Imo the best config would be without both top fans.. 2 reasons: 1. yes hot air does rise and your 2 intake fans on top are kinda fighting that 2. Yes u have positive pressure but the dust always falls from the top, and you use the top as intake.. I mean with that logic just install all the intake fans and voila so much positive pressure everything cool.

TLDR; use top intake, everyone else is wrong

Thank you for a good review. I couldn’t find any other review that talked about the thermals of the quad core version. Good to know it won’t cook itself or be too loud. I just won an auction for a used base model 2018. Needed something that would continue to be supported by Mac OS but cheaper than the M1 or M2 mini. I’ve tried windows and Linux for my daughter but the parental controls were terrible for those compared to Apple devices where it’s easy to set up good parental controls.

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Paid 10 bucks for these. Used and theyre great

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i had a 1stplayer mv5 case for like a year and i didn’t really realize till now that they had all the fans mounted for exhaust just to show their stupid logo 😂😂😂 i had an nvidia graphics card so with their limited app i didn’t bother to watch the temperatures. today i got an amd rx 6800xt and installed to app and got a fuma 3 and i was literally shocked to see that my pc was literally choking at like 75 to 80 degrees in full load. i thought that was impossible till i actually switched 3 of my fans. front ones to intake and the back one for exhaust. now it hardly passes 65 degrees. i’m gonna get the top ones on intake as well to test this, so thank you for the tips 😁 and i really hope people realize the importance of fan configuration. 🫡 the sad part is that the amd app got me obsessed with the temperature numbers now 😂😂😂

the 200mm front fans have poor pressure because of the really low rpms, change them for 3x 140mm noctuas are waaaaaaay better and low gpu temp some degrees

the only problem of changing the top fan to intake is eventually the dust will build up inside the PC case

For anyone still reading these comments, I've found that you must keep the Backlight setting on 50 for HDR content, as the setting behaves differently for HDR. For SDR content, the setting acts as you'd expect, just affecting the backlight brightness, but for HDR content, it acts more like a Peak Brightness setting and setting it higher than 50 will cause bright highlights like the sun or bright windows to be blown out, crushing whites, with less contrast between those highlights and less bright areas of the scene. Test this for yourself and see the difference. It looks MUCH better on 50 for HDR.

Super clear. Thanks!

Thanks for the info. For me i Get same case, and I just removed the tempred glass cover and my rx 6900 xt gpu temp go down by 7 ° (from 75 to 68) in Horizon zero dawn game.

I’m curious why “Intake/NONE” didn’t see the same improvement as “Intake/Intake”? Did you actually test that scenario off cam? You have results for it in your graphic I believe. Since you showed earlier that the front most top fan when set as intake does nothing, isn’t it reasonable to assume that most the benefit from the two fan intake setup is mostly due to the rear top intake fan? You could potentially just run one intake fan, the one closest above the CPU cooler, and have the same performance as the twin intake setup.

Lets assume we have a stock fan which directly blows air to the cpu, basically from the sides, not front to rear like a noctua one. Whole situation changes right? Now the top-rear exhaust fan makes sense again imo.

missed out on doing one intake and one exhaust on the top

But as physics says hot air rises so most pc builder suggest top fans should be used as exhausts, any comments?

Which model of Mac Mini is the most upgradable? 2012 is better than 2014 but what about the more recent ones?

apple could afford to make the keyboard waterproof for 2000$ machine

i have an air cooled system and run the same config more or less fractal define mini CPU Cooler scythe fuma 2 x2 140 front x2 120 intake top x1 120 exhaust rear

Hello, I want to using this config 3 front intake 2 Top front in, 1 Top rear Out 1 rear OUT 2 Bottom In (I want to ask using its for GPU)

We have the ARGB version of this and used the pc reset connector for an argb controller. No need to access the controller in the case.

Late on this but thanks for the information since we have two of these for our builds. Great info. Keep up the good work!

My setup is 3 front intake, top front intake, top back exaust, and back fan exaust, positive pressure, and top front fan doesnt exaust fresh air from the front fans, i spaced top fans as much as posible

I have the same fan config with my CORSAIR 4000D AIRFLOW

best video for the questions I had, respect!

Should include VRM temperature. CPU temperature is already covered by the CPU cooler. Nothing is cooling the VRMs so the temp of the VRMs are more significantly seen

wait, the top fans are backwards

4 fans in and 1 fan out, can hot air get out in time?

Without long term testing it means little...

Your video just helped me 2 years later^^ Thank you

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It’s also because cold air is touching the components. Putting exhaust fans on top never allow the cold front air to touch the components

How did you get the rgb to stay static on the 200mm fans? I use rhe invluded controller but the solid colors have a blinking effect and i hate it so much. Unless you are using rgb from your mobo.

My Blue DS4, I used it 4+ years and still working like new!

So what helps with high Gpu temp 😂

Hello sir,I want to know the U12S vs U12A on the 13700K Thanks for your test

The added benefit of x2 intakes at the top also blow cool air over the VRM's and RAM and maybe the m.2 slot ...

Yes I love it soo much I have the ps5 right now and also my ps4 is still here with me I love my consoles and also playstation is the best guys I’ve been a big huge playstation fan

Pretty sure 83 is temp limit for GPU so you should include temps and frequency as well.

i remember an old pc i had back in 2000s, the cpu cooler had a exhaust directly out of the case why do they not have that anymore, because that would rly improve the flow, how u have 2 huge fans on ur cpu cooler and 1 small cooler sucking away that air in the back of the case

The RGB in my fans that came stock with the case are starting to go out does anyone know if the Thermaltake Riing Plus 20 LED RGB case fans will fit? I'm looking for something a little more updated. I'm currently running three Thermaltake fans via their controller two top and the chassis. So I have two more open spots on my controller.

Please try to do tests with pc cases that are closed off att the front. Is it even getting air if thats the case ?

I use all intake for my setup. Yep, top intake, front intake, back intake, and even bottom intake.

I had one of these and I miss it so much. It was 3D.

Sad you tested without the 3090 as the size difference is significant and makes a huge difference

that makes sense as CPU has more access to "fresh air" if you add 2 intakes on top instead of exhaust and my guess is VRM will also benefit as there should be colder air passing through

with my first PC in 2017. While 3 front intakes and one back exhaust were enough but due to overlooking GPU and Cpu are reaching 70-80 deg C and getting downclocked I was using ryzen wraith stealth stock cooler for cpu after so many experiments, putting one intake fan right above cpu and another intake fan right below gpu with just one exhaust gave me the desired OC results within 70-80 temp limits