feico865 said:
JEMC said:
feico865 said:
I have always wonder if the PSU fan should be oriented up or down. The case has some holes in the down side... aren't this for the psu fan ventilation?. Sorry for my bad english. |
Installing the PSU that way, it helps to get rid of the hot air from the case to the outside. It's very helpful if you have a graphics card that exhausts the hot air inside the case, as the one in his rig.
OT: Nice little rig. I think that besides an upgrade on your GPU in a couple of years, you'll be able to play most if not all the new gen multiplats perfectly fine.
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Sorry... It's not my intention to get offtopic but I think this info is of interest to the OP. I have read some stuff on the internet and some people say this:
"The screw holes allow you to mount the PSU either way.
Fan facing down is my recommendation.
It's better to have the PSU's intake fan pull in cooler outside air than to pull in the pre-warmed case air. PSU's operate more efficiently with cooler air. Also the case's internal air flow doesn't get disrupted."
Opinions?
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Nope, the air intake from modern PSU is from the outside case fan and the intake from the PSU is nowhere near hot and usually only a little higher than your body temperture which is a hell of a lot lower than anything else in the case, which means it's pushing cooler air straight into the GPU on his setup which is a lot more optimal than the GPU fans along. Basically, that PSU has 2 fans, one fan sucking air in from outside the case, and one pushing air upwards inside the case.
