The heat pump
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@Weng said:
@morbiuswilters said:
@ender said:
Axial fans are for suckers. Real men use squirrelcages!@Cassidy said:
Thanks to those that did give a useful answer - which I've understood as "it's generally blowing hot air up away from the heatsink but it could be either"
I've yet to see a CPU fan that doesn't blow air on the heatsink - heck, some cases have a tunnel above the CPU fan to directly bring in the cooler air from outside. As for Zalman flower, I presume it's one of those old heatsinks with a fan that isn't mounted directly on the heatsink - I'd expect the cooling there will be much better if the fan blows on the heatsink than the reverse.Yeah, that's what I thought. It's been a decade since I've built my own overclocked computers, but I'm pretty sure most fans blow down. However, I rarely used axial fans. I had a huge, high-CFM, 115-volt AC radial blower mounted on the outside of the case that blew in right over the CPU and GPU. No other fans needed.. :)
Real real men use automotive blowers. 40A worth of fan dangling off your 12v rail.
Pfff. Real real real men use leaf blowers.
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@ArieLex said:
@Weng said:
@morbiuswilters said:
@ender said:
Axial fans are for suckers. Real men use squirrelcages!@Cassidy said:
Thanks to those that did give a useful answer - which I've understood as "it's generally blowing hot air up away from the heatsink but it could be either"
I've yet to see a CPU fan that doesn't blow air on the heatsink - heck, some cases have a tunnel above the CPU fan to directly bring in the cooler air from outside. As for Zalman flower, I presume it's one of those old heatsinks with a fan that isn't mounted directly on the heatsink - I'd expect the cooling there will be much better if the fan blows on the heatsink than the reverse.Yeah, that's what I thought. It's been a decade since I've built my own overclocked computers, but I'm pretty sure most fans blow down. However, I rarely used axial fans. I had a huge, high-CFM, 115-volt AC radial blower mounted on the outside of the case that blew in right over the CPU and GPU. No other fans needed.. :)
Real real men use automotive blowers. 40A worth of fan dangling off your 12v rail.
Pfff. Real real real men use leaf blowers.
Real men use liquid nitrogen.
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@Renan said:
Real men use liquid nitrogen.
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