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Radiator Position and Fan Direction

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EnderW

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I'm thinking of getting H20 for my CPU. I have very limited space in my Lian Li PC-65B and I was planning on putting a single BIX in the top. Since I want to have an intake fan on the top for my PSU (see this thead), my radiator will be towards the front of my case. I also will have a couple of optical drives and a fan controller, so there will be little space between the fan and the top drive.

I plan on have the air blow OUT of the case, since my case air should be pretty cool with the H20 taking up the CPU heat and the NV Silencer exhausting the hot air from the video card out the back.

What so you guys think?
 
How concerned are you with having the watercooling perform well. Are you in it for the performance or do you want the silence. If you are in it for the silence you could replace the blowhole and simply place the radiator there. Have the fan on the radiator blow the air (or pull it) through the top of the case, acting like a blowhole. The performance will suffer a bit because the case temp will still be higher than outside the case, but it wont be too much worse. That way you still have the blowhole and you save some space. I think that you could still fit in 2 optical drives and a fan controller pretty easily as well.
 
Erasmus354 said:
How concerned are you with having the watercooling perform well. Are you in it for the performance or do you want the silence. If you are in it for the silence you could replace the blowhole and simply place the radiator there. Have the fan on the radiator blow the air (or pull it) through the top of the case, acting like a blowhole. The performance will suffer a bit because the case temp will still be higher than outside the case, but it wont be too much worse. That way you still have the blowhole and you save some space. I think that you could still fit in 2 optical drives and a fan controller pretty easily as well.
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If you will read the thread I linked above, you'll see that I'm using my blowhole fan as an intake for my PSU.
 
then use the radiator as an intake...I think you should have gotten my point that whatever you are using the blowhole for you can stick the radiator there and do the same thing.
 
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