Hyper 212 EVO in a thorV2 - airflow

[Abe2512]

I plan on installing a Coolemaster Hyper 212 EVO on my i5 4690 CPU in a Rosewill thor V2 case; the case has two exhaust fans near the CPU area, one pushing air out the top and one pushing out the back.

For optimal cooling and airflow, which way should I set the fan on the Hyper 212 evo's heatsink?

(ie, place the heatsink horizontally on the CPU and place the fan at the bottom so that air is being pushed out the top exhaust or place the heatsink vertically on the CPU so that the fan is pushing air out the back exhaust)

 

[rolli59]

Place it so it blows towards the back fan. Other way around it will be sucking hot air from the GPU instead of cool air from the front.

 

[Onus]

With a locked CPU, you do not need the Hyper EVO at all. If you'll be working your CPU hard, even a 92mm cooler will be more than enough to cool it better than stock. Otherwise, there are many 120mm tower-style coolers, at least one of which can almost always be found for less than the cost of the Hyper EVO; even their own Hyper 212+ qualifies.
In any case, I would direct the flow from the cooler toward the VRMs of your motherboard.

 

[Abe2512]

Forgot to include my specs!
Chassis: Rosewill thor v2
CPU: intel i5 4690
CPU cooler: CM Hyper 212 EVO
Motherboard: Asus Z97A
Power supply: EVGA 850G2 850W
GPU: MSI Geforce GTX 780ti Gaming OC 3GB
Memory: Gskill Ripjaws X series 8GB (2x4GB) @ 1600Mhz
Primary Storage 1: Crucial MX-100 256GB SSD
Primary Storage 2: 1 TB WD Black 7200RPM HDD

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

 

[Abe2512]

Thanks for the responses! I'm going to go with installing the fan so that it blows hot air from the heatsink out of the case's rear exhaust fan.