Case Fans

Hi all this is proberly a silly question but here go's, i took an 8cm coolermaster fan out of an old case i have and now i cant remember which way round i have to put it to suck air in ??. Should the coolermaster logo on the fan, face it to the case when placed at the front of the case or should it be the other way round ??. It would be nice to know before i put it in as there is'ent a lot of room once the Hard Drive is in, thanks in advance cheers.

umm theres stickers on both sides of my coolermaster fans

Usually fans suck from the "open" side and blow to the "closed" side.
http://www.dansdata.com/images/2fans/cmkit440.jpg

so this fan would be blowing into the ground.

As above...or to put it another way, the blades are curved and the side of the curve that is near enough parallel to the direction of spin is the intake side, the side that is more perpendicular to the direction of rotation is the exhaust.

Most of the case fans I have have a little arrow on one of the sides showing the direction they blow in - but otherwise you can work it out as the other posters have said.

Si

Dont attach it to your case, but give it some power and just see ;)

Simple really...

There should be little arrows in the plastic on one rectangular side of the fan case, one showing the direction of blade movement and the other showing the direction of airflow.


Edit: Like this...

http://www.xbox-scene.com/imageserve.../direction.jpg