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Originally Posted by AdamB

i have a med. tower xigmatek asgard

Like this one?


This one has a fan exactly where it should be. THIS fan should be blowing air OUT of your case. This way any heat produced by your CPU fan will be quickly taken out of the case (and fresh air will be sucked in from the bottom).

Originally Posted by AdamB

to test for airflow i saw that detaching the side of the case and blowing a fan into the inside should tell me if is airflow rather than the cpu heating up, is this true or will it damage my components, like static with dust and all that crap.

#1. No risk of damaging components

#2. It will not tell you anything.
It is very very rare that a CPU-fan is insufficient for the CPU (unless it is damaged from long usage or badly connected onto the CPU).

Depending on your motherboard, you may look at the temperature information (motherboard temp).

There is also another check to do: Look how warm the air is that is getting out of your power supply. If it is too hot then you know you need to add fans to extract more air.

You have an i7
The stock fan from Intel is on the low side. Just about to keep the temperatures to a level, provided you did not overclock your CPU.
IF you have overclocked it then the Intel stock CPU cooler is not enough, you need something better.

It also depends on your GPU (the other major "heater" inside your case. Which model do you have and what kin of GPU fan does it have? Does it throw all the warm air outside of the case like this:


or does it throw part of the hot air out of the case and part inside the case like this:


If you have the second, then you have a lot of warm air inside your case (CPU fan, GPU fan, hard disk) and too little air getting out of the case (in order to get fresh air in).


So, an new CPU fan will only part of the job, you need to ensure that the case-fans are doing their job as well.


~S~