cooling from behind?

[nitewulf]

Lets say I put a hole in the right side of my case, up behind the cpu. And in this hole I attach a... 92mm fan. would that help at all, or is my mind just turning to jelly as the sun is about to come up.

 

[Excelsior]

Many people have proposed such things and some have done so. It does not really help too much as the back side of the motherboard where the socket is located does NOT get too warm to cause any alarm.

 

[sangapski]

theres no harm in trying

cept to the case

ive heard from some people who have done it they didnt see a noticable improvement...

 

[Koenraad]

Many people have proposed such things and some have done so. It does not really help too much as the back side of the motherboard where the socket is located does NOT get too warm to cause any alarm.

Maybe the socket is ok but some other parts do get realy hot as you can see here: http://homepage.ntlworld.com/bubo/Backside/backside.html

 

[Excelsior]

Yeas the mosfets and NB and SB DO get hot from the back... but thats pretty much it. The plastic socket acts as an insulator between the CPU and the other side of the mobo so it wont really help to put it behind the socket. Might help behind the NB, SB, or mosfets