should the grill/front face up or down?
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should the grill/front face up or down?
afaik you want the air blowing towards the heatsink to cool it, if your fan came preinstalled with a grill sometimes you have to take the grill off and put it on other side if it is on the wrong part.
This is argued quite often. With an SLK, I'd blow into it. You could always try both!
I tried mine both ways and it cools better with it blowing towards the heatsink.
Why the hell would you have it facing away? It cools way better facing towards it. I took the grille off mine so that it could bring more air through.
Aye I dont see why you would want to "suck" up the heat from the heatsink, or how that would even work. Although sucking it would be cool if you took like an slk how it only has 2 exits (the air on opposite sides) and somehow mount like 60mm or smaller fans to both of those blowing air inwards and having the fan up top sucking out all that hot air.
I think the idea with it pointing away is to draw hot air off the heatsink but in a way that makes it act as passive cooling, by the time the air reaches the fan it is far away from the cpu anyways.
Edit: to better clarify, when i was puting my Tornado in, I had to remove the grill to get it to fit seeing as how I did not have the fan on, I did not realize I had it on the wrong way, but I was able to find out by this accident that there is a 2 to 3C differance in having it moving air away from the heatsink, compared to it moving air through the heatsink.
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Originally posted by lonewolfroger
Well, the reason I ended up with mine blowing away from the heatsink, was because I put it on backwards and then I had to turn it around.
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Lol, there is no way I'd have a 75+ cfm fan blowing away from a copper heatsink...
I just put it there cause it was funny, not to be taken as I wanna pound you in the *** or somethingQuote:
Originally posted by lonewolfroger
Edited: I don`t realy care for this smiley, nor what it refers too.
You think its funny I don`t and I wish I could tell you what I realy think about it. Edit to keep this on topic: eon, put it where the air moves through the heatsink not away from it.Quote:
Originally posted by Alientank
I just put it there cause it was funny, not to be taken as I wanna pound you in the *** or something
You can tell me what you think about it :)Quote:
Originally posted by lonewolfroger
You think its funny I don`t and I wish I could tell you what I realy think about it. Edit to keep this on topic: eon, put it where the air moves through the heatsink not away from it.
No, I think the Mods orght to tell you to stop using it, in my opinion its worse then the rolleyes one they did do away with. That is all I have to say on this subject.Quote:
Originally posted by Alientank
You can tell me what you think about it :)
You love it ;)Quote:
Originally posted by lonewolfroger
No, I think the Mods orght to tell you to stop using it, in my opinion its worse then the rolleyes one they did do away with. That is all I have to say on this subject.
um, yeah so anyways...
most heatsinks these days (including all the slk's ) perform better pushing air into the heatsink. the only one i can think of that it's recommended to have the fan pull air away from the heatsink is the PAL8045, which is the one i've got. in my experience if your ambient temps are cool then this heatsink actually does do a better job when drawing air away from the heatsink, but if your ambient temps are hot, like mine are, it's better to push air into the heatsink.
but for the quick answer, fan should blow air into the heatsink
my bios reads my nonOC'd barton at 35C with my grill facing up, ill compare that later with the grill facing down