I have an Antec case - a performance AMg one (660 I think). It has the following 80mm fan slots -
One on the side panel, pretty much directly over the AGP slot.
Two at the front - one at the bottom, with a nice filter in front of it and one above that which is in front of the removable HDD cage (containing two HDDs currently).
One at the back.
The CPU cooler is not stock, but it's just a fairly standard uprated heatsink with a 80mm LED fan.
I currently have the side one as exhaust, plugged into a fan-only connector from the power supply (temperature-controlled), the front bottom one as intake on a fan-only connector, and the rear set as exhaust on standard power, e.g. full power constantly.
I also have a PCI exhaust fan but I took that out.
My case seems to get quite warm inside, particularly around the RAM and CPU as the graphics card (BFG 6800 Gs) cuts off the airflow quite a bit from the front intake. Also, I'm wondering how these fans interfere with each other, for example will the side fan take out cool air pulled in from the front fan? How does the fan on the graphics card affect everything?
I've also heard that having airflow from back-to-front can work well.
Do I even need an intake? won't the exhaust fan be enough to get rid of the hot air? And won't the intake fan just bring in hot air in the summer? (Although I live in the UK, so this might not be a big issue!)
And if I use the PCIexhaust fan won't that conflict with the one on the grpahics card as they are both trying to pull air away from each other???
I'm not that bothered about noise, it's the most efficient cooling with what I've got that I'm most interested in. Help?
One on the side panel, pretty much directly over the AGP slot.
Two at the front - one at the bottom, with a nice filter in front of it and one above that which is in front of the removable HDD cage (containing two HDDs currently).
One at the back.
The CPU cooler is not stock, but it's just a fairly standard uprated heatsink with a 80mm LED fan.
I currently have the side one as exhaust, plugged into a fan-only connector from the power supply (temperature-controlled), the front bottom one as intake on a fan-only connector, and the rear set as exhaust on standard power, e.g. full power constantly.
I also have a PCI exhaust fan but I took that out.
My case seems to get quite warm inside, particularly around the RAM and CPU as the graphics card (BFG 6800 Gs) cuts off the airflow quite a bit from the front intake. Also, I'm wondering how these fans interfere with each other, for example will the side fan take out cool air pulled in from the front fan? How does the fan on the graphics card affect everything?
I've also heard that having airflow from back-to-front can work well.
Do I even need an intake? won't the exhaust fan be enough to get rid of the hot air? And won't the intake fan just bring in hot air in the summer? (Although I live in the UK, so this might not be a big issue!)
And if I use the PCIexhaust fan won't that conflict with the one on the grpahics card as they are both trying to pull air away from each other???
I'm not that bothered about noise, it's the most efficient cooling with what I've got that I'm most interested in. Help?