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ATI Radeon HD 4850 with Accelero Twin Turbo Pro aftermarket cooler. This is one of the pieces that will be going in my home server.... Because I got it free. lols
VRAM heatsink is not exactly.... stuck in place, but is rather being held in place by the heat pipes. >_>
My Zalman ZM-STG2 thermal grease from a year ago is dying. I need more. sigh. Going to test this thing in my build now to see how horrible the temps are.
Specs in the signature. This is my pc still kicking strong after 3 years coming this October. As some should notice and remember the Cooler sits crooked because its a day one i5 p55 1156 board and at the time Xigmatek was one of the few manufacturers that actually had a bracket but caused it to sit crooked lol.
My wifes build picture below Specs: i5 3570k, Biostar Tz77xe4 (first day combo deal on Ivy release), CM 212, Sapphire 6870, Kingston Hyperx 1600Mhz Low profile, CM 430 elite, 500Gb WD Cav Black, and Corsair 650tx. Pretty beastly budget build.
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I'm just really curious right now because everyone seems to have their heatsink fan pointed towards to front of the case, mine is pointed towards the back.. is that bad?
Naw it looks right, the fan is in push. If it was in pull you would see the rear framing.
When you have a single-side fan setup, pushing air onto a heatsink/radiator is more effective than pulling air through it. Fans in general push air better than they pull.
Also if your CPU fan is in pull, you basically end up with your case's rear exhaust and CPU fan right next to each other (which isn't achieving much).
So yeah, this pretty much sums up the ideal fan placement with a single-fan heatsink:
The temperature drop will barely be 1-2c (at that most) with a heatsink like that, but the theory becomes more noticeable with big radiators in watercooled setups.
Last edited by Xuvial; 2012-09-03 at 02:54 AM.
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Your fan should come with some arrows on it, pointing towards the fan is directing the air (so to speak).
If those arrows point towards the heatsink you are pushing, otherway around is pulling. Or so i assume
I guess i need to open it up for a second time and reinstall it again then -_-
...arrows indication the fan direction? Pfffft no need lol.
Here is the easiest way to remember it.
The "smooth and clean" side of the fan is where air gets pulled in from (intake):
http://www.atxpowersupplies.com/imag...er-350x350.gif
The "framed and wired" side of the fan is where air gets pushed out from (exhaust):
http://www.cooltechpc.com/ctpc/images/tricool.jpg
So you can either have the fan "pushing" air onto the heatsink (like the image I showed earlier, the ideal setup) or you can have the fan "pulling" air through the heatsink.
With 2 fans you can have a "push/pull" setup like this:
http://i4memory.com/reviewimages/mot...8_T3EH8_12.jpg
Last edited by Xuvial; 2012-09-03 at 04:05 PM.
WoW Character: Wintel - Frostmourne (OCE)
Gaming rig: i7 7700K, GTX 1080 Ti, 16GB DDR4, BenQ 144hz 1440p
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That's a horribly busy motherboard you've found there, Xuvial...
Last edited by Xuvial; 2012-09-03 at 04:25 PM.
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Gaming rig: i7 7700K, GTX 1080 Ti, 16GB DDR4, BenQ 144hz 1440p
Signature art courtesy of Blitzkatze
Haha
So yeah, it was definitely pulling air in then. So it was actually pulling air in, where 5cm next to it the rear exhaust fan was pushing air out of the case. I'm such a genious.
Fixed it now though.
Pull means it was still sending air towards the back, ie, takes it through the heatsink to reach the fan.
Push is when it takes it from the open and you know, pushes it through the heatsink.
So if you had it in push, it'd be bad.
http://imgur.com/S0fLA
http://i.imgur.com/sf42j.jpg
http://imgur.com/X7VCJ
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CPU: Intel i7-2600k (not overclocked yet)
RAM: Corsair Vengeance 16gb 1600Mhz (black)
MoBo: Asrock Z77 Extreme4
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Cooling: Corsair H100
Case: Corsair 650D with 3 Corsair high Profromance SP120 install (2 on H100, and 1 at the back - 200mm at the front)
HDD1: Intel SSD 330, 60gb
HDD2: 1TB Normal drive
PSU: Corsair HX1050 (for future SLI - "may still be overkill" :-P )
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Not as bad as it had been pushing at that place. :P
It feeding the rear-exhaust, doesn't matter much whether pushing or pulling, imho D: