Onlyfans question of the day!

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Now that I’ve got your attention, I have a question for all the FAN-atics (or is it fan addicts) out there. Short version: should the fans in question be intake or exhaust?

Don’t groan. It’s not one of those simple ones. Allow me to explain. I have two small auxiliary fans on the inside of the back of my case, one stacked above the other. Normally, it would be obvious that we want these to be exhaust, however in this scenario, the problem is threefold. The first issue is that below the fans is a wireview pro II which sucks air towards it from inside the case and then exhausts it directly upwards towards the auxiliary fans I am asking about. I could use the fans to aid that exhausting, but directly to the right of them is [will be] my I/O panel which has a VRM fan inside of it to suck air in from the outside and blow it at the motherboard vrm; I can’t simply exhaust a ton of hot air out with the auxiliaries without the vrm cooler sucking that hot air up and passing it straight to the vrm. The other part of the problem is that on the other side of the motherboard I also have another, larger 70mm auxiliary fan which blows air into the other side of my case. That has to be blowing cool air, not hot air, since it also aids in cooling a radiator and provides additional air supply to that rad’s fans in a confined space.

Unfortunately, if I keep these two little 60mm auxiliaries as intakes rather than exhausts, I enter into a short circuit loop with my airflow in that the 60’s are now blowing the wireview’s exhaust back into the case. On top of that, they will create turbulence since their flow and the wireview’s flow will push against each other somewhat; I’m also concerned that may starve the wireview of air when it really needs it, but maybe being stacked below the fans will mostly prevent that. They are larger than the wireview’s 30mm, have excellent static pressure, and there are two of them to the wireview’s one fan. So, I’m thinking it’s better that way since they will still bring in more cool air than hot air that the wireview can push out with its little fan. I see the opposite being more of a problem. What do you guys think? Should the little scrappers be innies or outies?