does an AIO Pull Air into case

[BlubFish_]

Just a quick question does an AIO still draw in air for the rest of the case

I think it does but for all i know it doesn't

cause this is going to be my first water cooling build

 

[jaslion]

Yes but it will be hotter air.

 

 

[Godlygamer23]

Depends on how the fans are oriented. My fans are oriented as exhaust, so they will push/pull(depending on the location on the radiator) air through the radiator. Technically, with the fans being used as exhaust, they can still pull air into the chassis, but that's primarily done by the intake fans in my case.

Edited March 12, 2023 by Godlygamer23

[Somerandomtechyboi]

1 minute ago, jaslion said:

Yes but it will be hotter air.

 

 

^^^

Front mount aio = colder cpu but everything else runs hotter

Top mount or even rear mount = colder everything else but cpu runs hotter

 

But why are you getting an aio in the first place? if you are looking for raw cooling performance then arctic liquid freezer ii or an ek aio, but id only see aios being justifiable once you start cooling things like a 13700k or up cause aircoolers like the peerless assassin or even silver soul 135 are dirt cheap (41$ and 30$ respectively) and those are both dual towers so they will crush any meekly 240 aio

[jaslion]

5 minutes ago, Somerandomtechyboi said:

Top mount or even rear mount = colder everything else but cpu runs hotter

Top mount depends if you do intake top aio + front intake then you get the best of both worlds.

[Somerandomtechyboi]

1 minute ago, jaslion said:

Top mount depends if you do intake top aio + front intake then you get the best of both worlds.

Right since the hot aio air will be exhausted alot quicker and not hit anything aside from the cpu vrm area since its closer to the rear of the case

 

Guess theres always the best of both worlds, but no 360mm top mount on some cases

[Dedayog]

16 minutes ago, BlubFish_ said:

Just a quick question does an AIO still draw in air for the rest of the case

I think it does but for all i know it doesn't

cause this is going to be my first water cooling build

 

Depends where you put the AIO.  Do you understand how fans work?  If so, you can answer this for yourself.

 

 

[freeagent]

I used strong fans on my AIO in both front and top mount, but I don't recall ever feeling warm air coming off the rad. I was using 120x38s on a 240 rad, both in push and push/pull, because I had 4

[jaslion]

10 hours ago, Somerandomtechyboi said:

Right since the hot aio air will be exhausted alot quicker and not hit anything aside from the cpu vrm area since its closer to the rear of the case

 

Guess theres always the best of both worlds, but no 360mm top mount on some cases

There are a fair few cases that have 360 top mounts tho

[NorKris]

9 hours ago, freeagent said:

I used strong fans on my AIO in both front and top mount, but I don't recall ever feeling warm air coming off the rad. I was using 120x38s on a 240 rad, both in push and push/pull, because I had 4

but but... this config would blow the socks, pants and shirt off an towercooler in performance 

[BlubFish_]

12 hours ago, Somerandomtechyboi said:

^^^

Front mount aio = colder cpu but everything else runs hotter

Top mount or even rear mount = colder everything else but cpu runs hotter

 

But why are you getting an aio in the first place? if you are looking for raw cooling performance then arctic liquid freezer ii or an ek aio, but id only see aios being justifiable once you start cooling things like a 13700k or up cause aircoolers like the peerless assassin or even silver soul 135 are dirt cheap (41$ and 30$ respectively) and those are both dual towers so they will crush any meekly 240 aio

So for a ryzen 5 7600 an air cooler should be enough then

[freeagent]

22 minutes ago, NorKris said:

but but... this config would blow the socks, pants and shirt off an towercooler in performance 

It was pretty good.

 

You know what wasn’t good?

 

Permeation.

[Godlygamer23]

22 minutes ago, BlubFish_ said:

So for a ryzen 5 7600 an air cooler should be enough then

Yup. 

[Somerandomtechyboi]

40 minutes ago, BlubFish_ said:

So for a ryzen 5 7600 an air cooler should be enough then

Yep

Also why dont you go get the 7700 instead? 2 more cores and no need to buy a cooler cause the wraith prism is a solid stock cooler, if youve hit budget ceiling already then you can cut cost on something else (most common overspending areas = board, case, psu, high end gen4 ssd) assuming your build isnt fully cost optimized yet