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| Thread ID: 47317 | 2004-07-22 22:39:00 | Power Supply Poll: Do your fans suck or blow? | Billy T (70) | Press F1 |
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| 254547 | 2004-07-23 08:36:00 | > >Yes, mine blows out hot air to my room, keeping my > room warm. > Mine doesn't keep my room warm,. :D Well then. Use an AMD CPU like I do. BTW my CPU fan blows if I am sitting on the CPU or sucks if I sit on the fan. Your mileage may vary! Before anyone asks my CPU reports 40 - 50 degrees celsius as far as I can tell. Inside case is usually 20 -28 degrees. It all depends on which side of the fan you are doesn't it? :-) |
Elephant (599) | ||
| 254548 | 2004-07-23 08:47:00 | So stand outside the computer and hold a hand close to the psu fan. You should feel a little draught coming from the fan. If you have rewired something and I have no idea what you are on about then you may have reversed the polarity. In which case the fan will be in reverse. If this is the case then the fan will not cool the PSU. I guess the question you ought to ask is does the fan on the PSU revolve clockwise or anticlockwise? Stand at the back of the system unit, or box or hard drive or whatever you want to call it. (see previous threads on this) Which way does it turn? |
Elephant (599) | ||
| 254549 | 2004-07-23 08:47:00 | If my room was just a little bigger than my case my AMD might keep me warm. :D I'm going to be adding some insulation very shortly because I can have the fire roaring 2.5 metres away and still be cold on a day like today. |
mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 254550 | 2004-07-23 08:56:00 | > If my room was just a little bigger than my case my > AMD might keep me warm. :D > I'm going to be adding some insulation very shortly > because I can have the fire roaring 2.5 metres away > and still be cold on a day like today. Oh goodness gracious me. I was going to say B****R Please ensure that you move elsewhere then to a tropical area like Hawaii. That will cure the heat problem. Unfortunately you will have to put something that will get rid of humidity in your case. Air conditioning perhaps? :-) |
Elephant (599) | ||
| 254551 | 2004-07-23 09:00:00 | "All people look at things differently and that's the way it should be. I can look at a glass half full of liquid and describe this as being half EMPTY or half FULL. Either description will be accurate in my opinion." If you were an engineer you would describe the glass as being too BIG. |
PaulD (232) | ||
| 254552 | 2004-07-23 09:53:00 | I build the odd machine for gaming friends and I always try to create a virtual wind tunnel in the box which moves air directly from the front of the case using 2 - 3 fans sucking across the motherboard etc (I hand cut my own holes) and being blown straight out by 2 - 3 fans on the back blowing out. I want the air to move fast across the whole motherboard to help cool not just the CPU and videocard but the new "bridge" chipsets (which nowadays generate substantial heat). I also like to mount fans in front of the hardrives if the case will allow or can be coaxed with a hacksaw :D If you use the new silent fans you can just about have a normal conversation when your PC is running :D |
John Grieve (367) | ||
| 254553 | 2004-07-23 10:33:00 | Mine sucks air from just over the CPU cooler fins/fan and takes it into the PSU and then blows it out the back of the PSU. It has two fans in it.One that is just above the CPU and one on the outside of the PSU. This sucks the warm air off the CPU cooler and creates an additioonal draft over it. If it was the other way around it would just be pushing the warm air from the PSU onto the CPU fan and also the cooler fins. This would defeat the purpose. |
Big John (551) | ||
| 254554 | 2004-07-23 10:35:00 | > "All people look at things differently and that's the > way it should be. I can look at a glass half full of > liquid and describe this as being half EMPTY or half > FULL. Either description will be accurate in my > opinion." Depends if your an optimist or a persimist. > If you were an engineer you would describe the glass > as being too BIG. Not really. You would say you left room for expansion. |
Big John (551) | ||
| 254555 | 2004-07-23 11:05:00 | In many small form factor PSU's the fan is located on the outside of the psu but internally casewise,it blows air thru the psu,Rather then how a normal psu works..ie on the outside edge,sucking air through the psu. As to what the thread stater was i think referring to,A PSU that sucks cold air from outside and blows it over the CPU....I did read somewhere that the original ATX Standard was designed this way,It fell over as the air was warmed as it passed through the psu......I do believe it may have been nearly suiltable for a cpu from many years ago,They didnt exactly need a lot of cooling. |
metla (154) | ||
| 254556 | 2004-07-23 11:21:00 | No matter which way it goes, I hope the fans keep their cool if there is any hot-headedness at the rugby on Saturday. :D | exLL (515) | ||
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