Fan to push air away or towards the xp-90?

[WanTeD]

I got an xp-90 heat sink and a panaflo 92mm fan. SHould I mount the fan in a way that it pushes air towards the xp-90 and the cpu or away from them?

Thanks

 

[sumofatguy]

I believe most of them push toward the heatsink. I don't have a xp-90 so thats merely speculation...

 

[thunderstruck!]

A heatsink transfers heat to a larger surface area, so it makes sense to pull that hot air away.

 

[Starfox]

On my XP-90, my fans blows air down towards the CPU. Helps to cool the ram too which gets some leftover air after it runs through the heatsink.

 

[_Korruption_]

Thermalright says to have air going through the heatsink.

 

[renegade44e]

like the aerosmith song...

Going down.

And don't be a dufus like I was if your cpu fan is really close to the case outlet fan reverse its direction too, that cost me 5C in prime 95 having two fams fighting one another.

 

[ewb302]

I have read so many conflicting opinions on this. I plan to pull the air away from my XP120 when I set it up. I think that it will draw the cooler air up, and exhaust it out the back of the case. I believe Thermalright says either way is effective, so experimentation is the only way to know for sure.