gormly Posted May 26, 2013 Posted May 26, 2013 Hi all I know little to nothing when it comes to orienting fans and I am curious, I am building a system with the antec 1100 mid tower case and it seems to have 7 places for fans (haven't bought it yet)I do not know which way to orient fans on it. The case has a plastic window with two 120mm fan spaces for the video card (and overall venting I suppose) It also has two on the inside you place outside the drive cases. which way do these orient? airflow to the inside or airflow going out? I plan to get a water cooler for the CPU and I have a NVidia GTX 670 card and will be buying the i7 quad 3.6. Thanks! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stonerboy779 Posted May 26, 2013 Posted May 26, 2013 Most common setup is to use front, bottom and side locations for intake fans and the rear and top locations for exhaust. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gormly Posted May 26, 2013 Posted May 26, 2013 Most common setup is to use front, bottom and side locations for intake fans and the rear and top locations for exhaust. Thank you Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClayMeow Posted May 26, 2013 Posted May 26, 2013 Most common setup is to use front, bottom and side locations for intake fans and the rear and top locations for exhaust. Looking at the 1100, it seems like there's an "extra" fan mount behind the motherboard tray, so you'd probably want that as exhaust, since you'd be pushing from the other side. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
d6bmg Posted May 27, 2013 Posted May 27, 2013 Most common setup is to use front, bottom and side locations for intake fans and the rear and top locations for exhaust. @OP: follow this convention and you will be just fine.. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gormly Posted May 27, 2013 Posted May 27, 2013 (edited) awesome, thank you for the help so Intake on the side window in front of the video card, exhaust on the top, the back and the other side of the motherboard tray. How about the two fans on the internal side of the hard drive cage? Edited May 27, 2013 by gormly Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stonerboy779 Posted May 27, 2013 Posted May 27, 2013 awesome, thank you for the help so Intake on the side window in front of the video card, exhaust on the top, the back and the other side of the motherboard tray. How about the two fans on the internal side of the hard drive cage? Keep the flow going, so they'll continue drawing air in from the front of the case. Also the fan behind the motherboard is likely an 80mm fan and as such probably a bit noisy and nit entirely necessary. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gormly Posted May 27, 2013 Posted May 27, 2013 Keep the flow going, so they'll continue drawing air in from the front of the case. Also the fan behind the motherboard is likely an 80mm fan and as such probably a bit noisy and nit entirely necessary. OK, sounds good, I will eliminate that one then, I have the water cooler so seems overkill lol thank you Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClayMeow Posted May 27, 2013 Posted May 27, 2013 awesome, thank you for the help so Intake on the side window in front of the video card, exhaust on the top, the back and the other side of the motherboard tray. How about the two fans on the internal side of the hard drive cage? Keep the flow going, so they'll continue drawing air in from the front of the case. Also the fan behind the motherboard is likely an 80mm fan and as such probably a bit noisy and nit entirely necessary. It's actually 120mm, though I do agree it's not necessary if he's water cooling since it's more for the CPU and not for case air flow. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stonerboy779 Posted May 27, 2013 Posted May 27, 2013 awesome, thank you for the help so Intake on the side window in front of the video card, exhaust on the top, the back and the other side of the motherboard tray. How about the two fans on the internal side of the hard drive cage? Keep the flow going, so they'll continue drawing air in from the front of the case. Also the fan behind the motherboard is likely an 80mm fan and as such probably a bit noisy and nit entirely necessary. It's actually 120mm, though I do agree it's not necessary if he's water cooling since it's more for the CPU and not for case air flow. Wow I need to check this case out, can't say I have ever seen such a large fan let alone many fans behind the mobo. Going to be plenty of room for cabling. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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