Seated the Freezer Pro 7 the wrong way round...

[azzav17]

On my E8400, so its sucking air in from the rear, where is should be blown out. I just noticed as I was throwing away the box. It's been like this since about a month ago, and OC'd at 3.6GHz, I'm getting idles of 37C and under load max of 52C. Will correcting it really impact the temps, and will I have to apply new paste?

 

[toadeater]

Ouch! The CPU probably won't do much better, but the rest of the system will. You're blowing hot air on the Northbridge and RAM, and limiting the rear exhaust fan's output. Having it mounted that way isn't good.

If you turn it around you should reapply new paste after cleaning off the old paste with rubbing alcohol or similar.

 

[Lazlo Panaflex]

The design of the ACF7 is such that you should point it the other way so the hot air gets sucked out by the case fans in the back (assuming you have 'em). What case do you have?

Yes, if you do remove the cooler, you'll have to reapply the paste (edit..oops..toadeater beat me to it )

 

[azzav17]

I have a crappy cheap case with one 120mm pulling air in from the front, and a 96mm blowing out of the rear. The fan from the Freezer Pro is pointing towards the rear fan

 

[toadeater]

You can point it towards the rear or the PSU, not back inside the case.

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[Team42]

The ACF7 Pro has lower bent fins on one side, designed to provide cooling air to the power regulators. Having the cooler mounted back to front won't provide this downdraught in the right place. Turn it around. It can only help.

 

[nyker96]

don't sweat it, I did the same first time. just swap back and apply some new paste will do or you can really carefully turn it in place.

 

[VirtualLarry]

If those are your temps, then don't bother turning it around unless you are a perfectionist.

 

[RallyMaster]

Originally posted by: Team42
The ACF7 Pro has lower bent fins on one side, designed to provide cooling air to the power regulators. Having the cooler mounted back to front won't provide this downdraught in the right place. Turn it around. It can only help.

I've felt the amount of air that actually gets to those bent fins...and it's not much if any at all. Pretty much all of the air from that fan goes to the top 3/4 of the cooler.