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- Jun 19, 2002
My 6 case fans seem like push barely any air whatsoever. They're all 80mm's, and they came with my Directron (Superflower) SF-201 case. For example, for my exhaust fan ontop, if I put my hand over it, I can barely feel a stream of air coming out.
Only thing in my case that seems to push much air is my PSU, if I put my hand behind it then I can definitely feel the air coming out.
Here's my case fan setup:
2 in front intake
1 side exhaust (I'm not sure if I should switch it to intake or not)
2 in back exhaust
1 on top exhaust
My case/CPU is pretty cool, and I've also just recently organized all the wires and stuff inside so airflow is a lot better. But still, I'm not feeling much air being pushed at all from my case fans. What I'm thinking is that maybe I have them powered wrong. I have them all "daisy-chained" (is that the right word? that's what my dad called it)... all hooked up to the same type of connectors as my CDRW drive and hard drive. I figured out that the "Fan Only" connector from the PSU was supposed to plug into the mobo and gave the PSU fans more power... at first I thought that was supposed to be used by my case fans but I guess not.
So basically is it normal that I don't really feel any air being moved from my case fans? Are they defective, sucky, or just set up wrong? I'd like to buy some new ones if they do suck or are defective anyways cause I actually have to duct tape the one on the side down because the whole mounting assembly is pretty cheap.
Only thing in my case that seems to push much air is my PSU, if I put my hand behind it then I can definitely feel the air coming out.
Here's my case fan setup:
2 in front intake
1 side exhaust (I'm not sure if I should switch it to intake or not)
2 in back exhaust
1 on top exhaust
My case/CPU is pretty cool, and I've also just recently organized all the wires and stuff inside so airflow is a lot better. But still, I'm not feeling much air being pushed at all from my case fans. What I'm thinking is that maybe I have them powered wrong. I have them all "daisy-chained" (is that the right word? that's what my dad called it)... all hooked up to the same type of connectors as my CDRW drive and hard drive. I figured out that the "Fan Only" connector from the PSU was supposed to plug into the mobo and gave the PSU fans more power... at first I thought that was supposed to be used by my case fans but I guess not.
So basically is it normal that I don't really feel any air being moved from my case fans? Are they defective, sucky, or just set up wrong? I'd like to buy some new ones if they do suck or are defective anyways cause I actually have to duct tape the one on the side down because the whole mounting assembly is pretty cheap.