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Soo ive got a little bit of a question since im going full watercooling now, which way is the best way to blow air through radiator? front to back or back to front?  

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depends on the overall layout and the case's location. I tend to put the exhaust side near a wall and leave the intake open to free room, unless I need a heater.

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Use static pressure fans, not airflow ones. Get the Corsair sp120 series fans. They are a bit whooshy at full speed but good

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The Corsair ML120s also work pretty damn good for rads, I have a few for intake fans on some of my systems, but also for pushing through rads for exhaust at top of case.

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I have 4 Arctic p12 PWM fans on a 240mm rad and it cools both my gpu and cpu, gpu at 40 degrees running unigine heaven and the cpu at 70 degrees running p95 small fft stress test after 10 minutes.

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1 hour ago, DataFawks said:

front to back or back to front? 

I assume you mean push vs pull, in which case it's irrelevant for temperatures. However, it's easier to blow out dust with a pull setup.

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3 hours ago, DataFawks said:

Soo ive got a little bit of a question since im going full watercooling now, which way is the best way to blow air through radiator? front to back or back to front? 

Thermally, it doesn't matter if the fans are pushing air through or pulling it. Just go with whatever you think looks best aesthetically, other than that it's the standard fan mounting rules: in through bottom/front of the case, out through back/top. Go for neutral or positive pressure, negative sucks dust in through all of the case cracks.

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3 hours ago, MojangYang said:

Use static pressure fans, not airflow ones. Get the Corsair sp120 series fans. They are a bit whooshy at full speed but good

i dont mind them being "whooshy" will get these for sure! thanks for the help!  

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ML120's are better rad fans than SP120's.

 

That being said. Be Quiet! Silent Wings 3's all day every day.

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Id rather have them pulling through the rad with a filter in front,So cleaning later is a lot easier.What rads are you doing to use?

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On 5/17/2019 at 1:12 PM, Ic3d said:

I have 4 Arctic p12 PWM fans on a 240mm rad and it cools both my gpu and cpu, gpu at 40 degrees running unigine heaven and the cpu at 70 degrees running p95 small fft stress test after 10 minutes.

can confirm that the arctic p series fans are pretty much underrated. they offer a great performance / price ratio imo.

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