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Anderson, I've found aiming case fans directly at your CPU fan can adversely affect temps. I guess it inhibits airflow (turbulence maybe?)rather than boosting it.
I assume you have cleaned the heatsink and fan recently? If it's clogged with dust it's never going to work properly.
My PC is a Dell (groan) with a very restricted BIOS, so to get my CPU fan running at full speed I detached the fourth wire on the CPU fan from the plug and taped it back with insutating tape. It's still quiet enough, only difference is it now cools properly :)
but why is it supplied that way?
surely the cpu is gona be kept cooler this way, and if you clean heatsink regularly then hey presto
about every 6 weeks when i clean pc, there is a tiny amount of dust on heatsink
and i have a 120mm exhaust fan oposite cpu fan,so alot of dust is gona get drawn out
evidently
upright case
side panell on left hand side blowing air out
m/board and cpu on right side
cpu fan blowing in
upright midi tower
would be no good for psu fan to be sucking air out cos psu wouldnt be cooled enough
and exhaust fan and psu are sitting higher than cpu
dont be playing on my paranoia LH
am no genieus but not thick either
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