There seems to be the option to mount a fan on the front. Hast anyone seen any detailed information in this?
I’m curious about this, I see the mounting in photos, but I don’t think I’ve seen a single piece of information regarding this.
Where do you see that in photos? Considering the 120mm on the side a front fan seems like an odd placement
You can see it in the few photos in this article: Hands On With the Framework Desktop: A Speedy, Tweak-Easy Mini-ITX PC | PCMag
Seems to be 92mm? Or 80mm? I guess it’s intended to be exhaust considering the 120mm fan for the cooler is intake, so that could help with dissipating the heat.
Edit: it’s 92mm, the case dimensions are 96.8 x 205.5 x 226.1mm.
Yeah, It turned out that we had plenty of cooling already. It’s nice because it now leaves more room for fingers to install the SSD.
You can populate a fan on there, but I doubt it’ll do much.
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Hi,
I thought the front fan was 40mm.
Just got my Batch1 Framework Desktop and the front fan mounting holes are most definitely for 80mm.
I don’t have an 80mm fan on hand to put in, but I have a 92mm and 92 is definitely too large.
Thought I would share since I saw even some reviews state 92mm. It is in fact 80mm.
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I believe i heard this in a couple reviews, too
I’m just putting that information here in case someone comes across this thread.
Most reviews I saw said 80mm. I wish framework provided more details about the framework desktop case internal dimensions.
I asked chatGPT and it said 92mm saying “Multiple reviews point toward 92 mm as the intended front-fan size”. This is incorrect. Useless AI.
The chatGPT response quoted both this thread and the below tomshardware review to conclude it was 92mm.
Funnily enough the chatGPT response also linked to the phoronix review that actually tested with 80mm fan and the ifixit guide for installing the 80mm fan.
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Yep it’s an 80mm. I have a few laying around so I threw one in and it fit perfectly.
Ah so it is 80mm, they should have made that information available from beginning rather than leaving it until late or letting people find out once when they got their hands on the hardware.
I wish someone tested how the front fan affects the rpms on the main fan, or how often it spins up. The only way I’d want to bother with a front fan is if it could make the system quieter on average.
Vous avez toutes les infos sur cette page : Framework Desktop - Framework Guides
et les benchs ici : https://www.phoronix.com/review/framework-desktop-power
I might do that when I get some time, I have a db meter somewhere around here.
Oh man, that’d be awesome! Though, I suspect one reason sites don’t do it is it probably takes a bit of testing to really tell if the second fan quells fan spikes.
I’m not going to do anything too scientific, I’ll just run a couple stress tests with the fan unplugged vs plugged and see what the dba is. I’m just curious if there’s any significant difference.
Sounds way more reasonable =). Looking forward to seeing what you find!