Side intake fans

[Ilmater]

First of all, I did search, and nobody mentioned this, which is a little crazy.

I was wondering if anyone knew if side intake fans really help or not. I'm looking at getting a PC-7x Lian-Li case, the full tower case, and I didn't know if I should get one or two side intake fans, or maybe none. It'll have good airflow through the front and more than enough exhaust (trust me), but the only intake right now is from the two intake fans, and they blow right over my hard drives, which include a 15k SCSI drive, which runs quite hot. I was thinking that without side intake fans, I would only be getting hot air to my CP and vid card.

Please tell me your advice.

 

[deerslayer]

The side intake fans should help pull in cool air to your video card and CPU 😉

 

[amdskip]

Originally posted by: LyNx01
The side intake fans should help pull in cool air to your video card and CPU 😉

Indeed they will. Get at least one side intake if you can.

 

[Metalloid]

Optimum setup IMO:
One intake in front bottom
One intake in side between CPU and video card
One exhaust in top
One exhaust in back near CPU

And I would advise making your intake fans pull just a few more CFM of air than your exhaust push out, this will give you a very slight positive pressure in your case to help get rid of dust.

 

[Bluefront]

I can't even imagine how noisy a case with fans on every side would be....no thanks. As to positive pressure keeping out dust....one thing was omitted: The intake air must be filtered. Otherwise you're just blowing dust around.

 

[Metalloid]

Originally posted by: Bluefront
I can't even imagine how noisy a case with fans on every side would be....no thanks. As to positive pressure keeping out dust....one thing was omitted: The intake air must be filtered. Otherwise you're just blowing dust around.

Ahh thank you for adding that. And a system wouldn't be that loud as long as the fans aren't high powered.