Suck or Blow - Thermalright Ultra 120 Extreme

You definately want them both pointing the same direction. I suggest both pointing at the back of the case (one will push air into the heat sink and the other will remove it). If one is more powerfull it should push (you get better heat transfer with positive presure.

I did this test last winter and found that running two fans will make no difference on the temp. I did find that it cool quicker in dual mode to get back to idle temp much faster. It also made no difference when overclocking either.

I tested it with a Q6600 non G0 stepping, evga 680i sli, 4 gb ddr2, inside a Gigabyte 3d aurora 570, oh with 119 cfm fans... antec fans I believe. REALLY LOUD FANS!!! The room temp was 65f.

I could see possible gains if you do both suck as cool air would enter through the middle of the heat sink directly hitting the heat pipes cooling them as well as passing cooler air over the fins better. Although other may not agree, there may be some benefit to this.... but your fan will be fighting each other.


Good air flow is good, but if you can remove the air that is coming out into the case, then you will be in business. I do not think you will get any better performance that with just 1 fan.

So it would look something like this? The fan blows in one and the other could blow it out then the fan at my back of my case would blow it out? (I might as well use 2 since I already ordered 2 along with 8 gigs of ram).

Btw these are the fans I got I didn't look too much into it like I did with those SilentX's http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applicat [...] &CatId=494

lol nice diagram trunkz

Ok, if you want to decrease your temp with the TRUE, then build a tunnel/funnel for it. When I did this with cardboard I noticed up to a 5c drop in idle temps and a little over a max of 10c drop at load temps. I did run a push pull setup when I built the tunnel/funnel for them. I had the TRUE completely enclosed and made sure air flowed through and could not leak out. I piped the air to two rear 120 fans to remove the hot air.

I will see if I still have picture from it. I did this test a couple of weeks after I tested the push pull and after a move and a large break up I may have missplaced or lost them. Oh, when I did the push pull, I also found that regardless of the fans cfm, it made no real difference at peak temperatures. A fan that has a higher cfm took longer to get to the same peak temp, but it did get there. Also, after at load, a fan with a higher cfm got cooler or to idle temps faster. But all fans went to the same temperature.

After I did this test, I went back down to a 60cfm fan that the original benchmark I read (I believe it was anandtech) did. I did it for quietness.



Sorry about my posts if they sound choppy or anything. My mind has been fried for the past couple of days. College full time, work full time (helpdesk..... just me for 500 employees..... yeah, talk about fun...), and a personal life to get in the way. I do realize I dropped a lot of "s"' off in my last post. If you don't like it, you'll get over it.

Yeah, I was really happy with it. I was wondering why people didn’t make kits for this because it really drop temperatures. The simple fact is that if you can direct the air through the TRUE, you temps will drop. Please take into consideration what my ambient temps were, the case I had and also the layout of my motherboard. The other nice this is that with the tunnel, heat from the video card does not affect the heatsink as much. As heat rises from the back of the video card, it could warm the case air enough or just rise into the heatsink. With the tunnel, you can block that warmer air from rising into the cpu heatsink. This is why the cases that separate the main components can run so cool or why when placing the psu at the bottom reduces case temps.

Although I am general IT right now, my passion is with desktops. Even further, I am really into exploring exotic cooling methods for air cooling. My goal is to run at ambient temps.

My next exhibition now is with my cosmos case. It runs dead silent, but hot. I am looking into ways to cool it with max air flow but with no noise. I want to try thermalrights heatsink that good behind the motherboard to help cool the cpu. That could be interesting.


My other goal is to find someone around me who wants to start up a PC design business. As in, we put PC’s together and sell them. My goal is to build extreme quality, extreme cooling, extremely silent, for low cost. Instead of buying a Dell, Alienware, HP, Cyberpower PC, or anyone like them who may have either a high cost or low quality (cyberpower), give them Enthusiest quality at the cost of a newegg (for example) built PC.

just use 2 pieces of cardboard stuck on both side of the heatsink to the air doesnt "escape" from the side.

just the 2 side of the heatsink.

nope! all those links dont open.you got msn?

Try that!

If that works, you can tank google! BTW, try out Chrome, I love it.

i havent got round to Chrome yet.what it has to be better then firefox?

im waiting google to come out so i can get a reduced price iPhone.haha

but im looking at the http://www.htc.com/www/product.aspx?id=49518

this is the man!style combine with powerful processor.

i was joking about the iPhone.its the worse functioning phone ever!lookwise its immaculate!i slap my gf few time when she got the iphone!LOL

i prefer full qwerty keyboard now since i type very fast with 2 fingers on those mobile qwerty. i have a HTC TyTn now i skip the Tytn 2 for this beast!surely will be expensive though! the interface is much animated like the apple and andrioid too. plus it will be easy to crack since its base on windows.

I got my 8gigs today and I put one of the fans in. Where do I got to check the CPu Temp, I'm on Windows Vista x64 8800gtx, etc..

Hi Trunkz_Jr,

You might have a look at this very thorough temp guide. It will also help with calibrating Speed Fan including the 50C flame.
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/ [...] ture-guide

You have a different processor than I did, so that can explain why you have different results. I have a hot running Q6600 B3, not G0 stepping.


I am glad to hear that you got decent temp drops!

init!LOL

but OP dont seem to respond either!

ahahahaha trunkz diagram really cracks me up i made it my msn dp

so how much should we demand?

that is a bad picture of him!lol
this is better!!!HAHA

XD!

I don’t remember which thread I was in, but the idea about push/pull in the opposing directions was brought up. Some thought it was dumb, but others (including me) thought that it may be interesting to look at. I can see it being good to pull in air from the sides only because it would pull "cool" air over the heat pipes. But the issue is removing the air that exits the fan that dumps toward the front of the case.