Which way up...PSU?

[Youstolemyname]

Just building my new rig...

Have received an Antec New TruePower Psu and Lian Li PC-B25F. Which way up should the PSU go?

There are vents on the floor of the case below the PSU area but the PSU has a fan on one side and solid metal on the other. If I mount it with the fan pointing up, the retaining bar goes across the fan output area and the cables are on the wrong side for neat cable management.

Should the fan point at the motherboard or at the vents on the floor? (I would says vents on the floor but wanted to make sure!)

It lines up both ways...

 

[Biz.Kid09]

I would have it facing motherboard so that it sucks hot air and puts it out the back.

 

[Youstolemyname]

But if it points at the floor vents, it sucks in cold air and blows that out of the back....

Confused by this new form factor!

 

[stulid]

The Lian Li website says it should point down.

I just checked.

 

[Biz.Kid09]

Whats the point of sucking cold air in if its not cooling anything? Well apart from the components inside a psu but they will be fine.

Ok i was wrong :/

 

[Strawberry]

The PSU gets hot actually, especially on load. It's the only thing outputting warm air inside my system, the radiator barely outputs anything above room temperature.

 

[Howitzer]

If you have floor vents go for them deffinately, the fan is to cool the PSU not the system in general. Unfortunately mine doesn't so I have to put up with it altering my desired in-case airflow grr.

 

[stulid]

And what case do you have?

 

[Howitzer]

And what case do you have?

I use an Antec 902, I don't think the airflow's affected too much as I have pretty decent top and top-rear fans, and the CPU cooler fan pushes it all up aswell, so it's just a small amount of pull going down.

(thanks for the nudge, I'd better put that in my sig spec lol)

 

[stulid]

Well you got it the correct way around.

ANTEC website says fan should face the top of the enclosure.