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Ah airflow. If you get it just right, it's like a breath of fresh air. If you get it wrong, it's like a breath of old dusty air pointing right at your GPU. If you're planning out your next build and want a rough approximation of where your air will flow, BuildCores has a neat new feature.

As shared over on the PCMR subreddit, creator bosoxs202 demonstrates it with a handful of builds . It's worth noting it's not a full-on simulation; it can't demonstrate how a GPU might get in the way of a fan, or how differently powered fans might suck in or blow out that air separately. It's simply a neat little visualisation tool for you to approximate how those fans will interact.

As an alternative to the likes of PC Part Picker, it combines over 3,000 3D models to visualise what your next build could look like.…