[SOLVED] 40mm fan as case fan worthy?

trandaa

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Hello good people,
a HDD of my All-in-One Acer just died, so I decided to disassemble it to swap the HDD. I decided to put a small dedicated GPU into it too, it's just a GT 730, nothing extraordinary.
I found out, that I can mount a 40mm fan on the top of the PC. Is that worthy or should I pass it? The temperatures without the GPU are alright so far, but dunno how much the GPU will affect the temperatures inside, it has active cooling. Since I've got one free fan connector on my MoBo, I could use it.

Specs
CPU: i3-530
CPU Cooler: Some Cooler Master
MoBo: Acer OEM
RAM: 4x2GB Samsung DDR3
GPU: NVIDIA GT 730 1GB
PSU: Noname 220W

Thank you for your input
 
Solution
If temps are fine as is, a 40mm fan isn't likely to improve anything - and will probably sound like a jet engine.

Sanity check CPU/GPU temps and, unless they rise substantially (unlikely), then I wouldn't bother.