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You have a nice looking Bucket!

I build "L" shaped vents from cardboard to cover the fans thus reducing light leak. You might want to put a dust filter on the intake fan, well worth it in my opinion.

Very interesting data. I like using these SilverStone filters since the mesh is a lot finer and is more effective at, well, filtering dust compared to the black PVC ones. Would have been nice to have those included in the comparison; from what I have seen they should perform pretty well.

In that case(pun) I would take the top 360 rad, and place outtake fans. And outtake at back. For the front I would personally go with cooling performance(mesh) but if you go for design you can Go for glass. And still at the bottom intake, but you can theoretically buy extra filters here its not totally necessary, but I personally think it's cool you don't have to clean so often.

Just buy a decent quality dust filter for your specific fan size for intake fan, positive pressure should then keep dust from getting in anywhere else.

I'm probably going to buy some dust filters for the front (Amazon) and take off the front panel. Should prevent most of the dust from getting in.

Yes. I use the stock filter on the bottom, it does it’s job well enough. The fan filter I purchased is this one. I picked up kryonaut as well. Definitely helped get the desired result. I’m sure you’ll do fine.

No, your feedback is still appreciated! To be honest, I might consider buying a second one and mounting it outside now that you say there's nothing wrong with it. I just didn't know if it had any effect.

These cougar fans look also quite impressive. I honestly don't know anything about case fans so I just checked 120mm case fan and checked what had decent reviews, to be honest. I might just cancel my order and pick these up instead, thanks!

Also, I hope you don't mind answering, what fan filter do you use?

I was looking at these and they seemed pretty decent.

https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B00ARB5E8U/ref=od_aui_slice_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1

> how you added dust filters

There are dust filters you can buy. I had a set of these Silverstone 120mm dust filters leftover from builds. I bought them years ago when they were on sale. You can get any dust filter of the same size. Stockings will work too if you don't want to spend.
 
I placed the dust filters in between the mesh front plates and front fans. You can take those apart. The black mount for the fans have mounting holes, conveniently the same size as the mounting holes for the dust filters.
Or you can just slap it in the front, since those dust filters are magnetic.
Cleaning them, I just use vacuum cleaner. Once a year, I take apart all my pc's for spring cleaning.

That large fan up top moves a lot of air even on low speed, so I took advantage of that. The vertical cooler also helps direct airflow for my passively cooled gpu. But if you have a hot gpu, you will have hotter temps on your CPU. When this case had a bluray drive, I flipped the back fan to intake. So it depends on your cooler and setup, so play around with yours :)

Yea, been there, was annoying to clean this up. But! There's a way to prevent that, or at least make the clean-up disassembly much less frequent. This is for a unit which is out of warranty, of course, because once you'll do this - your warranty is void:

1) Take a 120mm or 92mm holesaw.

2) Remove the PS4's cover panel which sits above the fan's intake.

3) Drill a hole in this panel using one of those holesaws.

4) Screw a fan mesh filter on top of the hole you just drilled, something like: https://www.amazon.com/Silverstone-Filter-Magnet-Cooling-FF123B/dp/B00ARB5E8U (there are many models, both in 92mm and 120mm sizes, choose whichever you want). You might need fan screws if these don't come with screws, alternatively you can just use glue gun to glue the frame of the filter to the PS4's panel.

4) Add stick-on silicone legs to the "bottom" panel of your PS4 if the hole you drilled happened to be on that side and you like to lay it flat instead of making it stand vertically.

That's it, problem solved! Most of the dust will accumulate on the surface of the fan filter, which you can simply vacuum off.

Well, aside from annual dust blowing (which is annoying since you have to remove some screws and the interior power supply for best cleaning results) you can either make a custom enclosure covered by plastic/metal mesh (with holes small enough to catch most dust/hair) or, if you're handy with some holesaw tools - drill a 92mm or 120mm hole in the exterior cover right above the cooling fan and permanently mount (using some screws or glue, doesn't really matter) a fan filter which is used in PC cases, something like this (doesn't have to be this exact model, you can use whichever you like):

https://www.amazon.com/Silverstone-Filter-Magnet-Cooling-FF123B/dp/B00ARB5E8U

Then just vacuum the surface of this filter when it gets visibly dirty or each time you vacuum the whole room.

I don't have an answer to your question (sorry!) but I do have a suggestion: fan filters. They're about $10 each and I just wipe 'em off every month or so to remove the accumulated dust. Link: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00ARB5E8U/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 If they don't fit, superglue is what I used.

Chinchilla owner here same situation. My rig was getting gunked up like that about every 2-4 weeks but on the inside. So I invested in some ultra fine filters and that helped out greatly. I still have a crazy amount of stuff to clean out but at least the volcanic ash dust is staying out

Here are the ones I got, maybe they'll help with yours. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00ARB5E8U/ref=s9_hps_bw_g147_i3

1. That's not something to worry about. Windows(and most other operating systems) cache as much stuff as possible in RAM. When the RAM is needed, Windows releases it for the other program(s) to use.

2. Ah I see. You may want to consider using dust filters. Those will keep the gunk out. Just remember to clean them regularly. And going AIO doesn't fix the dust problem either, since the dust and dirt will still get into the radiator fan(s).

3. It's pretty easy. And it certainly won't break anything. The worst that happens is that in the games that don't support it, you go into the Nvidia control panel and turn off SLI.

You might take a look at these. They are magnetic so it'll be easy to put them on and take off for cleaning. Should work well with the R5.

Silverstone Tek 120mm Ultra fine fan Filter

I use one for my rear intake.

Looks like that case has 2 spots for 120mm fans, probably wouldn't use the 80mm. I use these filters, they restrict a bit of airflow but they work really well.

Are you talking about a dust filter? Something like this?

I'm not getting the full picture, and giving a little more info on how your build is constricted could change things quite a bit. How is the heatsink a little too big? How are the drives installed and where, and how does that interfere with the side panel and heat sink? Why are you considering dust filters/mesh and where do you plan on placing it?

100R has pretty decent airflow, and generally you don't really need a lot of fans. Get what you like the aesthetics of. AF series is pretty standard and well received, so you should be fine.

You can also get dust filters like these if you really hate dust, but generally not necessary.

Maybe you can get magnetic fan filters to cover those?

For example

Cardboard would be fine too if you just want a cheap solution, as long as you have a reasonable amount of air moving through the case (e.g. air intakes on the front and air exhausting at the rear).

You want cool air coming in and hot air going out of your PC. Positive pressure encourages that. The reason it's so contentious is because not a lot of cases come with dust filters for the fan positions. The best solution is to do positive pressure and buy a bunch of these http://www.amazon.com/Silverstone-Tek-Filter-Cooling-FF123B/dp/B00ARB5E8U/ref=sr_1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1424662419&sr=1-1&keywords=fan+dust+filter

Fractal cases have a floor vent for PSU intake and mounting the PSU fan down is generally the best option for watercooling because it minimises the risk of a leak coming into contact with the AC side. How much space do you have between the PSU and the shroud? As long as they're not jammed in tight that rad should still work.

You can add a filter like this or this on the rear fan.

It's possible there was a revision to the case that added a front filter at some point. Maybe it didn't always come with one. I've used these before:

https://www.amazon.com/SilverStone-Technology-SST-FF121-Filter-Cooling/dp/B00ARB5E8U?th=1

They screw on with the fan to add dust filters. A little more of a pain to take off and clean though.

Demciflex, pricey but comes in all kind of sizes. Cheaper alternatives are silverstone magnetic, comes in 120/140mm, very fine mesh. I have to blow them quite often, catches a lot.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00ARB5E8U/ref=emc_b_5_mob_t

They were from another case that I just cut to size. These would work just as well:

SilverStone Technology SST-FF123B 120mm Ultra Fine Fan Filter with Magnet Cooling https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00ARB5E8U/

I picked up some magnetic filters from amazon with ultra fine mesh. They work well and are easy to remove and clean.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00ARB5E8U/ref=cm_sw_r_other_apa_x702AbVGY1V4H

I've used these magnetic ones.

https://www.amazon.ca/Silverstone-Filter-Magnet-Cooling-FF123B/dp/B00ARB5E8U/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1505830535&sr=8-1&keywords=120mm+filter

Fan filters you can buy anywhere. Example: https://smile.amazon.com/Silverstone-Filter-Magnet-Cooling-FF123B/dp/B00ARB5E8U/

NZXT, Phanteks, and Fractal Design make some cases with filters for the intakes.

Here's a case with a HEPA filter: http://www.silverstonetek.com/product.php?area=en&pid=525

What about something like: http://www.computerdust.com/products/cpu_covers.html to put over your existing cases? Looks ugly as hell, though.

You can get magnetic dust filters, or even snap-ons if you want.

https://www.amazon.com/Silverstone-Filter-Magnet-Cooling-FF123B/dp/B00ARB5E8U/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1501342919&sr=8-5&keywords=computer+fan+dust+filter

M80 I would recommend a mesh fan grille cover over that bottom intake fan if you don't have one on there already, saves you a lot of dusting down the line- https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00ARB5E8U/ Looks nice though!

You've got a couple of options the way I see it.

• Buy or make a dust filter, a magnetic one like this is a fairly eloquent solution.
• Create some kind of cover panel for it. This might be a bit more of a task than the filter. You could try to find some kind of black plastic which you could cut out that shape from, including the screw mounts to make it look totally 100% legit.
• Grab some foam from a department store, cut out a 120mm x 120mm square, and screw it in covering the mounting spot on the inside, similar to how the Define R4 does.

Also, when your PC is off there's almost a hole in there for dust to fall through anyway.

Here you go

You could find some appropriate fabric and make a filter yourself like this. I personally just have one of these 120mm magnetic filers covering my PSU intake. I don't have any filtering on the side as it doesn't pull in quite as much dust. Though my graphics card isn't a blower style card, so I just open the case once every couple of months and give it a little blast with canned air. But, if I had a blower style card I'd want it filtered as you'd have to open up the card to give it a good clean. If you don't want to make your own filter, something like this might be a good option.

ahh ok, in that case, this might work for you