CPU Rad Only Air Intake A Problem?

[MrDevanWright]

I'm building in the Sliger CX3171a and was planning on installing a 360 rad at the front for my Ryzen 9 7950X3D. That would mean the only air intake for my other components (Asus Tuf Gaming X870-Plus, G.SKILL Ripjaws S5 DDR5-6000, Gigabyte 5070 Ti Eagle OC, Samsung SSD 9100 Pro, etc) is coming directly from the processor radiator. Do you think this is a problem? Should I instead run a 240 rad, with a separate fan for additional case air intake?

[strange13930]

36 minutes ago, MrDevanWright said:

I'm building in the Sliger CX3171a and was planning on installing a 360 rad at the front for my Ryzen 9 7950X3D. That would mean the only air intake for my other components (Asus Tuf Gaming X870-Plus, G.SKILL Ripjaws S5 DDR5-6000, Gigabyte 5070 Ti Eagle OC, Samsung SSD 9100 Pro, etc) is coming directly from the processor radiator. Do you think this is a problem? Should I instead run a 240 rad, with a separate fan for additional case air intake?

it should be fine.

[Hinjima]

58 minutes ago, MrDevanWright said:

I'm building in the Sliger CX3171a and was planning on installing a 360 rad at the front for my Ryzen 9 7950X3D. That would mean the only air intake for my other components (Asus Tuf Gaming X870-Plus, G.SKILL Ripjaws S5 DDR5-6000, Gigabyte 5070 Ti Eagle OC, Samsung SSD 9100 Pro, etc) is coming directly from the processor radiator. Do you think this is a problem? Should I instead run a 240 rad, with a separate fan for additional case air intake?

I think it will be fine as well.

Just make sure to run your pump at a decent speed and you might want to run the radiator fans rather high as well for some extra airflow.

Maybe get some small Noctua fans and mount them at the rear for some exhaust to help move air through.

[Agall]

1 hour ago, MrDevanWright said:

I'm building in the Sliger CX3171a and was planning on installing a 360 rad at the front for my Ryzen 9 7950X3D. That would mean the only air intake for my other components (Asus Tuf Gaming X870-Plus, G.SKILL Ripjaws S5 DDR5-6000, Gigabyte 5070 Ti Eagle OC, Samsung SSD 9100 Pro, etc) is coming directly from the processor radiator. Do you think this is a problem? Should I instead run a 240 rad, with a separate fan for additional case air intake?

It would probably be fine, but I'd personally just go with the 240mm and have one fan unrestricted. The 7950x3D is at the absolute most a 155W part, plenty for a 240mm AIO.

 

I'd say the 240mm option with the GPU side fan intake unrestricted would just be better overall for supplying airflow to the GPU. Its not the matter of passing it through a radiator and adding energy, but restricting intake unnecessarily with a 360mm radiator. ESPECIALLY if the 5070ti (that's a 300W card) is mounted sideways, which appears to be the case.