Originally Posted By: Mac


Odds are pretty good that the fans were installed by a robot.

And even so, there's also this thing of Quality Assurance Testing that rules out most of that kind of old world mistake.


laugh I built the computer.

My commodore 64 was the last manufactured [desktop] computer I've owned. I built my first PC from components in '88. It ran a 80286 at 8MHz with 2MB of memory. I paid a mint for a MPU401 card and keyboard package that included Cakewalk 1.0.

I have always installed fans to exhaust. However, during the computer's most recent case cleaning, I noticed that I had reversed the fans on the last cleaning. Nothing seemed to go awry and the system was performing just fine. It was a challenge to my assumptions; so I thought I'd get some expert opinions on the matter.

BTW: The case sides are a round hole metal mesh but the box resides inside a cabinet.