So I'm gonna put a second fan on my 212 Evo and I wanna know if I should have both fans pulling air away or have one fan pushing away and one pushing air through it to the other and up out of my top fan as well.
Any suggestions?
Also does it matter if I use those pads it comes with at all? Does it matter if the fan screw is touching the heatsink at all?
Should have just bought a cooler that isn't shit instead of spending more on 1c lower temps.
Adding another identical fan to the heatsink would just increase the force the air is moved, it won't increase air flow. If the air flow is moving throught the heatsink with ease then adding an extra fan to the heatsink won't help reduce the temprature of the CPU at all, probably
Push pull, its a thing, google it.
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>implying it will not heat it more because of extra torque
defend this nvidia fags
>>58974398
To add on to this, your heatsink thin and is a single tower therefore I wouldn't add on another fan since a single fan can move the air through the headsink fins with ease
Letting it pull through it is probably slightly better just because the dust will heap up on the side where there is no fan, allowing you to clean it more easily. Push/pull is really only for watercooler radiators, and even then it's only a very marginal increase in cooling I think
Have them both pushing inward. The mixture of hot and cold air over the cooling fins will make an uneven pressure on each plane of the cooling fin surface, much like the effect of a cyclone.
This will get you the best temps. Just make sure you secure the cooler properly, as too much rotational force from this effect could cause it to come loose.