Airflow Configuration in Lian Li O11 Dynamic

[GeorgeDouj88]

I'm gonna be ripping out all my watercooling and moving my PC into another case for air cooling and I want some suggestions for airflow config. I'm going to be using the Lian Li O11 Dynamic and I know that I'm definitely going to have 3 intake on the bottom and 3 exhaust on the top, but I'm not sure about the side setup. So at first I was going to have a 360 AIO on the side and pull intake but I realized that my LL120 fans will be facing away which I don't want because the fans in that position are the most visible. Instead I'm deciding to do AIO and push exhaust on the side so that I could still have the AIO on the side and show the nice side of the fans. In THIS part of HardwareCanucks' "9 fans in O11 Dynamic" video, the difference between using exhaust and intake for the side AIO isn't much of a difference so I think this will be okay. Also, since the bottom fans of the case will be blowing straight into the GPU, would it be a smart decision to vertical mount the GPU so that the air could get past?

Basically I want to know if my fan config idea is a good setup, and if vertical mounting would be a good idea here.

 

All help is much appreciated :).

[GeorgeDouj88]

@dalekphalm @HOOTSMON

Could you guys help me out with this

[OldHunter]

Can't speak for your specifics because of the AIO.   I get the best cooling with side exhaust, top rear intake 140mm, top front exhaust 2x120mm, and no bottom fans.  Cpu cooler is a Wraith Prism on a 3700x.  Bottom fans added temp to both cpu and gpu.

[GeorgeDouj88]

7 hours ago, OldHunter said:

Can't speak for your specifics because of the AIO.   I get the best cooling with side exhaust, top rear intake 140mm, top front exhaust 2x120mm, and no bottom fans.  Cpu cooler is a Wraith Prism on a 3700x.  Bottom fans added temp to both cpu and gpu.

do you think a vertical GPU mount would be a good idea

[OldHunter]

I thought that vertical mount was more for looks than anything.  I think with an AIO I would start with the AIO up top with the fans intaking. And set the side to exhaust.  This in theory should get airflow over the GPU and motherboard.  A bit of experimentation will probably be needed to optimise...

[HOOTSMON]

you air cooling gpu?

[GeorgeDouj88]

On 11/14/2019 at 6:03 PM, HOOTSMON said:

you air cooling gpu?

yup

[thosebones]

Ever think about getting the ql fans look almost same from front or back,used these in my build with ql's top exhaust,ql's bottom intake and just used my left over ml pros on side intake with rad on back side with another pair of push fans since left dust covers in place,also custom fabricated mt own riser so high enough could put another rad in bottom

[thosebones]

Drilled holes to mount them