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StueyBaby17

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A Heat Sink Fan should pull the warm air off of the CPU right? I'm not the smartest person with computers but in my understanding and with all the computer i have built that is what i did and it was fine. . .

A computer i built for my aunt, i bought a thermaltake volcano 7 and the heatsink fan was alread on it, and it was facing to push air onto the cpu, which i thought was wrong. I was gonna change it, but then i thought "wait i'm not that smart with computers, maybe i've been doing it wrong with all the other 5 computers that i built." So i thought i'd ask.
 
It depends on the heatsink's design. Yes, the Volcanos blow air onto the heatsink, it's fine. My Zalman pulls air away from it. I remember a thread some weeks back in Overclocking and Cooling where someone decided to test heatsinks with the fan blowing one way, then the other way. The difference was like 1 degree.

Just leave it as it is, it'll be fine. I don't even know why you need to put a thermaltake into your aunt's computer when stock coolers work fine for non-overclocked machines (unless she's [H]). :)

Hope that helps.
 
Originally posted by BillLeeLee


Just leave it as it is, it'll be fine. I don't even know why you need to put a thermaltake into your aunt's computer when stock coolers work fine for non-overclocked machines (unless she's [H]). :)

Hope that helps.
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I built her computer for her. . . and i went and bought her a cheap thermaltake heatsink. For myself, i use a SLK-900 and i have it pull air away from the cpu.
 
Originally posted by IoWnZa
Some Companies suck, some Companies Blow.
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:D

Nicely said.

I have never used a heatsink/fan that had a fan sucking on it. It makes way more sense to me for a fan to blow fresh/cold/non-heated air through the fins of a heatsink, and then duct through the fins to each side.
 
My CPU's HSF sucks, but my video card blows, it all depends on the location of the exhaust fans and the cases airflow. My CPUHSF sucks the heat off, and right above and next to it are two case exhaust fansMy vid card fan blows through my zalman, then across the northbridge and gets sucked into the CPU and out, so there's a kinda flow to it. I haven't done any thermodynamic measurements, but it makes sense to me.

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