On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 02:26:38PM +0200, mathieu perrenoud wrote: > After my yesterday's thread, I decided to buy one fan. When I saw the price, I > buyed two instead. But now, I don't know how to place them in the case. > The boxes of the fans says that I should place them at the rear of the case > and make sure they pull air from the inside toward the outside. Yesterday, > you told me that it could be better to pull air inside and the guy at the > shop told me that on his own box he had a fan in front pulling air inside and > one at the rear blowing air outside. > I'm at a complete loss here. Should I follow box's instructions? or the guy's > advice.
Sounds like they are both telling you the same thing, in slightly different ways. You want a fan at the front, pulling cold air into the box, and one at the back, pushing hot air out of the box. This arrangement creates a tunnel of air that travels over your CPU/memory/Video card that helps to cool them. Some cases or case mods also allow you to put a fan in the side, again, blowing air out of the box. The fan instructions: "place them at the rear of the case and make sure they pull air from the inside toward the outside." -- IE: a fan at the back pulling air out Yesterday in the forums: "better to pull air inside" -- IE: a fan at the front pulling air in The guys instructions: "he had a fan in front pulling air inside and one at the rear blowing air outside" -- IE: one of each of the above. > I think I'll first try with one in the front and one in the back. If it's > stupid or even dangerous, any quick warning would be greatly appreciated. Nope, sounds good. Just make sure the one at the front is pulling air in and the one at the back is pushing it out ;) I don't know which would be "better" if you only have one fan to put in, but as you have two, I'd go with the "one of each" solution :) alan -- Alan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://arcterex.net -------------------------------------------------------------------- "There are only 3 real sports: bull-fighting, car racing and mountain climbing. All the others are mere games." -- Hemingway -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
