Stacker 830 Airflow Design

[YoNeX]

For the fans, I am going to pick up the Yate Loon D12SL0124B 120mm Blue LED Low Speed [Link] for performance, price, and noise. I already have fans for the exhaust at the back of the case and the top exhaust, but open to suggestion. For the front of the case, I will already have 2x 3-in-4 casing with their stock fans. Might change these out for the Yate Loons.

Also, I may be adding a couple of more fans (like I need anymore ) on the stock Mosfet, southbridge, and northbridge. I was also planning on getting a HR-03 Plus for my GTS, but not sure how I would mount it because the Tuniq would be exhausting hot air and blow it onto the HR-03 heatsink. If I mount it the other way, not sure I would have enough room?

Noise is not really a big factor for me because I have to run the AC 24/7 in my apt and pretty use to the noise already anyways.

That is what I want to do with my Stacker. Everything looks fine or do I need to make any modifications with intake or outake? Each arrow pretty much represents a fan.

 

[silent-circuit]

PSUs normally exhaust heat out the back, not intake air. It's a better design as well, since intake would be sucking up hot air from your GTS and the processor. Try and mount the Tuniq so it exhausts out the back of the case directly if you have space.

 

[YoNeX]

PSUs normally exhaust heat out the back, not intake air. It's a better design as well, since intake would be sucking up hot air from your GTS and the processor. Try and mount the Tuniq so it exhausts out the back of the case directly if you have space.

Yeah i'll make a note of that.

 

[Xeth]

You can't mount 3 intake fans on the front unless you plan to have NO optical drives, or if you mod the case and manage to squeeze a 80mm fan in there.

Otherwise it looks great. Note that the top exhaust fan is extremely airflow restricted due to TWO meshes on top of it and the mass of power supply cables below it. I would either mount a high RPM fan there or no fan at all (or, mount a Raptor X there ). I agree with silent-circuit that you should mount the Tuniq so it blows out the back. That way it will get fresh air directly from the forward side intake fan instead warm air from the northbridge.

Personally I'm running 4 140mm intakes on the side panel. I figured the fan brackets (which only fit 120mm's) would restrict the airflow too much, and since I'm not going to use them I might as well go up to the maximum size . For the GFX card exhaust I'm just keeping a couple of expansion slots open in the back, but I may get a slot blower just to keep it nice and neat.