Cooling placement in Cosair 5000D airflow?

shadowhazard · April 7, 2021

The cooling of the case will include a 240 AIO cpu cooler on the top, a gpu with a built in 240 at the side, the remaining open 3 slots for fans at thefron + 1 back exhaust as the most likely cooling set up. With that set up what is the suggested intake and exhaust set up of the rads? Side rad acting as an immediate exhaust of the front intake and the top rad acting as an intake for the back exhaust or the front being the exclusive intake and the rads and back all acting as exhaust?

tdkid · April 8, 2021

3 hours ago, shadowhazard said:

The cooling of the case will include a 240 AIO cpu cooler on the top, a gpu with a built in 240 at the side, the remaining open 3 slots for fans at thefron + 1 back exhaust as the most likely cooling set up. With that set up what is the suggested intake and exhaust set up of the rads? Side rad acting as an immediate exhaust of the front intake and the top rad acting as an intake for the back exhaust or the front being the exclusive intake and the rads and back all acting as exhaust?

the problem with AIOs and radiators in general is that they work best when only set up as exhaust. if you were to put them as intakes, you would be blowing hot air into the case and that wouldnt make whatever fans you have set up as exhaust fans not as efficent. depending on what the case is, i would suggest taking whatever space is not taken up by the CPU and GPU collers and put some fans their as intake.