best way to position artic freezer pro

topher · 8 Sep 2007 at 19:26

best way to fit artic freezer in antec p182?

with either the fins on the rear of the heat sink facing the back of the case or pointing up the top of the case? guess it doesn't really matter on the p182 as it has outlet fans at the back and top..

Slinky1989 · 8 Sep 2007 at 19:30

IIRC the p182 has a great big fan in the top like the antec 900 (which is my case). I have mine with the fan pointing downwards as it sucks air through it, over the fins and out the top of the case. I tryed it facing the back of the case but temps were almost 5 degrees higher.

topher · 8 Sep 2007 at 19:35

justinwilkin said:
IIRC the p182 has a great big fan in the top like the antec 900 (which is my case). I have mine with the fan pointing downwards as it sucks air through it, over the fins and out the top of the case. I tryed it facing the back of the case but temps were almost 5 degrees higher.

cheers for the info :-)

Teaf · 8 Sep 2007 at 20:04

I have a P180 which is basically the same and I've pointed mine towards the back of the machine. I've tried vertical as well but noticed no difference at all from putting it sideways. As long as you don't point it towards your DVD drive you should be okay

Not tried pointing it towards the graphics card and letting the top fan suck out hot air, didn't think it'd work as well as pointing it towards the back / top of the machine.

topher · 8 Sep 2007 at 20:17

I gone with point the back of the heat sink towards the top of the case

ie fan is facing the gfx card

thefishdude · 8 Sep 2007 at 20:43

i got p180 and my mother board has loads of heatsinks behind cpu so i pointe my backwards so it blew air over heatsinks then out of case via *** fan ther

topher · 8 Sep 2007 at 20:52

what way do you have the psu fitted, fan facing up or down? and has anyone checked if it affect temps? fitted mine facing down

PARUK · 9 Sep 2007 at 11:45

I went for the fan side of the psu facing down. There's a nice gap between the case floor and the psu cage - it just seemed to be the way to go.

As for the artic freezer, I went with rear of the freezer facing the rear of the case. The P182 has top and rear 120mm fans, so I figured there wasn't much to choose in terms of extraction. BUT... my mobo is an Abit IP35, and if I'd gone with "downward" orientation, the freezer's intake would be grabbing air heated by (1) the gfx card and (2) the chipset heatsinks. Finally, if I decide to mount a fan in the middle section of the case (in front of the middle HDD tray) then the freezer will get some of that fresh air...