Yes, You SHOULD Put Fans Under Your GPU (Here's the Data)
Should you put case fans BELOW your graphics card (or infront of it, if you have a SFF case)? That's exactly what I've been wondering, so I went out and did a bunch of tests on my two computers: an ATX PC, and a workstation mini ITX rig. I made sure that the ambient temps were consistent throughout, and I ensured that the PC cooled down between tests.
For my ATX gaming PC, I tested with Prime95, Furmark and Steel Nomad, and I captured CPU temps, NVMe temps, motherboard VRM thermals, GPU main temps and the GPU memory temperature too.
For my SFF mITX workstation PC, I tested with Prime95 and Furmark and captured the CPU and GPU (main + memory) temps.
The results were pretty interesting, and I'm personally glad that I DO put fans below/in-front of my graphics card.
0:00 GPU/PSU Shroud Fans?
0:18 My Test Approach
0:48 ATX Specs
1:23 ATX Thermal Results
2:31 Mini ITX Specs
2:48 Mini ITX Thermal Results
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