Heatinks and heatpipes?

Korrupt1 · 12-July-07, 08:55 PM

So I got this idea for mounting a double fan heatsink, maybe a Cooler Master Gemini II (apparently I cant link cuz I'm too new, but its on their website), to a project I'm thinkin up. Anyways, the real question is, will a heat sink like that work at all or well with fans pushing air up instead. The way I'm tryin to set it up would put 2 120mm fans blowing directly across the motherboard, which would be mounted flat. With the way the case would would work it'd be cool to use those 2 as exhaust fans, but I wouldnt wanna do it at the risk of hurting the processor. Anyways, any thoughts would be appreciated, thx guys.

lAnonymousl · 12-July-07, 09:21 PM

Yes it'll work, but if they're exhaust fans you'll be pulling the hottest air through your CPU heat sink.

s1ugh34d · 12-July-07, 10:21 PM

Normally exhaust fans (up blowing) is normally only useful in high flow, high pressure fans, on small heatsinks.

Its a test alot of server side systems have run on them to test effeciency with up or down air flow.

$SOLID$ Necro · 12-July-07, 11:54 PM

Slaymate has one, and did a bit of experimenting with it...

CoolMaster GeminII Heatsink - Voided Warranty

12-July-07, 08:55 PM		#1 (permalink)
Korrupt1 Apex Techie Wannabe	Heatinks and heatpipes? So I got this idea for mounting a double fan heatsink, maybe a Cooler Master Gemini II (apparently I cant link cuz I'm too new, but its on their website), to a project I'm thinkin up. Anyways, the real question is, will a heat sink like that work at all or well with fans pushing air up instead. The way I'm tryin to set it up would put 2 120mm fans blowing directly across the motherboard, which would be mounted flat. With the way the case would would work it'd be cool to use those 2 as exhaust fans, but I wouldnt wanna do it at the risk of hurting the processor. Anyways, any thoughts would be appreciated, thx guys.

12-July-07, 09:21 PM		#2 (permalink)
lAnonymousl The Who? Hoe	Re: Heatinks and heatpipes? Yes it'll work, but if they're exhaust fans you'll be pulling the hottest air through your CPU heat sink.

12-July-07, 10:21 PM		#3 (permalink)
s1ugh34d Apex Tech God	Re: Heatinks and heatpipes? Normally exhaust fans (up blowing) is normally only useful in high flow, high pressure fans, on small heatsinks. Its a test alot of server side systems have run on them to test effeciency with up or down air flow.

12-July-07, 11:54 PM		#4 (permalink)
$SOLID$ Necro Mastah Overclocker	Re: Heatinks and heatpipes? Slaymate has one, and did a bit of experimenting with it... CoolMaster GeminII Heatsink - Voided Warranty

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