Thinking of moving my AIO radiator to the front of case, any suggestions?

[paraclese]

I have the Asus ROG Helios case, it comes with 3 front mounted 140 mm fans and one 140 mm rear mounted exhaust fan. I have a ROG Ryujin 240 CPU cooler, it has 2 120 mm fans and a radiator. When I first setup my PC, I mounted the CPU cooler radiator to the top as exhaust. I'm thinking about moving the CPU cooler radiator to the front as intake. This would allow me to move two of the 140 mm fans to the top, should I keep the bottom mounted 140 mm fan as intake? When playing the Outer Worlds, the CPU temp can vary between 30 degrees and 50 degrees Celsius. I also have the option of just buying a 120 mm fan to add as an exhaust fan to the top, which would be the easiest.

 

 

I'm just trying to optimize airflow in my case. This is my first computer build, I was worried that I bit off a little more than i can chew. I will also be mounting my video card vertically once I'm comfortable with the airflow of the case. I appreciate all recommendations and thank you for your time.

 

I included some pics of my setup. And the specs are:

Asus ROG Helios pc case

Intel i9-9900KS

Maximus XI Formula Motherboard 

ROG Ryujin 240 CPU cooler

ROG Strix 750w PSU

4x DDR4 3200MHz 8GB

WD_Black 1TB NVME M.2 SSD SN750

ROG Strix Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080ti 11GB OC

[Statik]

That’s one hell of a rig for your first build.

 

why do you you want to change it? Your temps are beyond fine? Just have as many intakes as you have exhaust. 
 

or be like me and have enough negative pressure to blow the case apart (6 intake 2 Exhaust)

 

EDIT: you also have a cable management port right above your CPU power for a much cleaner look

 

EDIT2: same for like all your cables 

[Tilaron]

Those are pretty good temps, having the rad as an intake might get you around 5c lower, give or take, so it's really a question of aesthetics at this point and whether you want those few extra degrees of headroom should you decide to overclock at all (assuming you haven't already). Nice build!

 

2 minutes ago, Statik said:

or be like me and have enough negative pressure to blow the case apart (6 intake 2 Exhaust)

That's positive pressure!

[Statik]

Just now, Tilaron said:

 

That's positive pressure!

Me English, no bueno. 

[PV2smokes]

Someone correct me if im wrong, but does a 2080 Ti require 2 8 pin cables? 

[paraclese]

I'm under the impression that the CPU is more temp sensitive than the GPU. And having the CPU cooler mounted to the front of the case would help keep the CPU cooler than having it mounted to the top as exhaust.

[paraclese]

Thank everyone for the responses, I know my cable management needs a little help. I do see what you mentioned, I will be moving those cables tonight. I am always wiling to learn, thanks for the pointer.

[Statik]

1 hour ago, paraclese said:

I'm under the impression that the CPU is more temp sensitive than the GPU. And having the CPU cooler mounted to the front of the case would help keep the CPU cooler than having it mounted to the top as exhaust.

I wouldn't say it's more temp sensitive, it depends what you're doing. And moving it to the front will likely only net you a few degrees. It would be different if you were OC'd and running hot maybe, but with your temps they're beyond fine.

 

 

1 hour ago, PV2smokes said:

Someone correct me if im wrong, but does a 2080 Ti require 2 8 pin cables? 

Yes it does, OP has it correct.

[Lorant]

Yeah, you can mount an AIO to the front of the case if the tubing is long enough, looks like it may be close.

 

 

[freeagent]

It should be alright, I ran mine upfront quite a few times. I drew air in from the top to keep my vrms cooler. I ran push/pull on my H100 with good results.

[paraclese]

I was able to redo some of the cabling due to a low profile USB 3.1 Gen 1 cable and was able to run it through the back. I also moved the PSU CPU cables, so now they are completely hidden. I also added another exhaust fan (Noctua NF-F12 120mm) to the top, I know its overkill. The average CPU and motherboard temp have been running one to two degrees cooler since installed.

 

I would like to thank everyone again for the suggestions.