Should the fan blow in or out?

[Formermac]

Question. Just finished building my dual Athlon XP 1900 system, and I have a cooling question. The case is a mid tower case. On the back, there are two fans that pull air out of the case. On the left side panel, there's a similar fan. Should this side panel fan be pulling air out of the case also? Or should it be blowing air into the case, onto the motherboard for maximum cooling.

 

[Hoot]

With your setup, the fan on the side panel should be blowing cool air into the case, down on to your motherboard and CPU. That's quite a common setup among overclockers.

Hoot

 

[oc jason]

yes blowing in by all means, also are those cpus overclocked at all,.

What board are u using, and what HS do u use and what temps do u get, im thinking of a dula setup too and jsut want some pointers?

 

[Formermac]

The CPU's aren't overclocked, the heatsink/fans were put on there by the barebones builder, so I don't know what sort they are. With the fan blowing the air out of the case, the CPU temps were being reported as 46 degrees C.

I'm using the ASUS A7M266-D board.

I'll switch the direction of the fan and see what happens.