Push and push/pull question.....not a vs question

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Alexkaneaster

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Quick question to anyone that's tried push and push/pull. Did you notice much of a difference between the two? Enough to really matter? I've read the research, but I'm just looking for some hands-on experience comments. I have a 900D, two quad rads, dual 655 pumps, and I'll be cooling a 4960x, rampage iv black, and 3 undecided video cards....prob 780 ti classifieds. I have both rads on push only right now (sp120's) and don't really want to go push/pull. I'm thinking with all that rad space...even though it's coolings some hot hardware....it wouldn't really matter. Am I off on that idea? I'm still building and can make adjustments, I'm taking my time. Any comments appreciated.
 
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BigBadBeef

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The liquid cooling hardware is so efficient that it doesn't really matter if set up properly and that there are no air bubbles inside. Unless you intend to do some beyond ridiculous overclocking, it will handle anything you throw at it!
 
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4Ryan6

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You can achieve better cooling results by using a shroud and move your fans onto the shroud in the pull configuration, that way you completely eliminate the dead spots the fan motor body creates and allows full cool air flow pulling through the full face of the radiator cooling fins.

Even with fans on both sides of the rad the fan motor bodies housing blocks airflow, it's not rocket science to clearly see what I'm telling you, if you can get full faced airflow through that radiator it will cool better.

Quad shroud for 120mm cooling fans;

http://www.performance-pcs.com/catalog/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=39381

Quad shroud for 140mm cooling fans:

http://www.performance-pcs.com/catalog/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=39385

I tried many options but once I used the shrouds and saw the cooling difference, I was 100% sold and not disappointed!

 
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