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Enlight 7237 120mm fan better in side or front?

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kauffmbe

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I want to make my airflow better and more importantly quiet down my 1.4 Athlon/K7s5a setup. I have decided the best way to do this seems to be a 120 mm fan. Would it be better to make a side panel intake (admittedly a much easier mod) or to open up the existing front fan location? If I went with the side mount option, should I still keep the original 80mm fan in place as well (maybe replace it with a lower CFM quiet model?) Finally, If I greatly increase the incoming airflow with a side 120mm intake, does it matter if the exhaust fans are only the PS and the additional 80mm below it? This rig is not used for serious o/cing but rather primarily as a HTPC so noise takes some precedence over cooling. I also think I am going to pick up a SVC GC68 to replace the stock HSF. Any thoughts?
 
Adding fans - even large blow-hole fans - is often not effective if the case ventilation is poor. If you're not getting good air-flow THROUGH the case, the case can't efficient exhaust the hot air generated by cpu and other internal devices, and can't replace that hot air with cooler room-temp air.

I'd work on improving improving case air through-flow first. Failing that attempt, I'd simply replace the case with a case designed for better case ventilation. Simply adding fans often results in more fan noise and increasing the load on your case power supply.

I've never used an Enlight case, but I know the Antec 1030/1040 cases are good cases and do provide decent case ventilation.

Hope this helps!



 
I believe the 120 on the side would yeild better results (that's what I have but not in that particular case)...you could even run it at 7v for less noise but dunkster is right, you can't push air in if nothing is coming out.
 
For those of you who have done the 1200mm front of case mod, how did you manage to install it without mangling the clip where the front bezel attatches?
 
i have this case and a 120mm fan in front and tes i instaled fan without hurting th front bezel clip but first i made the holes in the bezel 3x larger and cut the inside plastic around the clip to help pull in air. i then cut the back were the 80mm fan goes to take a 92mm fan both fans are panaflows L1's so its nice and quit.
 
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