Does the direction matter?

spenncerr · 26 Oct 2011 at 18:19

I'm new to self builds, but I've recently ventured into it and I am slowly building my PC up.

I've looked around at cooling and such, and damn it's confusing. I've got an A70 CPU cooler at the moment but I'm wondering whether or not I've got it seated properly.

I'm new to the whole idea of properly cooling a PC but I've read up on as much as I can, from what I've seen there are many methods of doing both WC and AC.

Have I got this set up wrong? How can I go about a push/pull config?

Cheers

RJC · 26 Oct 2011 at 18:31

I would be inclined to turn the cooler 90 deg so that it pulls cool air from the front of the case and discharges through the rear fan.

spenncerr · 26 Oct 2011 at 18:51

Would that mean the Corsair writing on the front being the correct way around? That was what I thought when I was first installing it, but I saw pictures of it this way around so I wasn't sure.

Thanks.

ATIorNvidia · 27 Oct 2011 at 04:55

Doesn't matter which way you put it, as you have exhaust fans at both the top and the rear. If your temps are good, just leave it.

Ben Cole · 27 Oct 2011 at 08:54

In that picture, as long as the air flow is going up you'll be alright. If it was the other way round the fans would be fighting each other and you'd get no flow through the fins of the cooler.

As mentioned above though, if you get good temperatures then leave it. As with all science or engineering sometimes things that shouldn'twork do. In which case just roll with the punches ! :-)

Adam_101 · 27 Oct 2011 at 09:56

Ben Cole said:
In that picture, as long as the air flow is going up you'll be alright. If it was the other way round the fans would be fighting each other and you'd get no flow through the fins of the cooler.

As mentioned above though, if you get good temperatures then leave it. As with all science or engineering sometimes things that shouldn'twork do. In which case just roll with the punches !

As mentioned, as long as you are getting good temps leave it :cool:

reiyushin · 27 Oct 2011 at 10:42

ATIorNvidia said:
Doesn't matter which way you put it, as you have exhaust fans at both the top and the rear. If your temps are good, just leave it.

This

spenncerr · 27 Oct 2011 at 10:45

From what I can tell, the fan on top is blowing air out, and the case at the top of my case is also sucking air out, so that's fine?

reiyushin · 27 Oct 2011 at 10:47

Yea, that's fine as long as you've got an intake somewhere?

spenncerr · 27 Oct 2011 at 10:58

I have a side fan which is blowing air in, and a fan by my HDD cage blowing air in.

One fan at the top of my case blowing out, and one at the back blowing out.