I just bought a thermalright xp-90 and I was wondering... will a normal Antec 30cfm fan work great on the heatsink? or should I buy a 3 speed Antec fan(the Antec Tri-COOL)??
Using a Tri-cool for the CPU heatsink fan would be kind of a pain in the butt. You've got to switch speeds manually, so you'd have to open the case up if you wanted to change speeds (the switch cable is only about 3-4 inches long).
I'd get a low DB fan if you're going to run it 12v all the time, or get a higher one and let the motherboard/bios/speedfan control the speed, or a high one with some other sort of speed controller.
I bought a 34CFM Antec 80mm fan and right now.. if I put my hand over the cpu fan itself.. I get a good amount of hot air coming out of it .. is this normal or should I only get a very very slight breeze (I want the fan to push air towards the heatsink)
Yes, that just means some of your fan don't support RPM monitoring. Look in your case-do all of your fans have 3 wires coming out of them or just 2? If its just 2, then they cant report RPM.
Freezer64 Pro's fan also occasionally does the 0RPM, 2344RPM, then down to 2280RPM. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. I found that if you run it at full speed, it'll usually be normal most of the time.
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