Good liquid cooling fan setup?

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FlambePhoenix

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I currently have the Corsair H80i in my system and this fan setup:

2 Front Intake
1 Rear Exhaust
1 Bottom Intake
And the rad fans as intake

Is it any good or should I have more exhaust?
 
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With rad fans as intake... you are pulling hot air into your case. Gpu can suffer for this. As well as chipset and vrm. If anything as a simple test, flip rad fans to exhaust. The total case flow will increase thereb6 negating beliefs of hot air exhausted thru rad. Worth a try at least right? This works best if rad is mounted on back or top of case to utilize normal convection cooling and heat flow, with front and bottom fans intaking cool air.

Cases with a lot of venting are designed to benefit from positive pressure flow - more intake than exhaust. Cases with little to no venting other fan fan cutouts are designed for negative case pressure - higher exhaust cfm than intake. Sometimes flipping a fan or upgrading certain fans...
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Buzz247

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With rad fans as intake... you are pulling hot air into your case. Gpu can suffer for this. As well as chipset and vrm. If anything as a simple test, flip rad fans to exhaust. The total case flow will increase thereb6 negating beliefs of hot air exhausted thru rad. Worth a try at least right? This works best if rad is mounted on back or top of case to utilize normal convection cooling and heat flow, with front and bottom fans intaking cool air.

Cases with a lot of venting are designed to benefit from positive pressure flow - more intake than exhaust. Cases with little to no venting other fan fan cutouts are designed for negative case pressure - higher exhaust cfm than intake. Sometimes flipping a fan or upgrading certain fans to higher cfm are easy fixes and substanstially benefit cooling performance of the entire system. Remember, more than just your cpu needs to be cooled.
 
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