Okay, so after doing some research and acquiring some knowledge from others on this forum, I went out and bought the parts for a PC (at newegg.com).
I built it two nights ago, and it is running smoothly so far. I have a couple of questions on keeping airflow and cooling to a maximum. Refer to the following pics:
So in the first pic you can see the two case fans, both 120mm fans. The one at the rear of the case blows outward, and the top fan blows down. The cpu heat sink / fan blows from the right to the left ... ultimately the air there is pulled out toward the rear fan, and then blown out (at least in principle).
I plan on adding a 120mm fan to the front of the case (you can see where in pic 2). This fan will blow inward.
So the question becomes, should I reverse the direction of the top fan to blow up (exhaust), instead of down into the case?
The idea here is to create a vacuum of sorts in the case by reducing air pressure, whereby the air flow moves quickly through the case from front to back.
I built it two nights ago, and it is running smoothly so far. I have a couple of questions on keeping airflow and cooling to a maximum. Refer to the following pics:
So in the first pic you can see the two case fans, both 120mm fans. The one at the rear of the case blows outward, and the top fan blows down. The cpu heat sink / fan blows from the right to the left ... ultimately the air there is pulled out toward the rear fan, and then blown out (at least in principle).
I plan on adding a 120mm fan to the front of the case (you can see where in pic 2). This fan will blow inward.
So the question becomes, should I reverse the direction of the top fan to blow up (exhaust), instead of down into the case?
The idea here is to create a vacuum of sorts in the case by reducing air pressure, whereby the air flow moves quickly through the case from front to back.
