backwards it was even worse!
How can an intake fan actually increase temperatures? (Room temperature is about 21C.)