How does this cooling setup work?

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Dogsnake
Yes hot air is brought into the case by the radiator. However it is cool air being brought over the radiator from the outside. You must use cool outside air to remove the heat from the cooling loop. In this case (lol) the system depends on the case air removal flow to remove both the cpu heated radiator air and the heat transferred to the case air by other components. You would loose cpu cooling if you used case air that is heated by the other items as you radiator cooling air. One of the challenges is when you have graphics cards that do not exhaust to the outside but into the case. Many modern cards with improved card cooling do this. So the case air flow must manage even more heated air to exhaust.
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Yeah I that's what I am going to do. Am I right in saying that the config I showed in that picture (http://www.corsair.com/~/media/Corsair/Product%20Photos/cases/carbide-series/240/black/large/AIR240_BLK_11.png) is blowing all the CPU hot air back into the case? Doesn't make sense lol My case is going to be the Corsair 250D which I can blow air out of the top, the only concern is cooling the GPU in a small case
 
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Yes hot air is brought into the case by the radiator. However it is cool air being brought over the radiator from the outside. You must use cool outside air to remove the heat from the cooling loop. In this case (lol) the system depends on the case air removal flow to remove both the cpu heated radiator air and the heat transferred to the case air by other components. You would loose cpu cooling if you used case air that is heated by the other items as you radiator cooling air. One of the challenges is when you have graphics cards that do not exhaust to the outside but into the case. Many modern cards with improved card cooling do this. So the case air flow must manage even more heated air to exhaust.
 
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it's back to the airflow inside the case,
as long as the air is moving and not stagnant like oven it's will be okay..
except if u are going to extreme O.C. where every mhz/degree is count, normal usage will be fine..
 
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