[SOLVED] Is this a good fan set up

Page 2 - Seeking answers? Join the Tom's Hardware community: where nearly two million members share solutions and discuss the latest tech.
Solution
In truth, your best bet without adding another fan would be to move that top fan to the top front location as a second intake, then, technically, you would have the fans in the correct places and technically the correct orientation for positive pressure. You won't actually HAVE positive pressure because with no fans in the top and an open grill all your intake pressure will bleed off through the holes and be vented by the rear exhaust fan, but you will at least have better air movement directly to the CPU cooler and proper orientation.

Later it would be wise to probably add a top-rear fan as a second exhaust, giving you "technically" neutral pressure, which is what you really kind of want anyhow. When cooling performance is not the...
all what these lads are saying is sound but make sure that the thermal paste that you used isn't worn out and/or low quality
Considering this is a system that was built THIS year, since it has a Z390 motherboard, there is effectively ZERO chance that the paste used is low quality (Since it almost certainly CAME WITH the cooler) or is "worn out", since it can't be old enough to have dried up. Thermal paste doesn't "wear out". Ever.

It can become too dry to be effective, but it doesn't wear out. In either case, that's not going to be the case here. It COULD however be due to a poorly mounted CPU cooler that is loose at one of the fasteners or mountings.
 

TRENDING THREADS