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One More Fan, Should I?

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Rave Crusader

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I have two intake fans and two exhaust fans in my case.

I installed a fan on the side pointing directly over the Video Card. Doing this I lowered the Temp 3 degrees on my CPU. I was going to add a exhaust fan at the top in front of the PS, but I am afraid I will disrupt the good thing I have going if I do that.

What do you guys think, should I install the fan so I have 3 fans blowing in the case and three fans blowing out, or should I leave it the way it is with three fans blowing in and two blosing out.

I have an Athlon 2600 running at 32 degrees C at idle and prior to the fan install it was 35 c
 
a blowhole is efficient to gte rid of hot air, though you should calculate how much air you pump in and how much u pump out, since you want to get more air in than your getting out...


btw: remember that the PSU is ALSO an exhaust...
 
If you're runing at 32c idle, I don't think cooling is much of a problem for you. Maybe I'm crazy, but I don't get to worried about it until my temps get over 40 idle....
 
I wouldnt worry til my temps hit 60c Idle, but an exhaust fan at the top might improve your sooling by maybe 1-2c max. Plus they look cool so why not?
 
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