Which way does my CPU fan go?

[EagleEye319]

Hello. At the end of summer I will be buying a pc. In it it will have a cooler master hyper 212 led. The case is the cooler master masterbox lite 5 and I will mount 1 fan in the front around the middle~ish and of course The rear fan. Which way should I mount my CPU cooler. Please show related pics. Thank you!

[iRileyx]

Like this. 

 

 

Air comes in the front of case > pushed through heatsink > out the back of case

[Mooshi]

Standard front to back orientation.

 

[Billy_Mays]

Any orientation you like but make sure you have air flow going through it no matter what (you only really have two options to get better temps is by doing what @RKRiley has posted or the fan on the other direction/otherside)

[EagleEye319]

The case front is not permeable. The fan is for asthetics and just moving air around, so in short, there is no air being drawn from the front, however I do not know for sure. I don't have the case but it seems completely solid

[EagleEye319]

Okay, I have it figured out now. Thank you all so much

[iRileyx]

9 minutes ago, EagleEye319 said:

The case front is not permeable. The fan is for asthetics and just moving air around, so in short, there is no air being drawn from the front, however I do not know for sure. I don't have the case but it seems completely solid

The front air intake is on the bottom of the front panel. It's not very big though so there won't be a whole lot of air flow, especially if you only plan on the one fan at the front.