Cooler Master Hyper TX3 Evo fan direction confusion

[craga2012]

Hello

This had probably been asked a thousand times, but i am really confused about how the heat sink and fan should be positioned on the Cooler Master Hyper TX3 Evo. I have not purchased it yet, but I am planning to and wish to know how it would fit.

I have the Asus m5a97 r.2 MB. Two 120mm side intake fans, one 120mm front intake and one 120mm rear exhaust fan.

My question is, should the fan on the heat sink be placed so that it is on the left of the sink, closer to the exhaust fan blowing outwards out of the exhaust fan, on the right of the sink near the RAM still blowing towards the exhaust, or, with the fan pointing down towards the GPU like in most images i've seen?

Any help greatly appreciated

 

[houldendub]

Best way to have it, is so that it's blowing air towards the back of the case, exhausting the heat. If you don't know which way the fan blows, simply look on the black plastic shell of the fan and there should be an arrow saying which way it blows.

The best setup would be to have one fan pulling the air backwards with a second fan pushing it backwards (so both are pushing air toward the back of the case).

RAM doesn't need that much cooling, if at all, the front case fans should take care of any heat coming from the storage drives and RAM anyway.

 

[rehed21]

With only one CPU fan - on the right of the sink near the RAM still blowing towards the exhaust.

 

[craga2012]

Thank you both for your answers

May I ask why the one fan should be by the ram blowing towards the exhaust, as opposed to having it on the left blowing towards exhaust?

Just curious

 

[houldendub]

Thank you both for your answers

May I ask why the one fan should be by the ram blowing towards the exhaust, as opposed to having it on the left blowing towards exhaust?

Just curious

Putting it on the RAM side will allow the fan to push cool air over the cooler, and in the process both cool down the heat sink and push the hot air out the back. Having a single fan pulling air from the other side won't pull as much cool air from the RAM side of the heat sink, and will really only pull the heat from the heat sink out backwards, only introducing a small amount of cold air.