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I remember reading somewhere on here that the case temps should be about 10 degrees cooler than the CPU. According to my monitoring program the CPU and case hovers at roughly the same temp (35C to 45C). I do have an Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro heatsink so I'm doing well with keeping the CPU cool.
When I put my hand over the fan port in the back I don't feel much for a breeze. The fan normally runs at a low RPM, 700-800, so that could be why I don't feel any movement.
My question in summary, is this normal or did I accidentally put the fan in backwards and it's sucking in air instead of blowing it out? No impairment to computer functionality, it's just something that's been bugging me for a while.
I remember reading somewhere on here that the case temps should be about 10 degrees cooler than the CPU. According to my monitoring program the CPU and case hovers at roughly the same temp (35C to 45C). I do have an Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro heatsink so I'm doing well with keeping the CPU cool.
When I put my hand over the fan port in the back I don't feel much for a breeze. The fan normally runs at a low RPM, 700-800, so that could be why I don't feel any movement.
My question in summary, is this normal or did I accidentally put the fan in backwards and it's sucking in air instead of blowing it out? No impairment to computer functionality, it's just something that's been bugging me for a while.
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If you are talking about the power supply fan and if the fan is installed the right way, no air flow could be caused by the input holes of the power supply (inside the case) being clogged up with dust. |
  Gingey, on Friday July 18, 2008 09:17:31 PMThe fans are quite hard to work out which way they are blowing/sucking, I put mine in the wrong way round a few times before... If you have the fan unscrewed (loose) then place some small pieces of ripped up paper on your desk and then place the fan near.... If it blows them across then you know that is the blowing side... So mark it
If you can be bothered doing all that then just look at the fan and its usually the side with the sticker on that is the direction of "blow" e.g. (Excuse my diagrams) __ | | Sticker this side | | ====> Airflow this way |_| Hope this helps yet again, Excuse my diagrams |
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