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when it comes to cooling down a PC many enthusiasts and gamers want to make sure that they've got some serious flow going on and no of course I'm not talking about your questionable hairstyle but about airflow but unlike buying say a ceiling fan picking the biggest fastest spinning computer fan you can find is not always the best solution don't get me wrong fan sizes and rpms how fast they spin are important but an element of fan design often overlooked by novice builders is whether the fan is optimized for high airflow or high static pressure but what does that mean I mean can't any fan provide decent airflow if it spins fast enough well actually different fan blades are engineered to move air in different ways fans marked high airflow have one objective in mind to move as much air as possible through an open opening you might see the marketing for a high airflow fan focus on its CFM rating which stands for cubic feet per minute since a cubic foot is a measure of volume then this is indicative of the actual amount of air that the fan can either intake or exhaust or I mean if you think about it both going to be about the same on the other side of the coin our high static pressure fans static pressure is actually a concept in fluid dynamics but don't worry too much you don't need a degree in physics to understand how this relates to cooling down your rig simply put high static pressure fans are better at forcing air harder through small spaces they may not move the same volume of air as a high airflow fan if they were both in sitting on a desk with nothing to push through but they typically blow air a little bit of air more strongly so what exactly do you want to pick one over the other well as a general rule high airflow fans are better suited to be used as case fans PC cases tend to be relatively open inside that is assuming you didn't cram a bunch of wiring into the front of it or like Snoopy or something meaning that being able to move lots of air at once can result in more effective cooling by contrast static pressure fans typically find their homes on things like heat sinks are cooling radiators cooling components like these often have lots of metal fins that are used to increase the surface area of the device that needs to be cooled and to dissipate heat so to cool off the heat sink properly air needs to move through these fins with a sufficient amount of force in this situation to make sure that the amount of air moving through your heat sink is high enough you've got to have high static pressure but that doesn't mean that static pressure fans are a one-trick pony in fact they can often be a good choice for chassis fans if you've got some kind of an obstruction that might hinder air flow otherwise for example many cases have hard drive cages directly behind the front intake fan so in this situation a static pressure fan can be more effective at getting the air through these small gaps they can also be useful if you have a case with very narrow vents on the front or a fan filter that's designed to filter the dust out of the air but as of course going to obstruct air flow since many radiators and CPU heatsink come with fans pre-installed it's a good idea to ensure that their high static pressure if you want to get the best performance possible despite the fact that these fans are better for CPU cooling some manufacturers stick with whatever standard airflow focused fan for whatever reason to do your homework so you're getting the best performance possible out of your new cooling solution after all there's nothing quite like the feeling of seeing your temperatures stay low after hours and hours of gaming that is assuming you didn't build your computer into the side of an igloo you got a whole other set of issues speaking of igloos Braintree their code for easy online payments means if you're building a mobile app and searching for a simple payment solution you're going to want to check it out I mean the payments API is 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