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Old 10-06-2006, 09:30 PM
kony
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Default Re: turbulent flow not bad for cooling

On Thu, 5 Oct 2006 23:10:03 -0700, "Timothy Daniels"
<TDaniels@NoSpamDot.com> wrote:

>Here are more examples of and advice regarding
>turbulence and forced draft cooling:
>
> http://www.overclockers.com/tips90/ -
>
> "Turbulent air cools better. Say, for sake of argument,
> you have a simple tube with a fan in the middle. The fan pulls
> air from one side of the tube, and blows into the other. If you
> have a hot component on the exhaust side of the fan, it will
> be more efficiently cooled than on the intake side.



Say for example, that you have a computer system, not a
dissimilar situation, and instead of having a reduced flow
rate from the component no matter which side it's on, you
have a higher flow rate until you try to test your idea.

Oops, you never did test your idea.

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