Corsair H45 water cooler default fan direction, intake or exhaust?

WastedHat

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Hello. I recently purchased a Corsair H45 water cooler. Corsair recommends mounting it as intake however it seems to be set up for exhaust out of the box. Can anyone confirm this?

I'm not entirely sure and I don't want to put everything together and have to pull it apart again because the fan is blowing the wrong way. Thanks.
 

WastedHat

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It seems the only way I can have it as an intake is to flip the fan over and have it sucking air through the radiator. Is there much difference comapred to having a fan at the bottom blowing air into the radiator?