Coolermaster wavemaster airflow w/ Scythe Ninja

Craig321 · 3 Oct 2006 at 22:09

Hi,

This is my current airflow setup:

Just noticed, the above link may not work for some as the domain name recently changed nameservers...

Mirror:

The problem with this airflow setup is that I cannot fit my RAM under my heatsinks fan so I have to put the RAM in slots 3 and 4 which means I miss out on dual channel.

Would it be alright if I was to put the fan on the top side of the heatsink and have it so that the PSU was blowing into the heatsinks fan and the heatsinks fan was blowing through the heatsink?

This'd give me a lot more working space and would probably look neater.

EDIT

The arrows show the way the fans are blowing.

Thanks,
Craig.

Craig321 · 4 Oct 2006 at 18:11

Hades · 4 Oct 2006 at 18:31

PSU blowing into the heatsink? Do you really mean this direction? If so then no. It's important that the PSU extract air from the case rather than blow hot air into it.

Or do you mean blow air through the heatsink and into the PSU? This would probably be ok.

Another option may be to simply move the fan on the heatsink so that it's on the left, pulling air through the heatsink and pushing it into the rear case fan.

Craig321 · 4 Oct 2006 at 18:51

Oh right, PSUs extract. In that case then I mean putting the fan at the 'bottom' of the heatsink and blowing through the heatsink into the PSU?

But then that'd make the CPU hotter as it'd be taking air off the graphic card

Hades said:
Another option may be to simply move the fan on the heatsink so that it's on the left, pulling air through the heatsink and pushing it into the rear case fan.

Could do that and it'd be a perfect solution, but the Scythe is made to have a fan blowing through it meaning the CPU would be hotter if I did that?

Hades · 4 Oct 2006 at 18:53

Yep that should work. Although you're taking the hot air from the gfx, it's venting out of a larger 120mm fan on the PSU (depending on the PSU type). You could try it and see if it makes much difference. If it does then maybe make some kind of ducting for direct the gfx air away from the CPU.

But tbh I'd expect it to be fine.

Craig321 · 4 Oct 2006 at 19:01

I could get one of those PCI exhaust thingys (or these ) for the graphic card as the main heat source on my 7600GT is at the bottom, obviously, where the heatsink for it is meaning I could fit something in there. Then that'd make the card cooler + the heatsinks fan wouldn't be taking so much hot air off the graphic card.

I'll stick the fan at the 'bottom' of the heatsink blowing up through the heatsink and into the PSU and see what kind of a heat difference it makes... if I'm not happy then I'll get one of those PCI thingys or something.

Thanks for the help.

Craig.