How much fan clearance is advisable for good cooling?
How many holes and where is advisable? The coolermaster case hole locations seemed odd to me.
When I say clearance I mean the vertical distance from the board to any blocking case plane.
I am using a AI 5 340 board in DIY form. I’d intended to use an Anker power brick with pass-through for the battery but discovered it can’t switch from charging to not charging w/o momentarily turning off. Now I’m looking at a different way to put the framework battery in the case, either flat, or folded back under the main board. The answer depends on how the fan is designed to cool the board which I have not seen much discussion of.
ie conclusion it is not really pulling across the memory or other M/B ports, and any holes I give are likely going to be less restrictive than whatever the laptop configuration allows.
operating as a DIY board in open air with the heat sink exit pointed up and both sides of the fan exposed the temps jump from 34 C to 77 C as soon as significant GPU load is applied and drop back to 34 C when the load is removed.