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[marsweeed]

Folks, I have some question on fan placement for my CH160.

The fans (arctic p12) are all exhaust creating a negative pressure inside, while the temps are fine. Its causing a lot of dust accumulation.

Am unable to mount the fan at the front as its suited for a slim profile fan only nor I have room for any DIY to tie down the fan. I have to install them as shown below.

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My questions are.
1. Can I use top fans(both) as intake or its a bad idea? or use just one (top left) as intake?
2. What other options I can try?

P.S ignore the fan lighting, I had not daisy chained the RGB cables.

case has very large unfiltered holes. dust will always find its way no matter the fan orientation man.

OT but i think you can change your CPU cooler to tower style one for better CPU temps. having 3 fans pulling away the air away from that cooler isn't leaving much air for CPU cooler fan to pull, unless you have low TDP CPU like 7600.

 

[kalph09]

^ am running 7600x, on full load its around 65-68. I was contemplating on deepcool assassin 4, but barely leaves room for front panel cables and fans at the rear. Won't rule it out completely.

I previously used Fractal meshify c which was impeccable at keeping dust out. Maybe I should lower my expectations with CH160.

Any experience with using dust filter like this one or it would choke the intake?

 

[marsweeed]

^ am running 7600x, on full load its around 65-68. I was contemplating on deepcool assassin 4, but barely leaves room for front panel cables and fans at the rear. Won't rule it out completely.

I previously used Fractal meshify c which was impeccable at keeping dust out. Maybe I should lower my expectations with CH160.

Any experience with using dust filter like this one or it would choke the intake?

yeah 7600x doesn't need a big cooler, just for gaming and casual tasks. speaking of dust filters, they look fine and shouldn't choke.
best thing would be to regularly dust your components imo.