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what's up guys Jays $0.02 here and you know what's cool about having such a big YouTube audience is the fact that you guys give me an endless supply of content topics you know when you're an advanced user like myself sometimes you realize that you are beyond the basics and sometimes you forget to start where the basics are and so I'll do something and then I get a lot of questions about why I did it and although it makes perfect sense to me and more advanced users those who don't have a lot of experience with different configurations are probably scratching her head going well why did he did that did did due to that whatever why do you do that Moz we're gonna talk about today because you guys have seen me do it multiple times where I put a power supply in a case with the fan facing up like this and that always leads to a ton of questions about why I did that with its unique freeform modular system the new master case maker 5 from cooler master allows unparalleled flexibility with the suggestible internal layout and exterior customization options learn more about how you can start customizing your own case by following the link down in the description it's perfectly reasonable that you would ask me why I would mount the power supply with the fan facing up because most people would think well you know if you face it down and you're using the vent in the bottom of the case like this and when you put this in here the power supply is going to become its own little environment where the air comes into the bottom goes to the power supply comes out and nothing that happens inside the case is going to be affected by what the power supply is doing because remember air in has to equal air out otherwise you're going to have negative pressure if you have more air coming into the case and what's going out that's positive pressure which is actually ideal because you force air to go out of cracks and crevices rather than being pulled in which is going to limit your dust intake so then it seems perfectly reasonable that when you do this and you flip the power supply over you are adding another exhaust fan effectively to the system that's gonna be pulling air from in the case which means you need more intake to account for that well guys there's a few situations here where you would want to mount the power supply up now the first one being I'm going to reference my friends bill but I did in my last video where you guys asked me again for about the millionth time and I should have done this video a long time ago I apologize for taking so long the reason why I mounted it up was he tends to put his computers on carpet he doesn't have a very big desk and he puts his computer down on carpet he's got nice thick plush carpet a heavy computer it squishes down and then this intake starts to get choked off now he could have easily done something like got a piece of wood or a piece of Becca even a leftover shelf from like IKEA furniture put that underneath it and then the carpets no longer a factor since I had no idea what he was going to be doing and it was a surprise I went ahead and counted for the situation I knew existed now lo and behold since I gave him that system he thinks it's so pretty he wants it on display he has since cleared off a spot on his desk and now it's on his desk but fortunately his power supply and a lot of modern power supplies now are very very efficient the fans run at a very slow speed and some guys even like this 1200 master watt here from coolermaster a lot of EBG a power supply's Corsair power supplies the fans don't even turn on unless they exceed a certain efficiency threshold a power draw which means they're going to be unaffected by any of being happening in the system and they're not going to affect anything happening in the system unless you're really pushing your power supply to its limit so that's another reason why it's good to get a bigger power supply than you think you're going to need but that's a topic for another video another reason why I would recommend mounting the power supply up like this if you are not even mounting it on carpet is if you only have one exhaust fan a lot of older cases only have one exhaust fan or maybe two exhaust fans and it's okay to have a neutral pressure and I actually personally go for a neutral pressure I don't like to have positive pressure because it could lead to slight fan noise coming out of correct cracks and stuff and I like to have neutral pressure so if I feel like I can balance out the airflow by letting the power supply as fan pull some of that air out then I'll do that not to mention it's also going to get a much cooler supply of air pulling it from inside the case then having it down here on the bottom because you could end up with this bit of a loop here where it pulls air into the bottom exhausts it and then it's pulled back in and it just cycles through and it starts to warm up over time so this is actually the coolest config both in just kind of looks and you know pure functionality that was a joke is a bad one I get it this is actually one of the cooler methods here for your power supply okay so then when would you mount it down well I think most people by defaults are going to mount it down but sometimes you're forced to do that like in the NZXT case over here where a lot of cases are now implementing this bit of a shroud right here to kind of neat things up so you don't see any of the wires and such now when you do this you're pretty much forced to mount it down because as you can see the intake is on the bottom there it's filtered and that's the only place it's going to be able to really draw cool air from otherwise the fan is going to be right up against the bottom of this shelf here if you will and then it's going to be kind of kind of getting choked off now a lot of cases though do have kind of a stilt system in there where the power supply sits on some pretty thick feet so there's a gap before the bottom of the case and the reason why a lot of companies do that is if you do put the case on carpet and it squishes it's not going to choke off the power supply but if you have a big enough gap to it means it's gonna be pulling air from inside the case anyway so even if it is mounted down it still could have some effect on the air pressure inside your case now lastly that I'm gonna be talking strictly to the water coolers here if you are water cooling your system it's good peace of mind to mount it face down if you can because if you do accumulate some sort of a drip or a leak god forbid it drips inside your power supply while it's on which could lead to very bad day very bad day so if you mount it down it's just a little bit extra peace of mind that it's gonna drip on a solid piece of metal and it really has to work its way in there rather than just going hey just pour your sugar on me yeah it's an 80s joke it's an 80s rock band thing you're probably some of you probably too young to get it but anyway that's kind of it it's really that simple a lot of people want to make a big deal about mounting it face up going oh my god you're going to pull in all kinds of dust you're going to just wreck the air flow in your system it really depends on your power supply to how efficient it is what kind of fan is in it what speed the fan spins at a lot of these power supplies just don't spin very fast and not fast enough to have a big enough effect on your system and if it does well then try and balance it out with fan controllers and make your intake fans run faster or your exhaust fans run slower like in the instance of my friends system where I have the 3 120 millimeter exhaust fans on the plus the 120 exhaust fan in the rear plus the fan facing up on the power supply with only 200 or - 140 millimeter intakes people were freaking out that I created a negative pressure situation which we would be true if I ran all the fans at 100% but I do balance out pressures the predator is only running at about 50% fan speed at max because it's overkill for the CPU this power supply fan barely even turns on and I do have the 140 s running at 100% where the rear exhaust fan is also running at 50% so there's some balance there anyway guys I hope this has clarified some of that I apologize that sometimes I forget to start simple and start at the basics because I've been doing this a long time and I have to be reminded that sometimes I have to start at the beginning and keep it simple and hopefully this video has helped you understand power supply orientation not its sexual orientation thanks for watching share this video with someone you think it'll help and as always I'll see you in the next one