Two stupid (but important) questions...

[juniorjam]

Here are a couple of trivial questions, but are pretty important:

1. I bought a second case fan to the original for my Enlight case. Should one fan blow into the case and the other suck the air out of the case? Or should both blow into the case?

2. I am soon going to overclock a PIII 700E (cb0) to 933 MHz. I have great RAM (196Mb Mushkin cas2 pc133), an Asus P3V4X and a Golden Orb with two case fans. Should I expect a decrease in the lifetime of the processor by overclocking it? If so, by how much?

Thanks for your help. You guys are making me into a fanatic about all this stuff.

 

[Burn]

1. The top/back fan should blow out, and the bottom front fan should suck in.

2. Chances are that you will upgrade your CPU before it ever has a chance to die. I don't know any exact info, but who cares if you shorten the chips life from 10 years to 6 years? Also keep in mind that you are using a cooler better than the retail one. So if your chip runs cooler with the GORB, it might actually last longer...lol