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Should I change my rad placement from top exhaust to front intake? Enthoo Pro M TG

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I have the Phanteks Enthoo Pro M TG case which is great. In it I have the 2700x cooled with Kraken x62, Strix 1080Ti and the C6H motherboard. I currently have the radiator configured as top exhaust.

The CPU is overclocked to 4.1 and is stable at 1.268 volts. If I want to go few increments higher I need much higher voltages and I don't think it's worth it. Temps are decent, currently I'm getting around mid 30s for regular use with spikes up to the 40s. AIDA64 stress test has the CPU at mid 50s but if I Stress FPU it rises to mid 70s. Gaming temps however kinda depends on the game such as GTA is in the mid 50s but BF1 spikes way up to the 70s.

I used to have the radiator in push pull front intake with two top exhausts and one back exhausts. I changed it to top exhaust with two intake fans at the front to blow fresh air directly onto the GPU area of the motherboard and GPU temps are as a result, great. But I know the general consensus is that it's better to have positive pressure than negative (which is what I have now) and I wonder if I'll get overall better temps with the rad as front intake in push pull config?

I don't think I'll be getting much better temps on an overclock since the voltage required to get above 4.175 is much higher than I'm OK with.

 

Does anyone have this case in a similar setup?

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I myself would use the top as intakes, the exhaust fan should suck away the warm air before it reaches the graphics card

CPU: i7-2600K 4751MHz 1.44V (software) --> 1.47V at the back of the socket Motherboard: Asrock Z77 Extreme4 (BCLK: 103.3MHz) CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D15 RAM: Adata XPG 2x8GB DDR3 (XMP: 2133MHz 10-11-11-30 CR2, custom: 2203MHz 10-11-10-26 CR1 tRFC:230 tREFI:14000) GPU: Asus GTX 1070 Dual (Super Jetstream vbios, +70(2025-2088MHz)/+400(8.8Gbps)) SSD: Samsung 840 Pro 256GB (main boot drive), Transcend SSD370 128GB PSU: Seasonic X-660 80+ Gold Case: Antec P110 Silent, 5 intakes 1 exhaust Monitor: AOC G2460PF 1080p 144Hz (150Hz max w/ DP, 121Hz max w/ HDMI) TN panel Keyboard: Logitech G610 Orion (Cherry MX Blue) with SteelSeries Apex M260 keycaps Mouse: BenQ Zowie FK1

 

Model: HP Omen 17 17-an110ca CPU: i7-8750H (0.125V core & cache, 50mV SA undervolt) GPU: GTX 1060 6GB Mobile (+80/+450, 1650MHz~1750MHz 0.78V~0.85V) RAM: 8+8GB DDR4-2400 18-17-17-39 2T Storage: HP EX920 1TB PCIe x4 M.2 SSD + Crucial MX500 1TB 2.5" SATA SSD, 128GB Toshiba PCIe x2 M.2 SSD (KBG30ZMV128G) gone cooking externally, 1TB Seagate 7200RPM 2.5" HDD (ST1000LM049-2GH172) left outside Monitor: 1080p 126Hz IPS G-sync

 

Desktop benching:

Cinebench R15 Single thread:168 Multi-thread: 833 

SuperPi (v1.5 from Techpowerup, PI value output) 16K: 0.100s 1M: 8.255s 32M: 7m 45.93s

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31 minutes ago, Jurrunio said:

I myself would use the top as intakes, the exhaust fan should suck away the warm air before it reaches the graphics card

You mean top radiator intake?

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3 hours ago, akb8812 said:

You mean top radiator intake?

yes

CPU: i7-2600K 4751MHz 1.44V (software) --> 1.47V at the back of the socket Motherboard: Asrock Z77 Extreme4 (BCLK: 103.3MHz) CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D15 RAM: Adata XPG 2x8GB DDR3 (XMP: 2133MHz 10-11-11-30 CR2, custom: 2203MHz 10-11-10-26 CR1 tRFC:230 tREFI:14000) GPU: Asus GTX 1070 Dual (Super Jetstream vbios, +70(2025-2088MHz)/+400(8.8Gbps)) SSD: Samsung 840 Pro 256GB (main boot drive), Transcend SSD370 128GB PSU: Seasonic X-660 80+ Gold Case: Antec P110 Silent, 5 intakes 1 exhaust Monitor: AOC G2460PF 1080p 144Hz (150Hz max w/ DP, 121Hz max w/ HDMI) TN panel Keyboard: Logitech G610 Orion (Cherry MX Blue) with SteelSeries Apex M260 keycaps Mouse: BenQ Zowie FK1

 

Model: HP Omen 17 17-an110ca CPU: i7-8750H (0.125V core & cache, 50mV SA undervolt) GPU: GTX 1060 6GB Mobile (+80/+450, 1650MHz~1750MHz 0.78V~0.85V) RAM: 8+8GB DDR4-2400 18-17-17-39 2T Storage: HP EX920 1TB PCIe x4 M.2 SSD + Crucial MX500 1TB 2.5" SATA SSD, 128GB Toshiba PCIe x2 M.2 SSD (KBG30ZMV128G) gone cooking externally, 1TB Seagate 7200RPM 2.5" HDD (ST1000LM049-2GH172) left outside Monitor: 1080p 126Hz IPS G-sync

 

Desktop benching:

Cinebench R15 Single thread:168 Multi-thread: 833 

SuperPi (v1.5 from Techpowerup, PI value output) 16K: 0.100s 1M: 8.255s 32M: 7m 45.93s

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41 minutes ago, Jurrunio said:

yes

I'll try that tomorrow. Never seen top intake being recommended before.

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front if you respect the laws of physics

 

top intake if you don't

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Basically my question is. Is it worth the trouble to disconnect the cooler and take it all out and put at the front, which is a bit of a work to line it up.

Also, wouldn't the gpu get less airflow with a radiator at the front ?

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