Is anybody putting fans behind the CPU

[Ketchup]

I am still very happy with my CM 690 I bought a few years ago. Like many cases now, it has a spot to mount a fan on the side panel, directly behind (or two the right of, if you are looking from the front) the CPU. I have never gotten around to buying a fan.

I was wondering if any of you have tried that? What kind of results are you getting?

 

[lsv]

I'd imagine it would be good for highly OCd systems to give additional cooling but I'd also imagine good airflow in the case would help out for stock/light OC just from air moving back there.

 

[fluffmonster]

i tried it. didn't seem to add anything except noise in my configuration.

 

[Blintok]

I have a low speed fan on my case blowing in at this spot. A bit of extra cooling cant hurt and not adding any noise. The bad thing i noticed is it started to let dust collect on the back of the board. I taped a swiffer dusting cloth over the opening to act as filter.