XP-90 Suck or Blow?

[KoolDrew]

Originally posted by: peleejosh
Whichever way gives you lower temps

 

[blinky2004]

Got it set to blow onto the heatsink. Seems to be cooling well, though the AS5 needs a few days to cure. A lot quiet than when the AMD fan under load.

 

[Zap]

Blow.

Actually depends on the design of the heatsink. Some Alphas were made to suck, and they sucked really well. I have one, IIRC model 8194 or something, for socket 478 that bolts through the motherboard. Helped me overclock 1.3GHz higher than stock speeds and runs almost silent with an NMB fan.

 

[WLDock]

silentpcreview showed slightly better performance with the fan blowing down:
http://www.silentpcreview.com/article194-page1.html

 

[sellmen]

Originally posted by: nick1985
if you were hot and sweaty, would you prefer a fan to blow directly onto you, or would you rather stand behind it and have it suck the air off of you.

Blow...but of course that's irrelevant, because air cools a human differently than a chunk of metal. A CPU fan isn't trying to evaporate sweat...

Most heatsinks work better with the fan blowing, a few do better when sucking, and some (Thermaltake XP-120 comes to mind) do about equally either way.

 

[imported_July]

I keep reading reviews that the XP-90 is hard to clip onto motherboard and puts a lot of pressure on it. I didnt have any problems what so ever, I thought it snapped in a little to easy, not sure what is up with that???

 

[Maluno]

Originally posted by: July
I keep reading reviews that the XP-90 is hard to clip onto motherboard and puts a lot of pressure on it. I didnt have any problems what so ever, I thought it snapped in a little to easy, not sure what is up with that???

Delicious? :brokenheart::wine::camera:
mmm tasty...:light:

:Q

 

[cchhrriiss1982]

i get the exact same temperature results either way i put the fan on the xp-120. I face it toward the heatsink to get better cooling over my northbridge and ram.

 

[halfpower]

I've been thinking about this issue. On most cases the rear exhaust fan is some distance from the plane of the motherboard. If the CPU fan is in a suck orientation than it can take air off the motherboard and put in a better position to be exhausted out of the case. I don't know how this works in real world scenarios though.

 

[imported_July]

Originally posted by: Maluno

Originally posted by: July
I keep reading reviews that the XP-90 is hard to clip onto motherboard and puts a lot of pressure on it. I didnt have any problems what so ever, I thought it snapped in a little to easy, not sure what is up with that???

Delicious? :brokenheart::wine::camera:
mmm tasty...:light:

:Q

 

[tomimperial]

yeah i was reading at thermalrights site it does not matter sucks or blow it will give you the same temperature.

 

[nycdude]

Originally posted by: MrControversial
Swallow.

LMAO