are you supposed to use high static pressure fans on obstructed front intakes?

[neilsabo]

Hi everyone

So, for front intake fans... if the fans are somewhat obstructed by HD cages, do you guys use fans that have high static pressure over high CFM?

I'm planning on building a system inside a Cooler Master Storm Scout 2, and it seems like the front intake fans are obstructed a bit, even if I take out the top HD cage... the bottom cage will probably have 3 HDs

I was planning on putting some of the Corsair fans in there for front intakes, and I was debating whether to get the SP or the AFs

 

[dma0991]

Not worth the trouble, HDDs don't get that hot anyway. There is sufficient gap between the HDD cage and fans to ensure that there is air blown into the case but not through the HDDs. If you want something different anyway, get Silverstone AP121's instead.

Also, if you could orient the Phanteks to the opposite direction, blowing towards the back, it should give some slight improvement since the Phanteks are sucking hot air from the GPU directly. The air in front of the case should be slightly cooler.

 

[blastingcap]

The short answer is yes, static pressure is important on intakes or in situations where you are pushing air into tight spaces, like into a CPU cooler's densely-stacked fins. Try to get at least 1.5 mmH2O fans for front intakes if they have filters on them. Hard drives do not count as obstructions; I'm talking about densely-woven mesh filters.