PC Fan Setup question

[sabaku]

I just added a new fan and i'm going to be getting a new power supply soon so i drew a little picture of what my fan set up is atm. Is it an issue the Video Card Fan are blowing downward against a 120mm Fan blowing upwards? All of the fans at 120mm. I was going to have the bottom fan blowing out, but i swapped around. So..any suggestions would be appreciated. Ill attach a crude picture of the set up.

 

[sabaku]

 

[Jamie_69]

Your PSU and GPU actually blow the other way so the bottom intake fan is supplying the GPU with fresh air, which is good, and the PSU sucks air in from the bottom and it escapes out the back. You have too many exhausts compared to intakes though. Is there no room for fans on the front of the case? A better setup might be to move the 2 top fans to the front, this will create more of a flow of air from front to back and sweep out the hot air, rather than turbulently coming in from all sides.

This may also help reduce dust build up if the front panel is filtered. With more exhausts than intakes this creates negative pressure where it sucks air into the case through any possible ventilation - and all this air coming in from every nook and cranny is completely unfiltered.
If you have more intakes than exhaust this creates positive pressure where all the air coming in is coming from the same source and can therefore be filtered easily to keep dust out.

 

[sabaku]

Your PSU and GPU actually blow the other way so the bottom intake fan is supplying the GPU with fresh air, which is good, and the PSU sucks air in from the bottom and it escapes out the back. You have too many exhausts compared to intakes though. Is there no room for fans on the front of the case? A better setup might be to move the 2 top fans to the front, this will create more of a flow of air from front to back and sweep out the hot air, rather than turbulently coming in from all sides.

This may also help reduce dust build up if the front panel is filtered. With more exhausts than intakes this creates negative pressure where it sucks air into the case through any possible ventilation - and all this air coming in from every nook and cranny is completely unfiltered.
If you have more intakes than exhaust this creates positive pressure where all the air coming in is coming from the same source and can therefore be filtered easily to keep dust out.

Well I have the X-Titan 100 case, i'm trying to figure out how to put an intake fan in the front but doesn't seem like their is a slot. The Specs on the cyberpower site i bought it from claim it has 5 Fan slots. 2 Front, 1 back, two on the top. But at the moment in mine i have One on the bottom, one on the back, two on the top. Maybe they consider the location of the PSU the 5th fan slot? I have an extra 120mm Fan, i could probably velcro it on the front or something.

 

[Sedivy]

Ugh cyberpower. It should already come with one fan in front and ability to add another. Instructions for taking down that front panel so you can see what's going on:
https://www.cyberpowerpc.com/forum/xtitan-100-case_topic48277.html

 

[Jamie_69]

Is this your case? https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811855011
If so, I can see in the stock images there are 2 front fans installed so there will be mounts there to fit 2 front fans if you can remove the front panel.

 

[sabaku]

Is this your case? https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811855011
If so, I can see in the stock images there are 2 front fans installed so there will be mounts there to fit 2 front fans if you can remove the front panel.

Yeah but mines white. I've seen a few difference models of this, but basically yes. No fans in the front of mine

 

[Sedivy]

But there should be slots to mount, no?

 

[sabaku]

But there should be slots to mount, no?

Pulled the front off, does not seem to be a front Fan slot. I could possibly stuff one in above the Hard Drive, but there is no specific spot to mount one.

 

[Sedivy]

That's some craptastic manufacturing. Are there any holes in the right spaces for a 120 fan, that you could use rubber mounts with? Is there space to mount the fan in front of the metal but behind the plastic cover?

 

[Jamie_69]

The fan should go between the front of the frame and the hdd trays, it will just be holes for screws

 

[sabaku]

The fan should go between the front of the frame and the hdd trays, it will just be holes for screws

Yeah just did a little modifying and got one popped in. Seems like its working well. Now i just have to solve the randomly shutting off and hopefully the new PSU coming Saturday will solve that. So now i have an Intake in the front and the previous set up. Does that even things up a bit?

 

[Jamie_69]

Yeah that's better but if you still have 3 exhausts I'd move one and add it to front intake