Install Alpha PAL6035 with fan blowing down or sucking up?

[PlunX]

I just got my new heatsink and fan and I was wondering which way should I install it.. Any tips?

 

[yo2tup]

alpha's suck

 

[PlunX]

Well, I'm sure they're better than my current fop38..

 

[gil11542]

I think he meant it is suppose to suck,IMHO it is a good HS/F

 

[shiznut123]

blowing down

 

[Max Power]

<< alpha's suck >>




<< Well, I'm sure they're better than my current fop38.. >>


LOL

Alpha's are designed to work best when pulling the air away from the heatsink...aka sucking.

 

[PlunX]

Well, I'm at 1.008GHz with the fan blowing DOWN towards the heatsinks at about 41 C.. Would reversing the fan lower the temperature even more?

 

[Dexion]

try it and find out

 

[ZeroBurn]

alphas are designed with the intention of the fan pulling air away from the cpu, it isn't quite as effective the other away.

 

[helloedchen]

actually...i think thetechzone or some other hardware site went and did it both ways, not much of a difference

 

[Engineer]

I turned the PAL6035 fan around both with and without the fan shroud....The temp of my 1GHz TBird was about 2C higher with the fan blowing &quot;in&quot; than sucking out. Back to sucking for the Alpha!

Oh, one thing I did to make it cooler was to build a shroud and place an 80mm fan sucking across the heatsink. I first tried the 80mm by itself, but it didn't make much difference. I then placed the 60mm inside the shroud and used &quot;both&quot; the 80 and 60mm fans at the same time and now the temp is 4C lower than either the 60mm or 80mm fans alone...go figure

Good Luck

 

[Paladin61]

Wow you guys have amazing temps. I am at 25.5 or so under load. E-mail me if you want pictures. I also have an aluminum case.Lian Li ownz you

 

[vfrjim]

Paladin, I have the same case, how are you keeping it @25.5 c under load? Mine runs to 38C under load and 28C @ rest. FOP-38, Arctic Silver, Celeron 600@ 1026 @ 1.95 volts. Room Temp is 70F.

Jim

 

[rosco6912]

can lian li cases still be bought
i have a cool case with a sliding bezel from the peltier gods @ swiftnets... its black w/ white translucent slider

 

[Spoooon]

You don't know what kind of cpu he has, or his ambient temp, or anything. For all you know, he could be using a pelt. paladin61 hasn't given us enough info to start bragging yet.