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Optimal Fan Placement and Direction for Air-Cooling a Computer

Fresh5 days ago
Mar 15, 202629257 views
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My current computer has always run unusually hot no matter what steps I have taken such as: lots of fans—including four 120mms; thermal grease—both generic and Arctic Silver V; placement of the system—ie on top of a desk hutch in open air; etc. My case came with an 80mm fan hole in the center of th…

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Fix for: Optimal Fan Placement and Direction for Air-Cooling a Computer

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This is a rather interesting article on the subject. It was our assumption that the tests with ALL the fans in operation would produce the best results but it didn’t. Time to idle represents how effectively the configuration removes heat from the PC…

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