Personal computing discussed
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onlysublime wrote:The way to answer that question is to ask yourself: when you are overheating, your sweaty skin are the fins of your heatsink, and which way do you want a fan pointed then?sorry for the n00b question, but is the CPU fan pushing cooler air onto the hot heatsink to cool off the CPU or is it pulling the heat coming off heatsink to cool it down?
MJZ82 wrote:Yea it should be blowing air onto the heatsink between the fan and the CPU.
If you do this a lot and can spend a little money, I'd recommend an aftermarket fan/heatsink combo. Noctua for example has some great designs, and if any of them are compatible with your system they stand a good chance to cool your CPU a lot better.
Chrispy_ wrote:That's my heatsink!
Noctua are awesome - they're not the cheapest, nor the most efficient but they ARE quiet and when you upgrade to a new motherboard socket in the future, they'll give you the new mounting hardware for free.
My advice would be to lay the PC down so that the heatsink is vertical if you're driving it anywhere by car. It's probably not necessary, but you don't want to have to find out the hard way.
onlysublime wrote:So what you're saying is to cut through the grills of the lower area enough so that I wedge in the 80 mm fan? So this fan will not be flush with the panel (will stick out a bit)?
onlysublime wrote:alright, I have a mea culpa... a few months ago, my rear case fan started making some horrific sounds so I disconnected that fan. so I'm going to have to get one of those. I don't remember about the front fan so I'll have to get one of those as well. So I guess I'm in the market for 3 case fans...