Airflow Management

[purple stain]

Have a HAF 922 case.Have 200mm side and top fan,120mm front,rear,bottom.
Just bought a Thermaltake Frio and was was wondering if the 200mm side and top fans interfer with it's cooling performance?
The heatsink will be touching the side 200mm.

 

[Leaps-from-Shadows]

As long as there is air moving through the heat sink's fins, the CPU will be cooled. The Frio uses fairly high-speed fans, so you're good there. The side fan should be sucking cool air into the case right on top of the cooler, so that's even better.

 

[rubix_1011]

The heatsink will be touching the side 200mm

That isn't a good thing. What does it touch, and where? How much pressure does it seem to place on the fan/HSF?

Does there appear to be any way to fix this?

 

[purple stain]

It's a tight fit.The Frio is touching one of the safe guards on the fan.Theirs no pressure their just really really close,about a mm or 2.I was just worried that since their so close it might mess up the cooling performance of the Frio.

 

[rubix_1011]

So it's not actually touching the fan, just one of the guards? Should be fine as long as the fan still works and there isn't increased pressure on the heatsink -> MB.

I'd say you shouldn't worry about performance, if anything it should feed cool air to the heatsink and allow it to perform as designed.

 

[purple stain]

Ok,thankyou

 

[purple stain]

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