Hi
I did some crude tests on the orientation of my Thermalright XP-120 heatsink (fitted with Sunon 100cfm fan) on my Asus P5WD2 Premium motherboard with Intel 820D cpu.
I fitted the heatsink, and rotated the case to various orientations to see what the effect was on cpu/system temps. After each rotation I turned down the cpu fan speed (using a Zalman fanmate) to make the cpu very hot, then turned the fan speed back to full to see what the temp would go down to.
My case is a full tower so the motherboard is mounted vertically.
I used the temps displayed in the bios. All temps are in Celsius.
The results were:
XP-120 (mounted vertical with curved section of heatpipes facing upwards) cpu:63 system:43
XP-120 (mounted vertical with curved section of heatpipes facing downwards) cpu:62 system:43
XP-120 (mounted vertical with curved section of heatpipes facing sideways) cpu:62 system:43
XP-120 (mounted horizontal as it would be in a non-tower case) cpu:62 system:43
In other words, all orientations appear to be equal apart from having the curved section of the heatpipes facing upwards which is only 1 degree worse (and may just be an error on my part)
Then I took the side of the case, and temps dropped to: cpu:55 system 40
Time to do some work on getting more airflow thru my case.
Hope that helps someone.
John
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