Mean it 5pm Case

Baiter · December 31, 2019

I am currently building my new rig and picked up the Mean It 5pm Case. I picked up the Corsair H100i platinum RGB liquid cooler as well as 3 other fans 120mm each. So I was wondering if people who have the case if you mounted the liquid cooler on top or in front and wat kind of set up do u have: either push-pull or pull-push. Also any suggestions are welcome thank you

alyen · January 1, 2020

1) I believe fans pushing air onto the radiator is usually most effective. For the case you chosen maybe try mounting the fan on the front pushing air onto the radiator.

2) The results may not be good with the glass on the front making the fans work harder to pull in the air from a 90 degree angle so you may need to mount it on top of the case with it also acting as air intake. You would still need front fans as intake for the video card.

Rear fan would be exhaust in both setups.

TVwazhere · January 2, 2020

On 12/31/2019 at 6:52 PM, Baiter said:

wat kind of set up do u have: either push-pull or pull-push.

The direction you move air through the radiator does not matter. There is a negligible difference in temperatures, and this has been show time and time again. You can get increased performance by mounting fans on both sides of the radiators, but you might start running into clearance issues depending on the GPU if you're front mounting the rad, or RAM/motherboard VRM heatsinks on the top.