Side mounted fans can be intake or exhaust depending on the setup.
Pc side panel fan direction.
The side with the guard motor support lastly the fan airflow can be identified by the arrow markings on the fan.
The rear or exhaust side the side that the air comes out of of our fans will always be the side that houses the fan motor.
A fan mount can be modded onto almost any side panel although panels with layers of materials like the antec p183 v3 are slightly more difficult due to the thickness and the tendency of the layers to separate during the cutting process.
I ve been having overheating issues with my amd r9 390 despite having performed a case mod to my lian li pc 65b.
To avoid making your computer too loud use fewer or quieter fans.
The intake exhaust direction should go front to back and bottom to top.
Do not mount exhaust fans on the bottom of the case.
Optical drives at the front top hard disks in the front middle motherboard mounted on the right side panel psu at the top rear.
Since hot air rises a bottom firing exhaust fan will be working against physics by expelling slightly cooler air instead of warmer air.
By changing the direction a fan is mounted it can act as either an intake or exhaust.
You d still want an intake fan so you re getting a draft of fresh air through the pc but leaving the case side open allows the heatsinks to expel the heat outside the system by themselves.
Air travels one way through a fan in one side and out the other.
Replace one of the front intakes with a side panel fan though and things are a different story cpu gpu and chipset temperatures dropped by 3c 1c and 8c respectively.
You will also be able to identify the exhaust side as you will see power wires entering the fan motor.
Use proper fan positioning.
This is interesting as the fundamental setup remains the same two intakes one exhaust indeed two of the fans are in identical positions.
Also flashing multi color lights shouldn t be the main feature of your case fans.
Against my better judgment i went ahead and.