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Urgent - Fan positioning ?

iMax · 2004-12-10 17:23:13

I'm about to add some extra fans to my (mini-tower) case. They're going on the front at the bottom. Should they be sucking air in & the ones at the back (top) near the processor blowing it out based on the heat tises theory, or should it be the other way around to keep the processor cool ?

10-12-2004 5:23pm

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iMax

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I'm about to add some extra fans to my (mini-tower) case. They're going on the front at the bottom. Should they be sucking air in & the ones at the back (top) near the processor blowing it out based on the heat tises theory, or should it be the other way around to keep the processor cool ?

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#2 10-12-2004 5:33pm

Winters

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Suck the front, blow the back.

You pull cold air in through the front of the case and coll the components inside then blow the warm air out the back.

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#3 10-12-2004 5:37pm

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The original fans (back top) are sucking in over the processor, this makes no difference ?

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#4 10-12-2004 7:09pm

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i have 3 fans running to cool my Prescott... one at the front sucking in while rear fan has the hot air blown out... the other fan attached to air duct on the side panel sucking cool air onto my CPU's heatsink/fan...

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