Front or top mount?

[charbel1011]

So i just bought corsair 570x with h115i pro and it turned out i cannot mount it at the top so i had to mount it to the front. Am i gonna deal with heat problems? Like seriously i have no choice. Will my gpu gets more heat? I usually gets 71c with my gpu playing games. Will i generate more heat this way? I have the fan setup like that in the picture?

[Dorinfilip]

1 hour ago, charbel1011 said:

So i just bought corsair 570x with h115i pro and it turned out i cannot mount it at the top so i had to mount it to the front. Am i gonna deal with heat problems? Like seriously i have no choice. Will my gpu gets more heat? I usually gets 71c with my gpu playing games. Will i generate more heat this way? I have the fan setup like that in the picture?

Its fine 

[charbel1011]

9 minutes ago, Dorinfilip said:

Its fine 

Why they top is better? And some people told me my gpu temps gonna be much worse!

[0mniscient]

You shouldn't notice any higher temperatures doing it this way. In fact, you might find it cooler at the front assuming that if you had it on the top, you'd have it in a configuration where it pulls air from the outside of the case and then your rear fain exhausts it straight away, choking the gpu completely. Two things I must add though is that in your pictures, it looks like one of your tubes has a kink which could be affecting thermals, see if you can get rid of the kink to allow more liquid to freely flow through. Also, the pumps in most AIO's work better when they are oriented with the tubes coming out of the bottom so if you can flip the radiator around so the tubes are at the bottom in your case, try it out and see if it improves temps. It shouldn't affect your gpu too much unless you've got some serious overclock. You may notice a few degrees hotter on the gpu but nothing that will cause it to thermal throttle.

[aezakmi]

2 minutes ago, charbel1011 said:

Why they top is better? And some people told me my gpu temps gonna be much worse!

who told you that? I mean it sounds like a dumb joke but knowing users it probably wasn't.

 

in every possible scenario a front mounted radiator will get you the lowest temps, why? simple, it has a fresh air intake from the outside of the case, in a push/pull config like yours half of the warm air will get sucked by the graphics card fans and directed to the back of the case and outside, the remaining (from the top rad fan) will be removed by the rear or top case exhaust

 

vs the dumb top mounting which consists in blowing fresh air into the case only to get it warm and direct it right into the radiator so the coolant gets warm instead of well, COOL, the word says it ffs, oh but they like top mounting because It LoOKs BetTaHHH!!!!!

 

[0mniscient]

can you tell us what overclock you have btw. that way we might more easily be able to tell if the temps are too high.

[charbel1011]

16 minutes ago, 0mniscient said:

can you tell us what overclock you have btw. that way we might more easily be able to tell if the temps are too high.

That's actually my real setup though. The other picture is a setup i saw on the internet.

[Jurrunio]

29 minutes ago, aezakmi said:

who told you that? I mean it sounds like a dumb joke but knowing users it probably wasn't.

 

in every possible scenario a front mounted radiator will get you the lowest temps, why? simple, it has a fresh air intake from the outside of the case, in a push/pull config like yours half of the warm air will get sucked by the graphics card fans and directed to the back of the case and outside, the remaining (from the top rad fan) will be removed by the rear or top case exhaust

 

vs the dumb top mounting which consists in blowing fresh air into the case only to get it warm and direct it right into the radiator so the coolant gets warm instead of well, COOL, the word says it ffs, oh but they like top mounting because It LoOKs BetTaHHH!!!!!

 

then what about top mounted radiator that's pulling in air from outside? Just suck those warm air out with the exhaust fan next to the I/O shield of the motherboard. Blowing the graphics card with warm air in a front radiator intake scenario doesnt sound good either.

[charbel1011]

12 minutes ago, Jurrunio said:

then what about top mounted radiator that's pulling in air from outside? Just suck those warm air out with the exhaust fan next to the I/O shield of the motherboard. Blowing the graphics card with warm air in a front radiator intake scenario doesnt sound good either.

So im screwed?

[Jurrunio]

6 minutes ago, charbel1011 said:

So im screwed?

usually the extra temperature is not enough to be a concern (and 71C isn't). If you have doubts or want to do better, add an exhaust fan below the graphics card pushing air out through the PCIe slots.

[charbel1011]

Just now, Jurrunio said:

usually the extra temperature is not enough to be a concern. If you have doubts, add an exhaust fan below the graphics card pushing air out through the PCIe slots.

Usually if u mount it to the top you cpu suffers from a little bit of high temp. And if you mount it at the front your cpu temp is cool but your gpu sufferes from high temp. So im guessing the temp is not that concering? Because on my old setup i had the same radiator mounted to the top. And my cpu temps while gaming were amaxing 60c-70c maximum.

[Tristerin]

This will net you the lowest CPU temps - it will not net you the lowest temps INSIDE the case.  However the way it looks, you have a single 120mm breathing fresh cool air at the bottom as intake still.  That will take care of the GPU.  

[charbel1011]

4 minutes ago, Tristerin said:

This will net you the lowest CPU temps - it will not net you the lowest temps INSIDE the case.  However the way it looks, you have a single 120mm breathing fresh cool air at the bottom as intake still.  That will take care of the GPU.  

Oh lol no that's not my

setup like i said it was similar thats why i picked it. That's my setup i can't fit any fans at the bottom

[Tristerin]

1 minute ago, charbel1011 said:

Oh lol no that's not my

setup like i said it was similar thats why i picked it. That's my setup i can't fit any fans at the bottom

 

Still will be okay, as long as temps stay in healthy region "wrong" is supremely subjective.

[aezakmi]

1 hour ago, Jurrunio said:

then what about top mounted radiator that's pulling in air from outside? Just suck those warm air out with the exhaust fan next to the I/O shield of the motherboard. Blowing the graphics card with warm air in a front radiator intake scenario doesnt sound good either.

yeah but it won't be pulling air at 90C

nothing will happen to the graphics card

 

I use the same config as OP but with two toasters cards and max temp the top card has reached was 75C when playing Hitman2