Best fan orientation

AusWolf · Oct 29, 2024

Shrek said:
I'm also one who feels that a CPU fan that blows air onto the mother board is important to cool the VRMs

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That depends on your case airflow. Other than that, I agree.

eidairaman1 · Oct 30, 2024

419ohio0000 said:
It was a pre-built, And my buddy installed the CPU cooler for me and everything worked fine until recently. I took everything apart to clean it because it was getting hot again on the GPU. So how it was set up after I looked at the fan arrows was there was only one intake and that was the back upper fan. Now I have the back upper fan as an exhaust and the top mounted radiator as an exhaust. Then the two side fans are intake and it seems to run a lot cooler. I'm around 72 Celsius playing call of duty versus 84 Celsius the previous day on my GPU.

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This is how it was after I looked at all the arrows on the fans.

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This is the direction I flipped the fans and it is running around 72 Celsius Now playing call of duty vs 84 on the GPU originally

Simple fix.

Processor	Various Intel and AMD CPUs
Motherboard	Micro-ATX and mini-ITX
Cooling	Yes
Memory	Overclocking is overrated
Video Card(s)	Various Nvidia and AMD GPUs
Storage	A lot
Display(s)	Monitors and TVs
Case	It's not about size, but how you use it
Audio Device(s)	Speakers and headphones
Power Supply	300 to 750 W, bronze to gold
Mouse	Wireless
Keyboard	Mechanic
VR HMD	Not yet
Software	Linux gaming master race

System Name	PCGOD
Processor	AMD FX 8350@ 5.0GHz
Motherboard	Asus TUF 990FX Sabertooth R2 2901 Bios
Cooling	Scythe Ashura, 2×BitFenix 230mm Spectre Pro LED (Blue,Green), 2x BitFenix 140mm Spectre Pro LED
Memory	16 GB Gskill Ripjaws X 2133 (2400 OC, 10-10-12-20-20, 1T, 1.65V)
Video Card(s)	AMD Radeon 290 Sapphire Vapor-X
Storage	Samsung 840 Pro 256GB, WD Velociraptor 1TB
Display(s)	NEC Multisync LCD 1700V (Display Port Adapter)
Case	AeroCool Xpredator Evil Blue Edition
Audio Device(s)	Creative Labs Sound Blaster ZxR
Power Supply	Seasonic 1250 XM2 Series (XP3)
Mouse	Roccat Kone XTD
Keyboard	Roccat Ryos MK Pro
Software	Windows 7 Pro 64

Best fan orientation

AusWolf

eidairaman1

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