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Push & pull worth it?

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Generally, push and pull offers a pretty small increase in performance over just pull or push. The gap is most prominent on a 120mm or 140mm AIO, but on a 240mm or larger AIO, especially with a Ryzen 8 core CPU, that amount of airflow over such a large surface area is kind of excessive.

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Is it worth doing a push & pull configuration on a front mounted aio? i got a 5800x

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Generally, push and pull offers a pretty small increase in performance over just pull or push. The gap is most prominent on a 120mm or 140mm AIO, but on a 240mm or larger AIO, especially with a Ryzen 8 core CPU, that amount of airflow over such a large surface area is kind of excessive.

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Just now, Fasauceome said:

Generally, push and pull offers a pretty small increase in performance over just pull or push. The gap is most prominent on a 120mm or 140mm AIO, but on a 240mm or larger AIO, especially with a Ryzen 8 core CPU, that amount of airflow over such a large surface area is kind of excessive.

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29 minutes ago, Cronicz said:

Is it worth doing a push & pull configuration on a front mounted aio? i got a 5800x

There is a push/pull use as noise reduction in some but not most situations.  That’s about it though.  The deal is the noise curve on fans is not flat. There’s a sort of hook in the low end. Sometimes if you’ve got something just outside this hook you can pull it back in with a second fan, and thus you can actually reduce total noise by adding a fan, so it’s done, but not often.

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