Screwball mobo temps

Traxan

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The hardware:

Thermaltake Typhoon case, 2 120mm fans, 1 80mm fan
XP 90 CPU with Sunon fan
3Ghz Northwood
Asus P4P800 mobo

Under a full load, I was getting CPU and mobo temps of around 116. So I decided to reverse the heat sink fan. It was blowing away from the heat sink. I turned it around to blow on the heat sink. The result?

113F CPU, 120F mobo. Both in Asus Probe and Asus BIOS.

WTF??? Mobo temp went UP?

 

Traxan

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Reversed the fan again, so it's blowing away from the heat sink like before. CPU 116F, mobo 107F, under a full load.