fan direction MAMBA MONSTER

[snellemin]

Originally Posted by BrianG

It really depends. If the heatsink is in a duct, pulling air across it can be equal or more effective than shoving air into it. When you blow into a heatsink, you get turbulence before it goes elsewhere. The idea is to get a flow of air across the fins. Of course, the exhaust method requires some type of duct to work effectively.

We do it both ways here at work depending on the chassis design of the PC's. Like Brian said, Ducts are involved either way for max cooling efficiency. With the ducts you can run the fan at a lower rpm and still have sufficient cooling. Another benefit is lower fan noise. But who really cares about that in a RCAnyways, without a duct you always want to blow the air towards the heatsink.