CASE AIRFLOW DIAGRAM PC

When dust gets into your PC, it doesn’t stop at the entryway. After that it can become a functional issue. It makes our shiny hardware dull and shows up badly on any dark surfaces. The reason we want positive pressure is to keep things like dust out of the PC.ĭust infiltration is an aesthetic problem at first. In designing our PC, we will ideally come up with an air flow system that gives us slight positive pressure. In a neutral pressure state, inside and outside pressures are the same. In a negative pressure state, pressure inside is lower than the outside pressure. In a positive pressure state, pressure inside the container is higher than the pressure outside it. There are three pressure states in any closed area with air flowing through it: positive, negative and neutral. Those pressure differences can have effects that you might not have considered.

CASE AIRFLOW DIAGRAM PC

For those of us with closed PC cases, that air flow causes differences in pressure between the air inside the case and the air outside it. We use fans to move air – mounted to our cases and our radiators, fans give us the flow of fresh cool air we need to keep our temps under control. In the end it’s all air cooling really, and air flow is what moves the heat from our PCs to the outside air. Custom water cooling, air cooling, or the in-between of an All-In-One cooler - no matter how you cool your hardware, one thing is essential: air flow.

Case airflow diagram