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Corsair Carbide Series Air 540computed

Fan mounts, radiator support and clearances from the datasheet; the airflow balance, pressure verdict and case air heating with the stock fans computed with the CaseFlow model. Not measured; bands as on the fan pages.

Datasheet figures and what they compute to

FormATX mid tower415 × 332 × 458 mm · 63.1 L
Frontmeshdust filter
GPU length320 mm
Cooler height170 mm
Stock fans, max rpmno fans
All mounts, reference fans176 in / 132 out CFM3 intake, 2 exhaust mounts · computed

No stock fans. Everything depends on what you add.

Mounts and stock fans

TOPBOTTOMREARFRONT · mesh

Case air heating, stock fans — computed

No stock fans, nothing to compute with. Open it in CaseFlow and add fans.

Walls

WallMountsRadiator up toFilterMounting class · directionStock fans
front3 × 120/140360 mm–dust filter · intake2 × Air Series AF140L
top2 × 140280 mm–open grille · exhaust–

Use it

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How these numbers are computed

Each stock fan contributes CFMmax · derate · rpm/rpmmax behind its wall's mounting class: filtered mesh front and side mounts as dust filter, bottom as floor + filter, top and rear as open grille, solid and glass fronts as side-slit intake at roughly half of a mesh front. Front, bottom and side blow in; top and rear blow out.

MountingAirflow bladesPressure-optimized
Open grille0.88 (0.80–0.95)0.88 (0.80–0.95)
Dust filter0.70 (0.60–0.80)0.78 (0.70–0.86)
Floor + filter0.64 (0.52–0.74)0.72 (0.62–0.80)
Solid or glass front0.50 (0.40–0.62)0.58 (0.48–0.68)

Worst case sums intake at the low end of each band and exhaust at the high end; positive there means positive regardless of how the estimates fall. Case air: ΔT = 3.1 · W / throughput (m³/h), with an open-cooler GPU putting its full board power into the case air plus board, RAM and drives. Capacity puts a reference pressure-optimized fan on every mount at max rpm — 120 mm 60 CFM, 140 mm 75 CFM — a generic good fan, not a product.

Mount counts, radiator support and clearances are datasheet figures. Nothing here is measured; the same model runs in CaseFlow.