Fan direction in AIO

[Coolday]

Hi

 

I see some people on youtube putting fan backs to the radiator and others putting the fan front on the radiator ! which is correct or better ?

[Mad153]

That's a long debate unfortunately.

depends what you want: dust or temperature performance

[Coolday]

36 minutes ago, Mad153 said:

That's a long debate unfortunately.

depends what you want: dust or temperature performance

temperature of course I have 70C in gaming 

[Coolday]

26 minutes ago, youngboy said:

At the end, the performance difference between then is so little, it doesn't really matter. It is an ongoing debate, but the performance difference is so little, it doesn't really matter. Now doing push AND pull will perform a lot better than just one, but that's expensive, so in either push or pull, the performance difference is so little, dont even care.If your case has good cooling, do pull, but if not, then go push. 

I have raidmax zeta case , 1 fan at the back, 1 fan in front for HDDs and 2 fans on the cpu radiator, top position. Currently the back is on the radiator so I am doing push ?

[Coolday]

Thanks guys. Out of curiosity I will flip the fans and test the temps 

[SolarNova]

2 hours ago, Coolday said:

Hi

 

I see some people on youtube putting fan backs to the radiator and others putting the fan front on the radiator ! which is correct or better ?

Both are correct.

Having fans in 'pull' config makes it easier to clean as dust builds up on the exposed side of the rad.

But some prefer the aesthetic of them in 'push' config so u can see the fans (and RGB if they have it)

[00RaZoR11]

11 hours ago, Coolday said:

Hi

 

I see some people on youtube putting fan backs to the radiator and others putting the fan front on the radiator ! which is correct or better ?

in my experience a pull config is more noisy. The other difference is aesthetics, you can decide what you wanna see, the fans or the rad. Some people (like linus) use pull configs to make the radiator's front more accessible for cleaning. 

I'm not sure about this one, but based off how much gn steve complains about it, I assume using round-framed fans in pull is more effective cause they have pressure leaks around the corners. That would be eliminated in pull. Though it's probably only a few degrees of difference