Fan orientation

[opaque bobcat]

My bro, you should NOT have your top fans as intake, your temps will be bad and pc life will be WAY shorter do NOT do this!! have top and back as exhaust and have front bottom and sides as intake

[true lodge]

Brother I switched them, it was a mistake. Already done!

[opaque bobcat]

Amazing!

[atomic bay]

You can make recommendations for changes and not try to induce panic 🙃 having the top as intake won't shorten a PC's lifespan...

If anything, the CPU will be happier 😛 fresh air instead of the case air being heated by the GPU.

[opaque bobcat]

and your graphics card will then be very sad

[opaque bobcat]

quick way to get someone to change something

[atomic bay]

Your graphics card won't care as much as you think, and you can deliver urgency in other ways than straight up lying about something.

[true lodge]

What direction is the gpu venting, up or down?

[atomic bay]

FE cards move air upwards

They pull air from their fan side (facing down) and push it through the heatsink

99.9% of GPUs are like this

[opaque bobcat]

gpu is air cooled vs the cpu with an aio...

and its two fans too

[opaque bobcat]

its both ways, down in the right and up on the left

[true lodge]

I have the FE, I thought it had one fan

Nvm I see it

TY

[opaque bobcat]

nah it has one on the underside

haha yeah u got it bro

[true lodge]

Whyd they do it like thst

Seems like both should be out cause of horizonal or vertical orientations

[opaque bobcat]

dunno its weird if you ask me cus hot air rises so why not have them both push cool air from the bottom and then it becomes hot and rises up

like its literally the most effecient way

but they choose style over performance so...

thats what fe are for really, to look cool

like why push hot air down which will rise again...

[true lodge]

exactly lol. its not THAT much diff in thermals tho i bet

[atomic bay]

Convection (the force that moves air around based on how warm it is) is hilariously weak. Air will go where your fans point them, warm or cool.

[opaque bobcat]

yh i say its worth the aesthetics