Stupid Question

[nonamebrandeggs]

I have this heatsink/triple fan thing that I installed on my video card... and I just noticed the fans are sucking air into the video card. I can't fucking figure this out for myself right now...

Do I turn the fans around and have them blowing air OUT of the GPU or leave them sucking air IN?

Spit or Swallow????

[CryptoChronic]

well ive seen benchmarks that suggest blowing air out (away from the VC) is better cooling

[Demon]

Where is the fan on the top or is it one of these 2slot jobs? Ideally post what gfx card you have...probably give us a clue :P

I would say it's strange...not sure what my old GF5900 does....*checks*

Think it's blowing onto the card...its only small though and down facing...so in thoery the heat rises out of the heatsink instead which is all around the card.

[Kid]

Afaik it doesnt really matter as long as there's some sort of air circulation going.

[giga191]

doesn't matter, altho if it's a badly designed heatsink then it's better to have it blowing towards the heatsink

[nonamebrandeggs]

Its like an add-on to the video card, I took off the fan that sat on top of the card. Got a big heatsink on top of the card, a big one on the top, heat tubes running between them, and fans on the opposite of the AGP slot, between the heatsinks. I think I'm going to leave them blowing in.

[CryptoChronic]

i experienced a 15 degree improvement on cpu temp goeing from blowing on the heatsink to blowing out, but for gpu i doubt it would really make much of a difference with the setup you describe

[Ghost]

swallow