Dust filtering

adrichardson81 · 26 Aug 2020 at 11:47

Hi everyone

I've recently moved from carpet to fake wood in my work room. My cases has 2 bottom and 1 rear intakes, and 2 top exhausts (plus psu). There's no option for front or side fans.

Now that dust levels should be lower, do I still need filters on the intakes? I'm conscious that they cut airflow down by about 20%.

Thanks!

Sparx · 26 Aug 2020 at 11:53

Are your CPU/GPU temps anything to be concerned about?

I would never remove dust filters... Even on laminate you'll still get dust build up in the house. Which will clog up your fans, inside the system, etc and be sucked up all the time.

UnworthyBean · 26 Aug 2020 at 12:06

Keep them on, there is still dust in the air that will get sucked up. It's much easier to just clean the filters every so often than it will be to clean the inside

ttaskmaster · 26 Aug 2020 at 12:33

I would suggest swapping the direction of those fans. The bottom is where you'll likely encounter the most dust - Having the bottom fans exhausting means they're pushing air out (and dust away) from there, rather than sucking air up and in from it.

adrichardson81 · 26 Aug 2020 at 12:35

Thanks - temps aren't bad, but I'm not sure what throwing a 3080 in there will do! I'll stick with the dust filters at the bottom and have a play with the rear fan.

adrichardson81 · 26 Aug 2020 at 12:39

ttaskmaster said:
I would suggest swapping the direction of those fans. The bottom is where you'll likely encounter the most dust - Having the bottom fans exhausting means they're pushing air out (and dust away) from there, rather than sucking air up and in from it.

It's a bit of a funny setup - I'm in a UMX4 Pro, so space is quite tight. If I flip the top fans so they're all intakes, the gpu will be getting hot air from the radiator. Also it's quite close to the bottom fans, so I'd be worried the GPU's intakes will end up fighting the case's exhausts.

ttaskmaster · 26 Aug 2020 at 12:45

adrichardson81 said:
It's a bit of a funny setup - I'm in a UMX4 Pro, so space is quite tight. If I flip the top fans so they're all intakes, the gpu will be getting hot air from the radiator. Also it's quite close to the bottom fans, so I'd be worried the GPU's intakes will end up fighting the case's exhausts.

This is nature's way of telling you that you need full custom-loop cooling....!!

adrichardson81 · 26 Aug 2020 at 16:12

ttaskmaster said:
This is nature's way of telling you that you need full custom-loop cooling....!!

Yeah I'm tempted. Or at least tempted to stick an AIO on there. [Goes off to check clearances]