which way should a cpu fan blowing?

[BroadbandPlacey]

cheers all,

i hadnt thought about standing in front, behind a fan, good analogy (sp),

hs does cover all of the cpu, but hangs over a long way at the other side,

have bought a 5.25 bay with fans in to bring cold air from the front, at the mo all the hot air is at the back,

another case fan, 3 in total now, (LED fans, ie, low performance)

it all arrives later this week, how i love ebuyer, will tell you how it alters heat.

all the leads in my case, ie, IDE are all hidden due to my case having a window,

its 53 degrees on fully load, not much less on idle.

i think thats an answer to everyone's questions.

cheers again

[m0dm0]

i made that mistake before as well (ages ago )

m0.

[mightynimrod]

If you have an Alpha Pal 8045 it says to fit the fan blowing away from the heatsink...i've always had it blowing on to it so i might try it the other way round (blowing away) to see if it reduces temps.

[Austin]

Originally posted by KVandal
as the other lad said, if you wanted to be cooled down, would u stand infront or behind a fan. try it and notice the enormously crap cooling you get behind it.

Precisely, it still makes sense to give it a try but I would severely doubt the 'blowing away' techique would be the better option. The idea of exhaust fans isn't to cool your case air down but to remove the warm air which will obviously help introduce cooler air via intake or ventilation.

eldren check out Maxtor's site for Acoustic Management Software, it adjusts the drive's firmware for 3 diff modes. Firstly OFF (default) which is max perf (to hell with the noise), FAST which is as much perf but with less noise and thirdly QUIET which puts noise as the top priority. Well worth checking out.