So quick Q for you watercoolers.
Currently have 3 rads in PC, one top, one bottom, one front. Would it be better overall to take the front rad out so cooler air is being pushed into the case?
Disclaimer: I may have asked this before, however, I'm never really please with my PC so apologies if so.
Avet is correct. Surface area is everything. However! a minor caviat here. And something which I changed recently to see a adequate improvement.
Having your front radiators as intake isnt always optimal. I'm talking the the min-max type of person. The reason being, once your radiators have warmed up and normalised, your front intake fans will push that cooler air through the rad which is already warm, and thus, you have warm air as an intake. This raises the case temp slightly or alot depending on case.
I had 2 480 rads as front intake. Once I moved them to the top of my rad acting as exhaust and then had 8 fans in the front as pure intake, my case temp and water temp is much cooler. Obviously it will never beat ambient temps, but its no longer like an oven.
So basically CPU went from 73C peak in Division 2, and now it runs at 67C.
I have a neutral setup as opposed to postive pressure before. I now use 8 fans intake and 8 fans exhaust.
Back in my old case the TT Tower 900, the temps were just nuts. I think My CPU peaked at 55C with a moderate 4.6ghz overclock on a 7700k. Since the rads were decoupled from the components in the case, and I had 2 fresh intakes and 2 exhaust in the front. I really do miss that case
Just had a nostalgic moment.
Flashback to my first full watercooling kit ever. 2004 was a sweet year. And that is an Asetek cooling kit.
The CPU block had TWO intakes
And I cooled my GPU with this one. To cool my 6800gt