i built this pc a while ago and it doesn

[inland egret]

idle temp = irrelevant

also your side intake fans are mounted as exhaust

[light holly]

ooh

[light holly]

this might make the airflow bad

[inland egret]

to mount your side intake as intake?

[light holly]

i thought he mounted the fans so they only allow air to go out

[inland egret]

hot air goes up

[light holly]

oh

[final thunder]

so i should make those exhaust fans intake

[inland egret]

yes

[final thunder]

bet im gonna do that right now see how that works for a while i did think it was kinda strange that they were outtake fans

[inland egret]

yeah lol

people do it for the looks

but theyre supposed to be intake

and if you wanna compare temps you should run a stress test

and if you wanna know if your temps are safe you should do what you usually do

such as game and check temps

[olive lake]

Fans replace hot air with cold air which absorbs the heat to become hot air which is then replaced with cold air. The general principle of basically every cooling system out there, which means you have to have air coming in from somewhere

[olive lake]

How can you tell from the picture that they're mounted as exhaust from the picture?

[inland egret]

comes out from the top

,airflow

[olive lake]

Ah, I always just looked at the little arrows on the fan bracket

[inland egret]

or a little from the side

[inland egret]

that also works

[olive lake]

It's got a 100% success rate as long as I have enough coffee in me to remember which way the arrows point after I read them

[inland egret]

or just look at the grille

[olive lake]

Well, I know that now...

Never had correlated the grille/airflow relationship before

[inland egret]

lol

[final thunder]

alright so what i did was switch those exhaust fans to intake and i took out the rear fan but it takes away from the asthetic a little more than i would like so if i put in the fan at the back of the case should i have it as intake or exhaust

[inland egret]

exhaust