(09.10.26) DAILY POLL: Tower Tinker Thursday!

Airflow Audit

Fans are one of those PC components that seem simple until you start building. Intake, exhaust, top-mounted, bottom-mounted, push-pull, positive pressure… suddenly you’re staring at tiny arrows on a fan frame trying to remember which direction the damn air is going.

How confident are you setting up PC airflow yourself?

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  • :tornado: Expert
  • :wrench: Pretty confident
  • :thinking: Somewhat
  • :television: Tutorial required
  • :folded_hands: Vibes-based engineering
0 voters

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Air goes in. Air comes out. Everything between those two events is apparently a science. What’s your golden rule for keeping a PC cool? :desktop_computer::dashing_away:

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I love reading the manuals so tutorials all the way :alien_monster:

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Exhaust higher than intake and in the middle is the science. If not water cooled, CPU fan and exhaust fan are aligned n the hot air is funnelled through a plastic component.

M Board: TUF Gaming B550+ WIFI ii
Procesor: AMD Ryzen 5 5600X
Memory: DDR4 16 GB
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce RTX3060 12GB

Temperatures:
M Board: 28 C
Processor: 41 C
Memory : 31 C
Graphics : HotSpot : 76 C
Running: 65 C
Min/Max: 44/71 C
…with a minning software always running…

not confident at all.