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I have a Thermalright SI-97 CPU cooler.  How best should I mount the fan; with the fan pulling air away from the grill/CPU or blowing through it and onto the CPU/board?...  :?  

Quote from: EagleI have a Thermalright SI-97 CPU cooler.  How best should I mount the fan; with the fan pulling air away from the grill/CPU or blowing through it and onto the CPU/board?...  :?  

Mine blow onto the board but cools my northbridge at the same time as its got a heatsink on it, no fan.

Just try both, let us know how you get on  

whatever floats your boat

best if you can havce a duct somewhere, so the hot air is ducted out of the case.... or your sucking cool air in through it

Personal preference is a duct into the fan and blow onto the CPU. It may increase the heat inside the case slightly but the processor needs cooling the most.

Quote from: SeriousPersonal preference is a duct into the fan and blow onto the CPU. It may increase the heat inside the case slightly but the processor needs cooling the most.

...just what I wuz a thinkin.  Do Tek sell ducting? [/looks]
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Still as messy but Ive removed most of the bulk from the centre of the case.  At least the air can circulate now with most of the wiring out of the way/welded down...  :mrgreen:

The pipes on that thing feel really cool - is that normal? :shock:

Case Temp: 28/29Ã,° (Was in the mid 30s with Aero7)
CPU: 41/42Ã,° (Was in the late 40s with Aero7)

(Courtesy: MBM 5)

While Im here, I whacked the CPU fan in via a rheostat but it dont seem to be changing the speed at all?  Any ideas?


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they must be the inlet pipes onto the hsf

remember heat pipes flow!!!

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While Im here, I whacked the CPU fan in via a rheostat but it dont seem to be changing the speed at all?  Any ideas?

hows you got it wired in ? I presume theres only one way tbh, fan - rheostat - power

not much to go wrong tbh, unless the rheostat is nackered ?

did you try the speedfan program ?
itll do your fan speeds automatically for you depending on temp
...I know most programs like that are a slow resource hogging PITA, but that ones really good


p.s. pics... looking good now

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Im gonna try that now.  How does it change speeds?  Does it change the volts?

Recipe for disaster in my hands!  
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not sure how it changes the speed tbh.... its a built in function of 99% of new motherbords... it just acceses/takes care of it for you

theres probably some settings in the bios you could use... but you have more options with that program...

you can set different speeds for different tempretures..
so really quiet what its idle/cool
little faster when its warm
belting fast if it gets hot

(or you can set a desired temp and itll do it automatically

Quote from: knightyor you can set a desired temp and itll do it automatically

Thats the best way of doing it IMO.

not really, as it will bounce the fan on that temp, get to 1 deg above it speeds the fan up, then down to target, up,down,up,down.

Sounds like a boy racer revving his 1.2 punto at the lights.

Well its fine on mine.

Well, when you get a more powerful PC.......

mines an 2500 running at 2200mhz. telling me thats not powerful enough to generate heat??