DIRECTION OF cpu FAN

[downunder]

Should the fan over the heatsink on the CPU blow air onto it or blow air away from it?

[Wiggo]

Most fans blow on but some like Alpha suck so what do ya have? :?:
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[downunder]

I have a Zalman with the fan mounted on a bracket above the heatsink.

Yesterday I fitted the Volcano 7+,but seem to cause problems,
temps went up not down,If I turned the speed of the fan up the pc rebooted.

Don't know if my PSU is up to it,its a 300W,running

AMD xp1800+
80GB HD+20GB hd
CD Drive
CD Burner.

With Thermal take fan for intake and Enermax for exhaust

I am running temps of cpu 55 system 42
CPU usage at 100% as I'm running one of these background
cancer research number cruncher applications.

Also did find the Volcano a bit too noisy,PC is in Lounge Room

[Wiggo]

First of all make sure that the clip has been installed the right way around (the pressure point should be right over the core) and secondly I hope that ya not powering it from the mobo. :?:
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[downunder]

Ah that may be the problem,clip on wrong way,

I had been pwering the fan off a disk drive feed.


Cheers

[ReSpAwN DeMoN]

Quoted from the GlobalWin Website like a year ago. lol......


"When your feeling so damn hot during the summer, do you prefere for a fan to be blowing air on you? Or sucking it away from you?"

.....that's what I thought! :p

[downunder]

Ah a suck is better in more ways than one!!!

[Wiggo]

Well that would depend on who's doin' the suckin'. :D