How many of you have more than 1 x Front cooling fan to draw cool air in?

How many front cooling fan do you have to draw room temperature air in?

  • one

    Votes: 7 10.8%

  • two

    Votes: 33 50.8%

  • three

    Votes: 13 20.0%

  • more than three

    Votes: 12 18.5%
  • Total voters
    65
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Is it excessive to have more than 1 front cooling fan on a regular mid tower or full tower case? I notice at "Post your Workstation 2017", someone posted a photo of Noctua 140mm x 2 at the front.

But the good old ATX air flow idea by intel is to have 1 front fan at the bottom to draw room temperature air in, and to have a high rear fan to suck the hot air out.

Is that a general consensus as to say 2 x front fan is normal or 1 x front fan is normal?
 
Voted more than 3 because I have a 280mm radiator with 4 140mm fans on it.
 
At the front? How tall is your case? Did you post this at Post your workstation thread? I would love to see a photo
 
Intel's spec is for a boring computer, with no overclocking, and minimal add-ons for heat generation.

AKA A Boring Dell/HP pre-built box.

If you're overclocking, adding a huge heat source video card, etc. You need more cooling, full stop.
 
I have room for 2 x 180mm, front fan, what would you guy think? Would you go for it, 2 x 180 fan front?
 
I have a pair of 140's in my Air 740 and a pair of 120's on my Air 540.
Going to do triple 120's on both in the future.
 
I don't have any fans pulling air in. Why on Earth would I want to pull in dust?
 
auntjemima said:
I don't have any fans pulling air in. Why on Earth would I want to pull in dust?
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With positive pressure (by using more intake than exhaust fans) with good filters, you can control exactly where air enters the case. Otherwise, air will enter the case in every nook and cranny it can, making it almost impossible to maintain an internally dust-free environment.
 
Always have more air entering the case than you have exiting. Maintaining positive pressure allows you to easily control the air entry points which means you can drastically eliminate dust by having filters in place.
 
Well, that makes sense! Asking about WHY never really produces a coherent answer, so I am pleasantly surprised. My case is dust free, but I will investigate the suggestion.
 
Well, I have a single rad, in push pull at the front of my case, and since it's an ITX box, the GPU fans are right by an intake. That kinda seems like 4 fans.
 
I have a BeQuiet! Silent Base 600 with a total of 4 ventilation fans:
- Front - Intake - 140mm x 2
- Base - Intake - 150mm x 1
- Rear - Exhaust - 140mm x 1

Room for two more on the top, but with the positive pressure it's exhausting from there anyway.

All the fans are around 50% (controlled by FanExpert2 profiles, from CPU temp, wish it was from GPU temp). The HDDs are louder while idle, and everything is Very quiet at load. But I only have a 2500K and a GTX 1060... No dual 7990 going on here ;)
 
Been re-purposing a lot of Dell t3500 and t5500 workstations lately. Have done smoke tests and two 120x38mm front intake fans are all they need. Even with hot card like RX 480.
 
I have an Antec P100, 2x 120mm intake fans, 1x 120mm exhaust fan, plus the video card and power supply exhausting (under load, they barely spin otherwise)
 
I put more than 3, because I have 3 on the front and 2 on the bottom pulling air in.
 
I've got 3 120s in the front of my Enthoo because I've got 3 140s exhausting through rads in the top and back. The Evolv's top exhaust is highly restricted, so I reason that the more pressure in the case helping it along, the better.
 
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