need help asap for tower cooling solution

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Hey everyone, I just bought some new fans for my tower but i dunno which way should i have them to blow the air in or out. So far I have 2x 120mm, one on top of the tower and one in the front. Also have 2x 80mm on the back of the tower. So far my friend told me that I should have both the 120mm blow air OUT of the system while on the back fans I should be blowing in cool air into the tower. Is he right? I want to have my inside of the tower to be coldddd... well hopefully to stay at 24-26.. cuz previous I had only 2 fans and it stayed at 26-30 which is ok i guess but colder is better especially when you run it almost 24/7 :p

Thanks
 
You want your fans on the back and top to blow out.

Your fan on the front should blow in. Most of the time it also is providing cool air for the hardrive.

If you have a fan on the side of the case you want it to blow on the motherboard so face it in.


You want to cause airflow over your motherboard so it cools your whole system.
 
well i have a fan on the side but its already put on and it blows out.. ok ill follow your way thanks
 
There are some cases that have a "heat duct of sort" that comes of the side and is supposed to vent the heat from cpu directly out of the case. If your case has that then you can use it that way.

IMO I like the fan on the side blowing in because then you get cool air blowing on the CPU and the mobo . I'm sure there are people who will disagree, you can always try them both and see if you notice one offers improvement.
 
just finish putting it on that way.. looks so pertty :).. my speedfan program says a constant 25-27.. so i guess thats a good improvement as im not using liquid cooling system. But anyways does anyone know how to read this speedfan program? Which i presume most of everyone uses this program... I dont get whats Temp 1, Temp 2, and Temp 3.

Thanks for the help!
 
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