CPU Tower heatsink question.

[cyberarmy]

I have got my ASUS Triton 70 today and installed it on my CPU. My question is: what's the most efficient way of position the heatsink, blow to north bridge? Back of PC?

My current chassis has 1 12cm intake fan in front of the HD bays, one 8CM intake on the side panel direct on top of CPU heatsink, 1 12CM exhaust fan below the PSU and dual 8cm fan (front and back) on the PSU.

I installed my heatsink so it's blowing towards the exhaust fan to increase air circulation. And the 8cm is blowing on top of heatsink. But now the North bridge is not covered although it has huge heatsink. System temp 42, CPU 25 and CPU fan PWN controlled so spinning like 4xx RPM. Should I just leave it like this? I think change the direction to blow the NB will be stupid cause it will mess up the wind tunnels or whatever it's called.

 

[cyberarmy]

My Raidmax Sagitta's side acrylic panel can be removed by unscrewing all the screws.

This morning I had a looked at the side panel, decide to flip the acrylic panel around, so now the center of the side intake fan is position align to the GFX card, half of the fan is blowing cool air on the NB and the other half to GFX. What a perfect combination with the flip of the panel, now both the NB and GFX are running much cooler. Now environment temp from MB reading is only 10c above CPU temp, before the flip it's 20+ difference.

Now I am very happy

 

[nocilah]

My Raidmax Sagitta's side acrylic panel can be removed by unscrewing all the screws.

This morning I had a looked at the side panel, decide to flip the acrylic panel around, so now the center of the side intake fan is position align to the GFX card, half of the fan is blowing cool air on the NB and the other half to GFX. What a perfect combination with the flip of the panel, now both the NB and GFX are running much cooler. Now environment temp from MB reading is only 10c above CPU temp, before the flip it's 20+ difference.

Now I am very happy

i have the same case and sounds like a great plan!