Gaming case?

[bw85]

Is there anything better than the Cooler Master HAF X?

 

[Pearlmam]

Positive pressure being better for dust makes sense. Is it better for cooling? Intuitively, I think that negative pressure would be better. As it sucks air in from the crevices (along with the dust that you talked about, hence why its bad for dust management), there will be a stream of fast moving air into the case, which would be good for cooling. Positive air case creates a stream going out of the crevices of the case.

My conclusion would be:

negative pressure = more dusty case & slight gains in cooling
positive pressure = much less dust & slight loss in cooling

This is speculation, but that article I still cant find was analyzing cooling alone. They got better cooling with more exhaust fans. They did not study the dust intake. Since neither of us can find the articles we talk about, what did they say about cooling, Rufus?

 

[rufus_22]

The temp differences were negligable but yah your reasoning is sound .