CPU Cooler Question

[Zombie615]

Just curious what would happen if you put a box fan up against your tower an turned it on high?

 

[Zombie615]

Pssh yeah right lol

Probably load it up with dust an suffocate it until a massive explosion happens from overheating.

 

[jpole]

really? my brother used to that when his laptop cooler was broken, he used a 10-inch size table fan and it actually worked better than cooler. he didnt do it all the time though so there might not be built up yet

 

[Askei]

I have done it for more than a year during summers. When my GPU fan stopped working, I've had big temperature problem (having 70`C+ temps). So I opened the PC Case from side and put a pedestal fan right next to it, so close that all of it touching the pc case (fan facing the motherboard) and it actually dropped 20`C of temperature right away through out summer.

Edit: I think I have to mention this also, one big drawback with doing that was dust accumulated really fast so for that I had to clean PC more often with a dust blower.

 

[Zombie615]

Well maybe if there was a filter on the fan in some way than it would work.