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slippery said:
After looking, I put all the damn case fans on the wrong direction. 3 fans bottom exhaust, 3 fans side exhaust, 3 fans top intake, with the 2 fans on the CPU cooler pointing towards the back with no fan on that back exhaust.

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Yes, assuming you have a dedicated GPU. You definitely want the bottom fans intaking air directly into the GPU or else there's no real reason for the bottom fans to exist.
 
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Mist said:
Yes, assuming you have a dedicated GPU. You definitely want the bottom fans intaking air directly into the GPU or else there's no real reason for the bottom fans to exist.
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Think I'm going top and bottom intake, side exhaust
 
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(Also depends on how much heat your CPU produces and how much cooling your motherboard VRMs need.)
 
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slippery said:
Think I'm going top and bottom intake, side exhaust
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heat wants to go up. no point pulling in hot air from the top while the hot air is also moving up to get out.
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generally speaking, bottom/front/side intake, top/back exhaust. you could turn the side into an exhaust, I suppose.

Steve went over several configs for this case.
 
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Nemesis said:
heat wants to go up. no point pulling in hot air from the top while the hot air is also moving up to get out.

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If your rad is top mounted, exhaust/intake on it doesn't really make much difference - 1c at most.
 
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Nemesis said:
heat wants to go up. no point pulling in hot air from the top while the hot air is also moving up to get out.
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generally speaking, bottom/front/side intake, top/back exhaust. you could turn the side into an exhaust, I suppose.

Steve went over several configs for this case.
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In an airflow design, top fans can pull the front intake air out of the case before it ever gets a chance to cool stuff around the CPU socket, actually causing more problems. You generally do not want top fans too close to the front intakes.
 
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The "based" setup on the O11D, non-XL version is top exhaust rad from the CPU, 3 side intake, and 3 bottom intake. However, hardware canucks I believe said the best temps were to limit the side intake to 1000rpm's for some reason?
 
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Having had my computer water cooled for so long, you forget that video cards make noise. It's not like really loud or anything, but it's audible, and that feels weird.
 
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slippery said:
Having had my computer water cooled for so long, you forget that video cards make noise. It's not like really loud or anything, but it's audible, and that feels weird.
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I dont think the FEs make noise themselves, atleast i dont hear anything from my 3090 - However i could be wrong and just have music or something else drowning it out.
 
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Should partner with corsair and their airflow cases, not Gigabyte home of exploding power supplies and other shenanigans.
 
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Going to start looking to have a PC built, dont really know much about them though.
Any good resources or advice you guys can give me?
I'm looking at about 1500-2000 to spend
 
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