dumb installation question, fan down?

[soulie]

Been a while since installed a psu and well my intuition/ego tells me to not ask such a dumb question but anyway.

In a standard ATX case with the powersuply mounting place topside , you install the powersuply with its fan pointing to the inside of the case?

other way around doesn't really make sense to me , but hey the manual installation step are like 1, remove old 2 ,install , 3 screw it in place with no pictures .

So just to be sure.

update : crap wrong subforum (should be in powersuplly section i guess) ,

[idale]

Find the power plug, put that towards the hole in the back of the case, make sure the interior-side opening of the PSU isn't blocked (most likely it'll be a fan and most likely it'll be on the "bottom"), and install that way. (So under what seem like "usual" circumstances these days, yes the fan will be on the inside pointing downward.)

[xan_user]

as long as there is 5/8" or so clearance it should be fine fan up or down.

having it on the bottom can move more air through a 'passive' tower cpu hs, minimizing the need for additional cpu fans... having it on the top can combat stagnant hot air that might be in the very top of a case.