Case Fan's, where is everyone putting them??

[LOWDRAG]

A ton of post's out there have add a case fan here, or add 2 80mm fan's here this will work, ect.......

Im really new at this and im looking inside my pc, i see the one intake fan on the back panel, the fan on the cpu, and i added one of those fan's that go in one of the slots (where your graphic's card is)

Where the hell is everyone adding fan's? Is there a site that will show you where and how to add them that you would recommend?

Im interested in doing some extra fan work, or looking into it....... Im just getting nervous that I'm lacking in the fan dept. seems everyone has at least 14 more than i do???

 

[punkrawket]

some people add fans to the side of their case to blow on their hardware/cpu

others have top and/or bottom blow holes

people also add another to the front or back just to improve airflow

 

[virtuamike]

At the bare minimum, have at least one fan on your back panel right by the CPU and have it exhaust air out of the case. People think that their power supplies will do a decent job of removing hot air that comes out of the CPU and they're usually wrong. Next have at least one fan pushing air into the case, either in the front or on a side panel, what you want is to keep pressure in the case roughly equal to what it is outside (in other words air going in should equal air going out). Some good spots to intake air are right on top of the PCI/AGP slots or on your DIMMs. If you need more fans to exhaust, consider adding a blowhole on top of your case, get rid of the hot air up top. If you have SCSI hard drives that burn up, have the fans that cool them exhaust hot air out of the case, that way you're not blowing warm air back into the components. Ducting also works too. If you have your CPU fan set to blow onto the heatsink, then consider ducting the air it needs from the outside. That way you're cooling your CPU with cool outside air, not warm internal air. That'll get your system cooled down somewhat, good start anyways.