Positioning of CPU Cooler

[Grimezy]

Wait I can't really see the pictures but it looks like the fan is at the bottom of the heatpipe? Which means it will be blowing air up from the bottom of the case into the heatpipe and out of the top? That's how I'm seeing it but I could be wrong.

For your build you may be better with one of the Corsair all-in-one liquid coolers like the H60 V2. The actual block on the CPU is just a black square meaning there will be no issues with getting in the way of ram, etc and then that attaches to a radiator and fan that can go on the back of your case or the top.

 

[halox]

I would not worry too much about it. If you did want piece of mind and are a perfectionist there are some things you can do.

1. Run the PC to full load and check for hot spots with a temp probe.

2. Use a smoke pellet to find dead air and perfect the airflow (get them at joke shops). I should make a vid of me doing this.

3. Tweak fan speeds, and directions until you get the best temps have done the first 2 first.

Keep in mind this is normally only done by dafties like me who want peak performance, even 1 or 2 degrees is enough to tempt me. Thats why though I have perfectly tuned, cool, peak performing computer. No dead air or hot spots. My system is running at peak nearly 1100W and I can keep it 4 degrees above ambient at idle and about 20 above ambient full load.

 

[tom_gr7]

My system is running at peak nearly 1100W and I can keep it 4 degrees above ambient at idle and about 20 above ambient full load.

lol nice, but aint your cards swimming under water?

 

[halox]

lol nice, but aint your cards swimming under water?

Yeah, they are water cooled. U still use need to use fans though to cool my rads and other stuff like HDD's, RAM etc. Watch my evolution of my computer vid, they were not always water cooled and I addressed hot spots in that.

 

[Boozad]

Wait I can't really see the pictures but it looks like the fan is at the bottom of the heatpipe? Which means it will be blowing air up from the bottom of the case into the heatpipe and out of the top? That's how I'm seeing it but I could be wrong.

This. The fan is designed to pull air into the radiator to disperse the heat, the cooler in this case is radiating the heat upwards. Same as mine, it's drawing air from the front case fans and into the cooler, it's not going to disperse hot air all over my HDDs, SSD and optical drives.

 

[Lex1970]

I received a response from PC Specialist today which pretty much confirmed what you had said so that's a relief.

 

[Androcles]

As said before it's not pointing down, it's pointing up and away from the graphics card, your front fans will pull air into the case and your cpu fan it will blow the air up through the block with the fan on the back of the machine sucking it out, it's not ideal because it's drawing air from where the GPU is which will be warmer than normal, but it should be fine. The reason it is mounted this way is usually because the memory sticks you have installed are taller than the base of the cooler and are in the way of the fan. It's fairly common to see it done this way and it shouldn't cause issues.