Actually I just checked and the cpu fan is screwed in

On all 4 or just that one?

I have so many questions about that CPU fan rn

It’s screwed in tightly in all four places

The front fan is backwards tho

Still getting good FPS and it doesn’t seem to be throttling too much, but I’d still like to flip it. I held a paper up to the front, and instead of it pushing the paper, it sucked in on the paper

Meaning it’s backwards

I’m just too nervous to flip it

it shouldn't be hard haha

Don't worry about it. Cases are meant to come apart, and require a bit of forceful coercion sometimes. Just remember plastic has it's limits tho

Ok, I’m a Mac guy tho, never owned a pc before in my life until now, but I’ll give it a go

In most cases the plastic front panel is held into the metal frame via tabs. Examine the front area of case from the inside and you may see some tabs you can bend slightly out to release the locking mechanism and then the front panel *should* slide out

case fans are almost always secured via self tapping screws (usually 4) undo them and flip it around and then rescrew, the self tapping screw should bit into the holes on the otherside

my case the front panel has tabs and you can just pop it off, but also has a screw you have to take out in the bottom

"In most cases" was this pun intended? xD

I wish I was that smart

lol

Thanks guys

Maybe I'm misunderstanding it, but most cases are configured with intake on the front and exhaust in the back with top being a wild card. Your description seems to imply it pull the paper toward the case which is traditional airflow. Others advice on how to reverse is correct but I'm just wondering if I miss understood your configuration or if your trying to do a different airflow.

Oh yeah I was wondering about that

One of my friends told me it was correct

But my other one told me it was wrong

The one on the back pushes air out

You generally want more air going into the case than out, particularly if the front is filtered. By bringing cool fresh air in the front you're going to be feeding your GPUs with air toward their desired direction and your CPU. If you swap that direction by bringing air in the back and exhausting out the front, you may be bringing in your GPU hot exhaust back into your case and causing higher temperatures than needed. If you make all the fans exhaust, air will have to come in any cracks in your case which will restrict the air flow, likely making your fans louder and an increase in the amount of dust inside your case.

A perfectly balanced airflow with exactly the same amount of air coming in as is going out is preferred, but it's almost impossible to do when you have to take into account small little GPU fans and PSU fans so bring you more in than going out is usually preferred so you don't create a negative imbalance.

I usually have my top fans going out since my psu fan sucks air from the bottom and there are filters along the bottom of my case and not at the top

Anyone have a clue if a civilian can track location using an IMEI number?

If you mean could you track a phone you are simi close by by the IMEI I think it's certainly possible, one of my cyber security professors even explained how to spoof/clone another phone wirelessly without ever having contact with the phone. However to triangulate, as the word implies, you really need at least three points to get the location without playing hot/cold.

Ah I see. Hence why they say police/emergency services are the only ones who could realistically do it?

It's crazy how easy it is to spoof someone else's phone number. There are websites you can use to text people and make it look like it came from any number you want

From a quick Google search it looks relatively accessible to non emergency personnel but I didn't try it

Spoofing a number online to make a call is child's play. Spoofing/cloning a phone takes more knowledge and equipment but isn't to difficult. Making a stingray like the cops use to spy on protests is also not overly difficult to make if you have some knowledge and equipment.

Along the same lines you know what scary easy

How easy the push button start vehicles equipped with proximity door lock/unlock can cloned

An attacker can easily clone your wireles fob unlock your vhiecle and drive off with it

Since the fob is constantly emitting

Had to rent one of those one time, it was so strange not using keys, figured they couldn't be very secure

Luckily I only have one vehicle equipped with it so I leave it in the garage

Just like those wireless ID cards to get into a company door is so easy to clone.

So, my Asus Laptop died