will 2 120mm fans on side of case be OK?

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1eyedjak

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• Sep 20, 2003

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It will be so much easier to mount 2 120's on the side and 1 on top for a blowhole than for me to hack up and modify the fron t and rear to accept the 120's in stock locations.

will this worK?

mike

 

anvil82

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• Sep 20, 2003

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I don't see why not.

 

emericanchaos

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• Sep 20, 2003

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part of why you put the fans on the front is so the cool air will blow through the case across the components towards the back. putting fans in the side is going to have the cool air blow on the side of the case.

if you need an alternate spot you could use the bottom panel if yor case doesn't sit on carpet. as long as you have a hard surface to sit the case on thenthe bottom panel would be a better option.

 

slater3333uk

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• Sep 20, 2003

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The only problem is the hard drives in the front of the case wont have much air flow over them.

maybe keep a 80 in the front and back just for good mesure

I have built several systems with just 2 fans in the side 1 in the back and 1 in the top but i find the hdds get hot!

 

Twigs

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• Sep 21, 2003

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ya just add the fans on the side, keep the original ones(they arnt hurting anything...are they?)

 

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• Sep 21, 2003

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no problems at all... usually the more flow the better =d

 

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1eyedjak

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• Sep 21, 2003

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I may keep one in the front for just the hard drives.

Point is to eliminate the noisy Deltas and not loose air volume.

I will keep 1 in front since I now have 2 hd's

Mike

 

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• Sep 21, 2003

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I have 1 fan in the front
1 in the side
and 2 in the back and I have yet to have any problem with heat
and my computer is folding 24/7

 

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• Sep 21, 2003

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in my 4q tech full tower case, i modded it to have 3 120mm sunon 108cfms and 2x 80mm sunon 42.5 fans. 1 120mm blows in from front, 1 120mm blows out (on top of cpu) and the other 120mm blows in onto the agp/pci cards. the 2x 80mm fans blow out from the top most rear, there is also dual psu.
pic of front and case side here..

http://www.coolcasegallery.net/ccg/viewcase.php?cid=00115