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By default, the heatsink offsets toward the rear horizontally. If I were to reverse this offset orientation towards the the front of the case so I can use another 140mm fan on it, will it hurt performance?
 
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Originally Posted by crpcookie View Post

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By default, the heatsink offsets toward the rear horizontally. If I were to reverse this offset orientation towards the the front of the case so I can use another 140mm fan on it, will it hurt performance?
Probably not, but it I doubt it will help performance either .. and probably look strange too.
 
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Probably not, but it I doubt it will help performance either .. and probably look strange too.
Do you think 2x ty147 fans won't make much difference compared to a single on the macho? I know they sell an x2, but those have the ty142 (800rpm). When I last used the macho, I went with revB instead of x2.

The x2 seems to do close to the macho revB in the reviews that I have seen, so I would assume there would be a degree or two drop with an extra 147.

I don't think there is any harm trying an additional fan, but the rear case exhaust fan should move equal or more air to the ty147, or be removed.
 
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Do you think 2x ty147 fans won't make much difference compared to a single on the macho? I know they sell an x2, but those have the ty142 (800rpm). When I last used the macho, I went with revB instead of x2.

The x2 seems to do close to the macho revB in the reviews that I have seen, so I would assume there would be a degree or two drop with an extra 147.

I don't think there is any harm trying an additional fan, but the rear case exhaust fan should move equal or more air to the ty147, or be removed.
I don't think it will make much if any difference.
Stacking fans does not increase airflow volume, only pressure rating .. and while this increases airflow if what air is flowing through is restrictive the higher pressure rating of stacked fans will increase airflow. But Macho has quite low resistance so having additional pressure rating does not make any (well maybe a little like 0.5c) difference.
 
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yeah, it would look, well, offset
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Yeah it would look upset.
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I did it anyways and temp dropped by 1-2c. Noise level improved since the Thermalright 140mm fan is much better than the annoying 120mm Corsair rear fan.
I'm betting the temperature drop was because you now have a exhaust fan (even though it's mounted on cooler) that is moving a lot more air out of case.

Did you remove all PCIe back slot covers? If you haven't, give it a try. With good intake fans this usually give lower temps because it give case better front to back airflow around GPU, so GPU's heated air move back and out of case faster instead of mixing with cool air going to GPU fans.
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