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DO NOT TOUCH (programming.dev)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/iiiiiiitttttttttttt@programming.dev
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[–] 7 points 1 year ago (7 children)

My desktop has it at the top, as did the PC I had before it a few years ago. I've seen PCs with it at the bottom, but I've never owned one, so hearing that they're always at the bottom is weird to me.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Here you see all cases with either the PSU in the bottom, or with some in the back when it's a wide case. No where in the top of the case.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Just turn the case around. Problem solved.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Huh, I guess it is more common than I thought. I wonder how I ended up coincidentally only buying cases with it at the top if they're so uncommon.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    I have an old case that takes a PSU at the top.
    I bought a PSU made for being at the bottom, and placing it in their meant giving it the CPU heat in its intake. It felt like it would burn up any minute.

    I took some used aluminium cans, cut them up using expensive scissors (~5x the price of normal scissors, in turn, it won't go bad, cutting plastic boxes and aluminium sheet) and made a frame to mount the PSU on the top, instead of inside the case.

    The wires had to go around, making it a partially open case, but it worked. No feeling of imminent fire hazard and the PSU was exhausting air at a relieving temperature.

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