Rad/fan positioning input needed

[GeeksFTW]

Ok, let me first start out by saying, to ward off flamers - if I had all this stuff I would just test out prototypes myself. But since I dont, yet, I am trying to gather opinions...


Now i have a simple drawing here and im wondering what your opinions on it should be...





The options are :

1) Fans on the right suck from outside, fans on the left blow down tubes.
2) Fans on the left suck thru the tube, fans on the right blow to outside.
3) Flip Rad to bottom of case and have tubes going out the top of the case and have the fans suck thru the tube, out to the bottom.
4) Same as 3 but blowing thru the tube and sucking from the bottom.
5) Make your own combo, i have really no space limitations.
6) WTF?


At the risk of sounding gay, I value your guys opinions, which is why i chose to ask this here.

Thanks..

 

[n00btard]

The options are :

At the risk of sounding gay, I value your guys opinions, which is why i chose to ask this here.

Thanks..

"Asking is the humiliation of a moment, not asking is the humiliation of a lifetime." - some Japanese phrase.

As for the radiator thing, I don't have a watercooling loop (yet) so I can't really answer that.

 

[thewhiteguy]

The radiator will not noticeably increase the temperature of the air that passes through it, especially when the radiator is a triple 120mm. Don't bother with ducting, just let the radiator fans double as case intake fans.

 

[billb]

The radiator will not noticeably increase the temperature of the air that passes through it, especially when the radiator is a triple 120mm. Don't bother with ducting, just let the radiator fans double as case intake fans.

What he said.

Or just mount the pump and rad remotely.

 

[sprocket]

While I agree with the above two comments, if you are dead set on having ducts (tubes?) then I would prefer #2, except mount the "intake" fans directly to the casefloor.

 

[mrgstiffler]

I wouldn't use the ducts and I'd only put fans on one side. You're not going to get much increased performance with 6 fans, it will just increase noise.

 

[GeeksFTW]

The radiator will not noticeably increase the temperature of the air that passes through it, especially when the radiator is a triple 120mm. Don't bother with ducting, just let the radiator fans double as case intake fans.

So it seems 3 fans, sucking from outside the case, blowing thru the rad is the popular choice.... But, how come i see so many people either blowing hot air from the inside of the case thru the rad, or sucking air from the rad thru the top. In most cases, isn't the best option to blow air either on the component or thru it(CPU HSF), even in a car, the huge radiator fan blows thru the rad.... I guess i have to wait to see for myself ehh?

I just wanted a general idea of how much space i'd be needing for my build and those BIX III's are pretty big space hogs for the inside of a case, so i wanted to get that planning out of the way.

Also, (sorry to ramble) i've seen many benches on the performance of a BIX III and the results were pretty much all over the place (from as low as 32*C to 55*C on nearly identical systems/conditions). So i guess what im wondering is how much more closer to ambient temps would a second BIX III or maybe II get you? (other w/c components not really relevant yet, so hold all those at a constant).

Thanks

 

[Demon_of_The_Fall]

A lot of tests seem to show that pulling through a radiator is a couple of percent (2-3) better than pushing through.

Then again with percentages that low I'd say it jsut doesn't matter at all which way you choose to do it. Just rig it whatever way is easiest.