Rate this airflow situation in my mid-tower case?

Question

I have an 120mm intake on the bottom front.
two 80 mm blowing out in the middle of the case, on the left side (facing front). One is blowing out right below the video card, the other below my Zalman 9500 (which doesn't blow out to left--if facing front of case--but rather toward my other 80mm rear exhuast fan). I'm running kind of hot, (55 C idle in BIOS) why I ask

Answer 1

You want to engineer the path the air goes through your computer. You should have more intake fans that outlet fans so that you are pushing air across the case from front to back and bottom to top if possible. If you have a location for an 80mm fan on the front of the case then take one of your exhaust fans and move it. If there is a location to put a fan on the top of the case (the ceiling) then do that, but have it blowing out since heat rises it will take a natural path up and out.

If there is nowhere to place any more intake fans then take one of your 80mm exhaust fans and make it an intake fan. Ideally you should make the bottom fan the one that is the intake, since it is closer to the CPU and your video card and will blow air across it.

Also, you should try using round IDE cables to prevent blocking air flow.

If you want to get more air into your computer directly on the CPU you can cut a circular hole in the side of the case and install molding and a fan to blow air directly on the CPU.

Answer 2

You may actually have too much air blowing out and not enough air coming into your case. You can have more effective air cooling by having positive air pressure. You may want to have the fan by the video card actually blow into the case. However, if you have a fan beside it, both should be going in the same direction or you will just be sucking hot exhaust back into your case.

Answer 3

ok you video card puts off Heat, your HardDrive puts off Heat, you CPU puts off Heat. you will never hget it cool enough just use a Water cooled system in your computer and that shuold releave some of the heat but not all of it. and also use a Thermal Electrical device it too will help.