I just got this fan filter

http://www.coolerguys.com/Merchant2/...ory_Code=F-FIL

And a higher speed 80mm fan to put in the front of my case. But when i tried it out with the filter on, hardly any air moved thru it!! How exactly are these filters supposed to be used? On which side of the fan and such.
Thanks

On the intake side, so the fan is sucking air through it would logically seem the way to go. Don't put those on exhaust fans either.

Make sure the veins on that filter are heading the same direction as your fan fins are as well.

I would imagine some CFM is sacrificed, but minimally if the fan is sucking air through it, not trying to push air through it.

There would be no purpose for using a filter on an exhaust fan.
The purpose of a filter is to keep dust from getting into the case, not to keep it from getting out.

Yea sorry i forgot to mention that the fan on the front is in fact an intake fan....

get one of those tornado fans, think it's made by vantec, and they have something aroung 80cfm for their 80mm fan.

It's loud though.

An alternative to a fan filter could be cleaning up the room so that there's no dust going into the computer. This has some other advantages, too

That's my strategy!

Dust thrives in clean areas as much as in dirty ones. The dirty areas just have much more of it there. I agree though that dust is a bigger problem in a dirty room than a clean one, but even here, where my wife cleans like she is posessed, I still have dust that collects, just not a lot of it.

most dust is composed of dead skin cells!
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