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- Jun 5, 2009
Hey Guys! First Post! Been only lurking around lately! I just finished building my first computer on Wednesday. Thus far, the computer is running great however I do have some doubts about my current airflow. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
I have a XigmaTek Dark Knight Heat-Pipe Direct Touch Heatsink cooler for my i7 920. My Power supply box is a ABS Tagan BZ1300W with what I believe is a bottom intake fan. (link - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817814011 )
My PSU is mounted on top of my case with my Heatsink and CPU directly below it if I am looking at my side glass directly. Here's where my doubts come in, I believe my PSU is actually giving (fresh?) air to my CPU area BUT... my heatsink fan is ALSO blowing into that general area. My question is if this cooling method is contradicting one another? (PS: The Blue ovals is the exact location of the fans)
I do apologize if the above made no sense what so ever. Therefore to better illustrate, I will try to attach a picture of my current layout:
In my opinion, it doesn't look like that is working really well UNLESS the PSU is actually venting true FRESH air towards the CPU right? Please advise.
ALSO one more thing and it is pretty off-topic in this section but I figure I'll give it a try. My Windows 7x64 is indeed showing 6.00 GB of memory however it is saying only 4.99GB is usable! How does that work? I have Mushkins XMP profile active and have already tried to manually change the voltage to 1.65, both yielding the same exact results of only 4.99 GB usable.
Once again, any help is greatly appreciated and I thank you for your time,
John D.
I have a XigmaTek Dark Knight Heat-Pipe Direct Touch Heatsink cooler for my i7 920. My Power supply box is a ABS Tagan BZ1300W with what I believe is a bottom intake fan. (link - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817814011 )
My PSU is mounted on top of my case with my Heatsink and CPU directly below it if I am looking at my side glass directly. Here's where my doubts come in, I believe my PSU is actually giving (fresh?) air to my CPU area BUT... my heatsink fan is ALSO blowing into that general area. My question is if this cooling method is contradicting one another? (PS: The Blue ovals is the exact location of the fans)
I do apologize if the above made no sense what so ever. Therefore to better illustrate, I will try to attach a picture of my current layout:
In my opinion, it doesn't look like that is working really well UNLESS the PSU is actually venting true FRESH air towards the CPU right? Please advise.
ALSO one more thing and it is pretty off-topic in this section but I figure I'll give it a try. My Windows 7x64 is indeed showing 6.00 GB of memory however it is saying only 4.99GB is usable! How does that work? I have Mushkins XMP profile active and have already tried to manually change the voltage to 1.65, both yielding the same exact results of only 4.99 GB usable.
Once again, any help is greatly appreciated and I thank you for your time,
John D.