Hey all,
Firstly a little about my specs:
Intel Q9450
Asus P5Q Pro Intel P45 Motherboard
OCZ 4gb Ram
My case
Recently I've bought myself a Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro CPU Cooler and a 12cm Zalman ZM-F3 120mm Silent Case Fan
to replace my old stock cpu cooler and to just add a fan to act as a exhaust as the big fan attacked to my side panel blows air IN.
Problem is because the ram modules is so close to my cpu socket, I cant actually attack my Artic cpu cooler so the fan is facing the front blowing the air to the back of the case, I dont want to align the fan downwards as it would take all the heated air from my graphics card and blow it through the headsink, making it even hotter i guess? I can't align the fan up because the space between it and my PSU case is too small for the fan to gather much air for intake, so my only option is to align it towards the back of the case, so the air is blowing to the front of the case (past the Ram).
It seems reasonable at the moment, but the problem comes in when I attack my 12cm Fan to the back panel of the case. I do not want this fan to blow air in, mainly because it would blow dust straight into the arctic cpu cooler heat sink and because my case then won't have a exhaust fan at all (EDIT: actually found out i can just buy a fan air filter to avoid the dust goin in, but would it be wise to only have both fans as intake and no exhaust fans?). So this 12cm fan is acting as a exhaust. As you can imagine now the 12cm back panel fan and my arctic cooler fan is quite close (I'd say about 3 inches apart. Trouble is im worried as my back panel fan collecting air and is blow out heat one way (to the back, out of the case) and my arctic cpu cooler is collecting air also and blowing it the opposite wate towards the front of the pc. I imagine they'll be a little fight of air, and I fear some sort of pressure or static could build up from this. As it looks:
...........................|}.....<_ .. _>..........{|
12Cm fan blowing |}.........| |.............{|
Air out of case......|}.........| |.............{| Arctic Cpu Fan Blowing Air to front of Case
.........<----------...|}.........| |.............{| ----------->
...........................|}.........| |.............{|
...........................|}...... Air Flow..........{|
So a bit confused on if this is fine/safe or if any problems could build up, and if anyone can offer some advice on if it's ok, or if i need to make any adjustments on positioning.
Many Thanks!
Firstly a little about my specs:
Intel Q9450
Asus P5Q Pro Intel P45 Motherboard
OCZ 4gb Ram
My case
Recently I've bought myself a Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro CPU Cooler and a 12cm Zalman ZM-F3 120mm Silent Case Fan
to replace my old stock cpu cooler and to just add a fan to act as a exhaust as the big fan attacked to my side panel blows air IN.
Problem is because the ram modules is so close to my cpu socket, I cant actually attack my Artic cpu cooler so the fan is facing the front blowing the air to the back of the case, I dont want to align the fan downwards as it would take all the heated air from my graphics card and blow it through the headsink, making it even hotter i guess? I can't align the fan up because the space between it and my PSU case is too small for the fan to gather much air for intake, so my only option is to align it towards the back of the case, so the air is blowing to the front of the case (past the Ram).
It seems reasonable at the moment, but the problem comes in when I attack my 12cm Fan to the back panel of the case. I do not want this fan to blow air in, mainly because it would blow dust straight into the arctic cpu cooler heat sink and because my case then won't have a exhaust fan at all (EDIT: actually found out i can just buy a fan air filter to avoid the dust goin in, but would it be wise to only have both fans as intake and no exhaust fans?). So this 12cm fan is acting as a exhaust. As you can imagine now the 12cm back panel fan and my arctic cooler fan is quite close (I'd say about 3 inches apart. Trouble is im worried as my back panel fan collecting air and is blow out heat one way (to the back, out of the case) and my arctic cpu cooler is collecting air also and blowing it the opposite wate towards the front of the pc. I imagine they'll be a little fight of air, and I fear some sort of pressure or static could build up from this. As it looks:
...........................|}.....<_ .. _>..........{|
12Cm fan blowing |}.........| |.............{|
Air out of case......|}.........| |.............{| Arctic Cpu Fan Blowing Air to front of Case
.........<----------...|}.........| |.............{| ----------->
...........................|}.........| |.............{|
...........................|}...... Air Flow..........{|
So a bit confused on if this is fine/safe or if any problems could build up, and if anyone can offer some advice on if it's ok, or if i need to make any adjustments on positioning.
Many Thanks!