Radiator Placement?

[MekaStrix]

Hi,

 

I just watched a video of radiator placement and apparently it is bad to put your radiator in the top of your case exhausting if you have an open air gpu cooler. I have a Kraken x62 and was going to put it in the top as an Exhaust on my Enthoo Luxe maybe I will be better putting it as intake but then I will have 4 intake one exhaust fan?

[aisle9]

1 minute ago, MekaStrix said:

Hi,

 

I just watched a video of radiator placement and apparently it is bad to put your radiator in the top of your case exhausting if you have an open air gpu cooler. I have a Kraken x62 and was going to put it in the top as an Exhaust on my Enthoo Luxe maybe I will be better putting it as intake but then I will have 4 intake one exhaust fan?

My Kraken X61 performs a solid 5C better as an intake than as an exhaust. If you can get your X62 mounted as a front intake somehow, that'll give you great results.

 

Radiators exhausting from the top with a GPU below them aren't "bad" by any stretch of the imagination, they're just not as beautifully optimized. Remember that intake rads have their own issue: they heat up the inside of the case and push warmer air into the GPU.

[MekaStrix]

22 minutes ago, aisle9 said:

My Kraken X61 performs a solid 5C better as an intake than as an exhaust. If you can get your X62 mounted as a front intake somehow, that'll give you great results.

 

Radiators exhausting from the top with a GPU below them aren't "bad" by any stretch of the imagination, they're just not as beautifully optimized. Remember that intake rads have their own issue: they heat up the inside of the case and push warmer air into the GPU.

yeah but apparently the amount a front rad heats up the gpu is not very big compared to how much an open air cooler gpu with top mounted rad heats up the cpu by 5-10c more apparently 

[Dango]

If you think GPUs hot air can effect CPU temp, then you should think more about hot air from your CPU AIO effect on the GPU's temp.

GPU use more power and output much more heat than CPU most of the time. And in game, GPU at full load but CPU not.

So, in my case, GPU always the priority to get most cool air.

[Mick Naughty]

I know my cpu temps when up with my open air gpu coolers. Not so much with just one card but with two it was quite noticeable. Still didn't bother me much though. Only 10-12c over a few hours of gaming.

[asand1]

7 hours ago, Dango said:

If you think GPUs hot air can effect CPU temp, then you should think more about hot air from your CPU AIO effect on the GPU's temp.

GPU use more power and output much more heat than CPU most of the time. And in game, GPU at full load but CPU not.

So, in my case, GPU always the priority to get most cool air.

BS, GPUs Run hotter when gaming.

 

[MekaStrix]

2 hours ago, asand1 said:

BS, GPUs Run hotter when gaming.

 

This is the video I watched it shows that gpu heat affects cpu more than cpu heat affects gpu 

[MekaStrix]

6 hours ago, Mick Naughty said:

I know my cpu temps when up with my open air gpu coolers. Not so much with just one card but with two it was quite noticeable. Still didn't bother me much though. Only 10-12c over a few hours of gaming.

Im still not sure what cpu to use I could keep my 5960x or go 7700k