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Thanks! I was actually about to post about forgetting option 4, which was exactly what you mentioned. It's definitely a logical choice (what with the whole "hot air rises" thing), but I've seen some forum posts elsewhere, with people not reporting improved temperatures with that heatsink fan orientation in other cases, for whatever reason. For this case (assuming I end up keeping it), I can't think of a more "logical" orientation, though.I can definitely spare an extra $10 on a heatsink but didn't know about the 207-XT. I just didn't want to spend 3x the price of the Thermalrights on a Noctua cooler for an improvement of ~3 degrees or something. I'm also open to experimenting with fan orientations after buying a heatsink, so the biggest question was really just whether to get a tower or a top-down cooler.
Thanks! I was actually about to post about forgetting option 4, which was exactly what you mentioned. It's definitely a logical choice (what with the whole "hot air rises" thing), but I've seen some forum posts elsewhere, with people not reporting improved temperatures with that heatsink fan orientation in other cases, for whatever reason. For this case (assuming I end up keeping it), I can't think of a more "logical" orientation, though.
I can definitely spare an extra $10 on a heatsink but didn't know about the 207-XT. I just didn't want to spend 3x the price of the Thermalrights on a Noctua cooler for an improvement of ~3 degrees or something.
I'm also open to experimenting with fan orientations after buying a heatsink, so the biggest question was really just whether to get a tower or a top-down cooler.
