Grafficks
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Hey everyone. I just have a quick question about something I've been doing with fans in my case.
My case originally is intended to have three case fans: one 120mm front intake, one 120mm rear exhaust, and one 80mm side-panel intake.
However, I got creative and added two more fans. One of them is on the hard drive racks. The other is on the empty expansion slots of the case. They are mounted with cable ties which I also used for tidying the cables inside the case.
I just want to know if this is safe, and if it would be detrimental in any way.
I for one think that it is pretty creative, and would like to keep them oriented in that fashion. I have seen no problems thus far with doing this, but I would just like to hear your opinions.
Images are attached:
Look at the bottom left corner. The fan is mounted at the unused rear expansion slots of my case. It takes advantage of that extra space and possibly helps the exhaust of the air from the graphics card fan. It will come out if I use the PCI slot to upgrade to a sound card.
Look at the bottom right corner for the 80mm fan. This one is mounted on the empty hard drive racks, and will need to come out if I add another hard drive.
Please excuse the crappy quality of the photos, but you get the picture.
Creating extra fan mounts...would this be a good idea or bad idea?
Thanks!
My case originally is intended to have three case fans: one 120mm front intake, one 120mm rear exhaust, and one 80mm side-panel intake.
However, I got creative and added two more fans. One of them is on the hard drive racks. The other is on the empty expansion slots of the case. They are mounted with cable ties which I also used for tidying the cables inside the case.
I just want to know if this is safe, and if it would be detrimental in any way.
I for one think that it is pretty creative, and would like to keep them oriented in that fashion. I have seen no problems thus far with doing this, but I would just like to hear your opinions.
Images are attached:
Look at the bottom left corner. The fan is mounted at the unused rear expansion slots of my case. It takes advantage of that extra space and possibly helps the exhaust of the air from the graphics card fan. It will come out if I use the PCI slot to upgrade to a sound card.
Look at the bottom right corner for the 80mm fan. This one is mounted on the empty hard drive racks, and will need to come out if I add another hard drive.
Please excuse the crappy quality of the photos, but you get the picture.
Creating extra fan mounts...would this be a good idea or bad idea?
Thanks!