Deepcool Tesseract Fan Optimization

Stycks32

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So i bought the mentioned case, here's a link if you want to see it: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811853004

When i finally had all the parts to put it together, I kind of impulse bought a fan. Corsair SP120 fan that lights up red. The red glow through the case is great. Problem is, it's a static pressure fan, probably not the best for a case like this that has all the room for air flow. The case came with one exhaust fan installed in the back. Question is, do you guys think it's fine to have a pressure fan intake air and another fan (probably air flow optimized but also probably not very high air flow) as the exhaust, or should i just move the fan from the back to an intake in a different area of the case, like the side panel (or the top which has removable mesh air filter) so that i can have passive exhaust with positive overall pressure.

System specs are:
MSI Z170A Pro Motherboard
Intel i3 6100 Processor with Stock Heatsink
2x4GB G.Skill Ripjaws V 2400mhz ram
2x1TB Samsumg 7200rpm HDDs
1x240GB Kingston HyperX SSD
1 Very noisy Optical drive
System under medium load (igpu 99%/cpu 50-60%) usually around 60-65 C.
 
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The wonderful thing about static pressure fans is that they are awesome performers for heatsinks and radiators since the static pressure is able to overcome restriction in their path. This form of restriction can manifest as the drive cage at the front of your case, behind the front bezel. If you were asking me, I'd say pick up another fan as you've done(though the Corsair fans tend to break more than anything) like a Thermaltake Riing LED but picking up 2 instead of one. you can then have each positioned at eh front and the back.

I personally would suggest you stick to a bottom front to top rear path of airflow to curb heat trapping and see some(positive) temperature differences. Heat tends to rise and the only way for it to escape is...
The wonderful thing about static pressure fans is that they are awesome performers for heatsinks and radiators since the static pressure is able to overcome restriction in their path. This form of restriction can manifest as the drive cage at the front of your case, behind the front bezel. If you were asking me, I'd say pick up another fan as you've done(though the Corsair fans tend to break more than anything) like a Thermaltake Riing LED but picking up 2 instead of one. you can then have each positioned at eh front and the back.

I personally would suggest you stick to a bottom front to top rear path of airflow to curb heat trapping and see some(positive) temperature differences. Heat tends to rise and the only way for it to escape is out the back or out the top or both. I'd either leave the top mesh filter off of the top to aid in heat to escape non restrictively or have 2 Thermaltake Riing fans at the top set to exhaust. When you speak of positive pressure you should have all your fans set to intake as is the case with Silverstone and the only reason they can pull off positive pressure is because they've spent time and resources figuring out and designing their chassis's to work under positive pressure while all their intakes are filtered. I'd leave the side panel fan mounting locations alone though.
 
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