Which is better? I tried looking around but most people seem more interested in how their case looks rather than how well cooled it is.
The way I see it the PSU mounted on the top gives you more spread out cooling if you have all fans intaking and the rear exhausting, only thing I can see being bad about this is if you have an air cooled CPU.
With the PSU on the bottom the air has to go around it making it less efficient and there's no option to have fresh air blowing up into the GPU.
In my case anyhow I see top mounted PSU being better. I have water cooling so I don't really need any fresh air coming from the top to help out an air CPU cooler. The radiator would be on the bottom pulling fresh air in and having full access to my GPU, keeping it alittle cooler.
See spoiler for Visual.
The way I see it the PSU mounted on the top gives you more spread out cooling if you have all fans intaking and the rear exhausting, only thing I can see being bad about this is if you have an air cooled CPU.
With the PSU on the bottom the air has to go around it making it less efficient and there's no option to have fresh air blowing up into the GPU.
In my case anyhow I see top mounted PSU being better. I have water cooling so I don't really need any fresh air coming from the top to help out an air CPU cooler. The radiator would be on the bottom pulling fresh air in and having full access to my GPU, keeping it alittle cooler.
See spoiler for Visual.
Grey = PSU
Blue = Fans
Red = Radiator (push/pull)
Green lines = Cool air
Red lines = Hot exhaust
Orange (PSU): Possible residual heat.
Blue = Fans
Red = Radiator (push/pull)
Green lines = Cool air
Red lines = Hot exhaust
Orange (PSU): Possible residual heat.