How do you feel about this to bring in air?

[heartspains88]

My tower is the cooler master cosmos 1000

I never leave the door as it prevents plenty of perfect air flow into the case.

The front area of my tower is PERFECT for a fan, or two.. and doesnt have one, nor the mounting for one.

Short of modding the area, or permanently mounting a fan in a way to the front removable bay covers, not many ways to do it.

However, I found this: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...7993002&cm_re=5.25_fan-_-17-993-002-_-Product

i feel this is perfect as it takes up all three open slots, matches my case in color, brand, and style. And give me the 120mm fan bringing air in that I want.

My hard drives are already cooled so I have no need of actually placing hard drives there, rather than using it as an easy way of mounting a fan and matching my case. It's also dirt cheap. I would however replace the fan, as I personally cant stand LED fans (personal opinion).

Would this suffice to do what I'm looking for? Or would it be a waste?

I've done something like this before and worked well. And the area is really just begging for a fan.

 

[Jackster]

You have to also think that the more air you bring into the case the more you have to get out.

Are your temps high?

Do you have good fans already there? (branded)

 

[heartspains88]

You have to also think that the more air you bring into the case the more you have to get out.

Are your temps high?

Do you have good fans already there? (branded)

I currently have 2 bringing air in (Noctua), and three cheaper fans bringing air out, more out than in. The cheaper fans are getting replaced as per my other thread in this section.

I plan to go 3/3 In/Out.

My temps are not bad by any means, ran Prime 95 torture test last night for 45 minutes, CPU capped out at 44C under load over clocked at 4ghz 1.4 volts.

Gpu caps out at 58C after over an hour in Furmark.

Not bad at all, but would like to lower them. The summer is coming, I'm in California, and we do not run AC in the house.

 

[marsey99]

it would work but im not sure how much it would aid your cooling as the cool air it pulled in would just get sucked up out the roof by the front fan in the top.

what you need to do really is to add a fan on the side blowing cold air in the bottom which will work its way up, cooling as it goes.

more airflow isnt always better, you need to manage the air flow more than just increase it to get the best from it.

 

[heartspains88]

my low profile scythe fan for my side panel just got here today (bottom area). the noctua I had there was touching my nh-d14. so I'm installing that this evening and it will bring air onto the gpu. so that's one more coming in. however being low profile (12 mm) I don't think it will be a huge increase.

 

[sheroo]

There's also something like this:-

http://www.scythe-usa.com/product/acc/008/sckb1000_detail.html

 

[heartspains88]

I really like that..and don't have to worry about replacing the fan. it would match the case well also.

**update** ended up going with the cooler master, it just matches my case better.. as I have the cooler master cosmos 1000, looks like they were made to go together.

And it's 100% modular so I can remove whatever parts may impede airflow or are designed for hard drive mounting as I'm using it for a fan intake only.