Water Cooling Help - Radiators and Fans

sconr002

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I have attached a diagram below of what airflow will look like inside my current build.

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Red Box = Radiator
Blue Box = Fan


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I went with this because it seemed popular but what I am starting to think, as I am installing radiators and fans, is that am I just blowing all the cool air that my radiators are giving off directly out of my Computer Case instead of blowing it over components inside the case. What do you think? Thank you for any help in advance!
 
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The image for your case layout did not work, but for liquid cooling you want to do something like this...

Top of the case have a push/pull RAD setup with the air drawing out of the top of the case. If you have a 2 RAD setup with a 2nd RAD at the front you want to have another push pull if possible either drawing air in or pref is out if you have room for 2 fans pulling air in at the base of the case.

For a single RAD design have the RAD at the top in push/pull drawing the air out and fans at the front of the case drawing air in.

Looks kinda like this...

TacomaGuy

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I know with cars, radiators have fans that blow the cool wet air onto the engine to cool it down. I don't see why you would blow your radiator fans outside of your case, perhaps your fan in the front of the case would get ahold of that cold wet air and put it back into your computer. Just some thoughts...
 

sconr002

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Hey TacomaGuy, thanks for your response.

I did not know the air was wet after the radiator... maybe that isn't a good thing for components (This is my first time building a computer, I apologize upfront for any negligence).
 

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The image for your case layout did not work, but for liquid cooling you want to do something like this...

Top of the case have a push/pull RAD setup with the air drawing out of the top of the case. If you have a 2 RAD setup with a 2nd RAD at the front you want to have another push pull if possible either drawing air in or pref is out if you have room for 2 fans pulling air in at the base of the case.

For a single RAD design have the RAD at the top in push/pull drawing the air out and fans at the front of the case drawing air in.

Looks kinda like this...

http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://c1.neweggimages.com/BizIntell/item/11/133/11-133-244/11_update2_092414.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item%3DN82E16811133244&h=262&w=300&tbnid=LGsFOsG6ynwjlM:&zoom=1&docid=Hwr6ZPJufQFrAM&ei=6VRQVKWsI4LIsATWlYCIBA&tbm=isch
 
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