Is there a special guage with a digital readout of case pressure

[durangod]

Since i dont want to always have something smoking all the time to test my case pressure when im gaming or when im not gaming. I was wondering of there was some kind of gadget or sensor i can buy to show me what kind of pressure i have in the case. Maybe something i can put inside the glass side cover so i can see it at a glance.

That way it would make it so much easier to just adjust a couple of the fans on the fly.

Would a barometric pressure guage do that?

Thanks..

 

[bwinzey]

I don't know of any... But I'm curious as to why you're worried about this? There would be no reason to 'adjust your fans on the fly' if you had already adjusted them. You would need a very, very accurate barometer to do this, as the pressure difference is minimal, and those would cost a LOT of money. Which brings me to my next statement: How are your fans set up? If you have all the fan mounts in the case filled, it's always better to have static pressure rather than - or +. Channeling a mass of air through the case is much better than having a + pressure where hot air flows slowly out of crevices, making it heat up more, or having - pressure, where cool air slowly flows in form all sides, cooling much less efficiently than a normal setup.

My advice- With the money you are planning to spend on this, buy all the case fans you need and just put fans in the front and bottom blowing air in, and fans in the back and top blowing air out.

 

[durangod]

ok that sounds like a plan thanks. Here is my case http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811139043 it will arrive today. I got one more red hi flow fan for the front intake, and then two blue high flow fans one for the bottom intake and one for the top exhaust.

 

[little_me]

Indeed, bwinzey is right.
1. It costs money, if that is no issue, all is well.
2. http://www.omega.com/pptst/HHP886.html
3. It needs tubing to/from outside to measure it, after all you want to have the pressure DIFFERENCE, not the pressure inside case.
4. It needs batteries.
5. other choices exist that could accept 12V input, allowing you to attach it to molex adapter or something.
6. It isn't digital, but it is cheap and easy-ish to install.. just add liquid and look which way it moves, telling the pressure. It will still need the piping to outside to "see" the outside pressure though.
https://www.amazon.com/RadonAway-50018-Easy-Read-Manometer/dp/B00KXB6Z32/

As pointed out though, the difference likely isn't great so the liquid wont move much but.. it WILL move.

 

[Scottray]

I would suggest that you have a slight positive pressure in your case for the simple reason to reduce dust build up. Since you're using 2 intake and 2 exhaust fans, you can create a positive pressure by adjusting your intake fans to run a little faster than the exhaust fans. This will have almost no impact on your component temps. Check your mobo manufacture's documentation on how to set up fan curves.