| Forum Home | ||||
| Press F1 | ||||
| Thread ID: 13990 | 2001-12-25 14:40:00 | CPU Cooling - blow IN or OUT ? | Guest (0) | Press F1 |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 28544 | 2001-12-25 14:40:00 | Hi, i was wondering which is more effective to have my cpu fan. Fan blowing into the CPU or blowing OUT? | Guest (0) | ||
| 28545 | 2001-12-25 14:54:00 | I am uncertain which is better for cooling since I haven't gone about doing a test but CPU fans are connected to draw the heat away from the heatsink. So it blows out not in. | Guest (0) | ||
| 28546 | 2001-12-25 21:37:00 | kame is crazy ;-) very few blow out, noteably alpha heatsinks. they have to be designed slightly differently to work with a blow out fan than with a blow in. its easy enough to try the fan the otherway around and see what the temp is before and after. what heatsink do you have? |
Guest (0) | ||
| 28547 | 2001-12-26 02:04:00 | hi Tweak'e, I don't think there is a norm. Two out of four of my socket 370 coolers pull air up and out from the heatsink. One of the 'suckers' is from Intel. I suspect the direction is more to do with avoiding dust jams than cooling. |
Guest (0) | ||
| 28548 | 2001-12-26 07:08:00 | I was about to ask a similar question. I recently upgraded my power supply from 250W to 300W (same manufacturer) The old one sucked air out of the computer but the new one blows it in. Is there a standard or doesn't it make any difference? | Guest (0) | ||
| 28549 | 2001-12-26 10:46:00 | of all the coolers i have seen very few have had fans that blow out. according to a few of my overclocking mates the reason being that the fins have to be designed for blow out fan set ups. i tried reversing the fan on my own setup ages ago. the temps went up 10 degrees at idle ! with power supplys its easy, you do not want hot air blown into the case. mayby the maker put the fan in backwouds by mistake. |
Guest (0) | ||
| 28550 | 2001-12-27 08:48:00 | Thanx guys, my heatsink is Thermaltake Volcano 6cu+, and i am running athlon 1.4ghz and it's usually running at 37 degrees at idle. is this temperature ok? | Guest (0) | ||
| 28551 | 2001-12-27 10:38:00 | assuming thats cpu temp thats sweet as. my 1.4 atho idles at 48-50......not to bad for a quiet all alloy heatsink. atho temps sure take a bit of getting used to after all the old cool running cpus i've had. the 6cu+ is a good heatsink but a 7000rpm fan is ouch on the ears. |
Guest (0) | ||
| 1 | |||||