Quote (Ghot @ Aug 21 2016 12:51am)
Well here's a few facts...
Air bends...no problem.
Air doesn't ONLY live on the sides of your case.
A room (where the intakes get their air) has 100's of cubic feet of air.
A case, where exhausts get their air has only 2-3 cubic feet of air.
Yes, maybe 12 air molecules get impeded by the filters.
Even more yes..is the fact that exhaust fans are ALWAYS starved for air.
So when I said: 2 in, 2 out is neutral..it pretty much is. If not neutral then it's at least positive air flow.
Have you ever done duct work or anything? Same principle. Changing directions reduces airflow. The fact that the room has way more to pull from doesn't matter because the fans can't even pull that much anyway. lol
I dunno how to explain this to make sense... Like... hm.
Well, let's pretend you have a cup with no cover over the top and the same exact cup with a a canal that will change the flow of water blocking it. Even if you pour a gallon of water over the one with the canal and only a pint of water for the unimpeded cup, it will not fill as quickly and freely as the one with nothing blocking it.
Yes I know that air and water aren't the same and their densities are different forms of matter. Regardless, it's the same principle. Airflow is restricted by objects that block it and the way the air is able to get to the fan. It's not intangible. Air has mass.
Here's a diagram:

We're not disagreeing with you to make you mad, dude. You're just wrong... I can tell that nothing I say will convince you, so we might as well just stop discussing this. haha