Need help with air flow in the cabinet

**Digital OC** · 16-02-2009

I select and add this under overclocking because I think people here are the most savvy when it comes to cooling.

But, yes. I am a proud owner of a Cooler Master Centurion cabinet (estimate that there are no. of photos online) and wondering where I should place the fans and for achieve the best possible cooling. (has 3x 120mm and 1x 80mm) It still runs standard cpu cooler, but expect that it will be replaced with a Noctua cooler if there is space.

Why I want to have good air flow is due to the fact that I probably will clock the CPU a bit, + I do not want the poor 4870 card to run hot.

Doors open to suggestions on how fans should be placed, where my 2 hard disks should be placed (the hard drive in the bottom wells of the cabinet). and if I should have in the pipeline that runs from the door to the cpu cooler or not.

Cap make holes on (plan on a 80mm fan on the top) or other physical modifications to the cabinet that I should do, also accepted with great joy.

Thanks for answers if there are any, will try and keep me active in this thread today.

**SUpER CoP** · 16-02-2009

I have an old Centurion chassis (of the model with preformed well casing) and I have a fan before the disks, one that is behind 5 1/4 wells and one in casing.

This is in fact straightforward solution especially considering that you get a little overpressure in the enclosure so that the dust blowing based checkout.

**Digital OC** · 16-02-2009

I have the fan in front of the hard disk itself, but since I have 2 hard drives... this do not allow much flow through it, also has 2 fans in the side that blows in, and the rear blowing out .. thought of and put the hard drive in the other place and take out the hard drive well as the disk's in now. Will this help? or make things worse?

According to Everest, I have mostly good temps for most .. but is everest largely correct to trust?

**lorenz** · 16-02-2009

Originally Posted by Digital OC

According to Everest, I have mostly good temps for most .. but is everest largely correct to trust?

Everest readings can be trusted to much extent. As in your case, if they are showing normal or good temps, so no need to worry. Only in some cases and in extreme situations, everest can be little deviated, but not completely wrong.