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Case Cooling Question

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bryana

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Hi everybody, long time reader, not many poster here...

My question is this: I have a case set up in the normal fashion with fans (ie. 1 in the cover blowing air in, 2 in the bottom front sucking air into the case, one at the top back, just below the power supply, blowing out.

Ambient Temp is about 29*C, and MBM 5 shows that my case temperature is 33*c, Northbridge is 40*C, and the Processor is 42*c.

I have a Thermaltake Extreme Volcano 12 CPU cooler and a Thermaltake Smartcase Fan II. for the fans in question. The Smartcase Fan is blowing out, and the Extreme 12 fan is blowing down on the cpu cooler. So, it would seem to me that there would be some issues as to which way the air should go.

ASCII Art to try to show my setup, not terribly sure how it iwll work

Code: 
     +-+
<--  | |    ????
<--  | |
     +-++-------+
        +-------+
            | |
            V V

Now where I have the 4 question marks(?) is what I'm wondering about.

Are the 2 Thermaltake fans fighting each other for the air there?

Would I get better cooling for my system if I turned the SmartCase Fan around and had it blow into the case?

The only exhaust I would have is then from the PSU that came with the Case.
(Until I can get to the computer store to get a 120mm fan to exhaust hair from the top of my case) :D

I suppose some minor details about my system would help, too, huh? Here's what I have:

MB: NFII Ultra Infinity - 1/31 BIOS
CPU: AMD Mobile 2400+ at 2.3Ghz.
Cooler: Thermaltake Volcano 12
RAM: 2x256, Kingston PC3700 HyperX kit
Video Card: Sapphire Radeon 9800SE 128MB, softmodded to 9800 XT speeds(with an Arctic Cooling VGA Silencer installed)
HD: 2 x 80GB Samsung SP0812C Sata in RAID0

Anyways, thanks for any and all input you can give me to heep my case even cooler.

Bryan
 
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