fan setup question

[geesolo]

ok I travel to London in 2 days to set up my new rig and was wondering how I should set my fans up?

Should I have all fans blowing out of the case or some blowing in from the front?

I await the experts response and thanks in advance hope you all had a great new year and it continues

[supershanks]

hi m8,
depends a lot on what case you have
usual arrangement is an intake fan at front as you say & an exhaust fan at rear. Have a look round Case Mods And Build Projects. & Case Gallery might give you a few ideas.

luck

[Clunk]

I have the 3 rear fans blowing inwards, the front 4 blowing inwards and the psu and a fan in the top do the extraction..works well for me

[geesolo]

Windows Vista Home Premium 64 OEM
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.4GHz 95W G0 Stepping (Retail 775)
OCZ PC2-6400 Vista Upgrade (4x2GB) 8 gig total (from aria.co.uk)
Asus Commando P965 Socket 775 Vista Support Motherboard
Akasa AK-965 Intel 92mm Heatpipe Cooler - 775
Arctic Silver Ceramique Compound
700W ATX SurgeControl Power SUpply (from aria.co.uk)
Arianet Veil MIDI Case (from aria.co.uk)
1 x 750GB Hitachi Deskstar SATA2 32MB
3 x 5.25'' Bay Fan (Hard Drive Bracket) (from aria.co.uk)
1 x Nexus Frizzbee Silent Hard Disk Cooler
4 x Nexus Real Silent 92mm Case Fan
XFX GeForce 8800GTS 320MB Fatal1ty PCI-E
Creative X-Fi Xtreme Fatal1ty Pro
20x Samsung SH-S202 20X IDE DVDR-W Black


this is the set up and the crappy case i have doesn't have a top hole!!! so what do you think would be the best? I don't wanna mod the case yet as I am still new to all this, so I just want the best air flow with these parts please

[Clunk]

700W ATX SurgeControl Power SUpply (from aria.co.uk)

[geesolo]

what?????have I messed up?

[supershanks]

Arianet Veil MIDI Case so assume you have a fan at front bottom ?? & I would guess 1 at raer above rear I/O panel ??

If that is the case then front=intake & rear is exhaust ??


To be honest i'd worry less about the fans & more about your psu 700W ATX SurgeControl Power SUpply You've got a fair amount of mony tied up ith some good components, but powered by a dodgy cheap PSU. To giver you an idea of the quality of cheap psu's check out Reviews - The Bargain Basement Power Supply Roundup These tests were controlled , no hardware was destroyed in the testing. In real life that isn't the case. The psu might take out other components. Frankly i wouldn't overclock with that PSU.

[geesolo]

I had posted all of these components in an earlier thread 1st timer seeks wisdom q6600/commando and asked if this would be fine for an overclock to 3ghz and was told YES!! I have had this stuff sitting in London waiting for me for awhile now and I don't think I can return it

[Clunk]

Originally Posted by geesolo

I had posted all of these components in an earlier thread 1st timer seeks wisdom q6600/commando and asked if this would be fine for an overclock to 3ghz and was told YES!! I have had this stuff sitting in London waiting for me for awhile now and I don't think I can return it

I'm sorry, I didn't see the PSU in the other thread, if I had, I would have said the same as I said above, and in the PM

[geesolo]

i'm bricking it now, Can you recommend a cheap (reliable) psu as I leave in less than 48hrs and all transactions I have to make here in Finland (don't ask) The cheapest possible please As I am skint!!! But I wanna overclock this rig to 3/3.6ghz if i'm lucky what wattage am I needing?