@onf Having them pointed towards the motherboard is intentional. It's to help cool the VRMs (voltage regulation modules) as well as help make it lower profile. Tower coolers can cool more effectively but don't force air over the VRMs, and take up more space.

If the CPU cooler doesn't cool the VRMs directly, having more case airflow can make up for that, but if the computer was built on the cheap, it's easier to have a low profile cooler and one or two case fans to circulate air.

@onf that is weird.

@onf front-to-back passive coolers are definitely a thing, just usually on servers. Having it on a home PC is weird.

Also, what's the PC build for?