After a year I realized I made a dumb mistake
In April 2025, I built my new PC using the HYTE Y70 Touch Infinite. Amazing case. But I came to an unfortunate realization just last weekend that I made a mistake during installation of a few of my case fans. Those 3 fans that you can install on the bottom? I had intended to have them oriented as intake to blow air up into the GPU. But I realized just a few days ago that I actually have them oriented as EXHAUST. I hate myself for this.
Is having the bottom fans oriented like this a huge deal? Am I making temps much higher than they normally would be? My GPU and CPU aren’t overheating by any means, but would it still make a noticeable difference in temperature if I flipped the fans around and had them as intake? It’d be a hassle to flip them around, but if having them as exhaust is bad, I’ll do it.
CPU: Ryzen 9 9900X
GPU: Gigabyte RX 9070 XT GAMING OC
Posted Jun 25, 2026, 4:56 PM UTC