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Antec 1200 cooling question

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hello people,i have an antec 1200 with a thermalright TRUE and 2x noctua s12 attached to it.The fans are sucking air from the east and blowing out to the west.At the back of the tower there is an exhaust fan.My question is "Is it better to have noctua fan no2 sukcing air from the thermalright heatsink and blowing it out the back through the exhaust fan or is it better to have noctua fan no2 sucking air onto the thermalright heatsink(west to east)....this of course would be sucking in the opposite direction to exhaust fan....which way is provides better cooling?

thanks in advance
 
yeah first off the west to east thing.. confusing as hell.. but yeah you want it doing a push pull toward the rear fan.. and ive actually had better cooling turning the top fan over so that its blowing air into the case directly above the heatsink..
 
And just to show there is more than one way to skin a cat I have mounted heatsinks so the fan pushed air up through the heatsink and out into the top large fan and flipped the rear case fan around so it sucks air in and blows it on the side of the heatsink. Excellent result in reducing idle temps, load temps the same, only one fan on the cpu heatsink. Was inspired by thebrilliant revelation that heat rises. :D

If you have the time experiment, that case has so many possible cooling setups its hard to determine any one best setup.

From what I can gather about your question I can say that having the fans on each side of the heatsink facing each other and blowing into the heatsink is highly unlikely to be the best way to go. The conventional method probably used by 97% of people would be as you describe in your first part of the post, everything blowing east to west and out the rear exaust.
 
BillParrish said:
And just to show there is more than one way to skin a cat I have mounted heatsinks so the fan pushed air up through the heatsink and out into the top large fan and flipped the rear case fan around so it sucks air in and blows it on the side of the heatsink. Excellent result in reducing idle temps, load temps the same, only one fan on the cpu heatsink. Was inspired by thebrilliant revelation that heat rises. :D

If you have the time experiment, that case has so many possible cooling setups its hard to determine any one best setup.

From what I can gather about your question I can say that having the fans on each side of the heatsink facing each other and blowing into the heatsink is highly unlikely to be the best way to go. The conventional method probably used by 97% of people would be as you describe in your first part of the post, everything blowing east to west and out the rear exaust.
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yeah ive heard of people doing that.. but since i use amd and am2 systems its a wee bit hard for me to mount a heatsink to exhaust out of the top fan..wish i could though..
 
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