Overclockers UK Forums. If you have you bottom rad as intake sucking fresh air from the outside, you might want to get some taller replacement feet as well. As always, comment below or … Do not intake into the case, that's adding temperature to the ambient case temps and defeats the purpose of water cooling. Hi, Ive bought a NZXT kraken x63 and I have a Corsair Carbide Series 275Q chassis and Gigabyte Aorus Master X570 motherboard (links to specs are at the bottom). what screw length do i need for a pull intake (or push exhuast). The ebay listed radiator that I posted has intake and outlet in the perfect position for the Elan. I have 5 filtered intakes and three exhausts not including the PSU which is a separate air path, though its intake is also filtered. I have an HAF 932 Advanced case, 230mm intake on front and side, and 140mm exhaust on rear. Short answer is yes. This is a single fan GTX 960. But I … After much extensive testing on UTube (Jay's Two Cents & Linus Tech Tips are 2 good channels to watch) It really does not matter. Does it exhaust the air out the back, or does air escape into the case from the sides of the heat Sink? I have two intake case fans blowing on the drive bays, one at the bottom of the case and one under the power supply (both intakes), and one at the back of the case as exhaust. CPU temperatures were predictably lower when the radiator was placed in the path of unwarmed in-flowing air, while GPU temperatures were lower when inflowing air was not warmed by the CPU. The front only has room for the 1x200mm fan at the bottom. 2--Using the rear and top fans as intake and radiator will be exhaust to the front of the case. (Optional) An additional, bottom-mounted intake fan to pull cool air from the underside (the case must be mounted on wheels or blocks). So, if you want optimal overall temps, you should give your radiator fresh air. if i were to add a 240/280mm front rad I would keep them as intakes even though this would warm the air as it entered the case. My CPU runs 30-40 degrees with it this way depending on load, but I have noticed that it greatly helps my GPU stay much cooler. 2 front and 1 back. My question is, is it better to have them set for exhaust or intake? I have a top mounted radiator, XSPC RX360, and will have push pull fans. So i will have a 900D, with 3 AF120 performance as intake, a single AF140 quiet as exhaust in the rear. I was watching some youtubers put the radiator in front and have it serve as an intake instead of exhaust. I have a NZXT H500 case, it has 1exhaust on the back and 1 on the top aswell and i have a NZXT kraken x62 for cpu liquid cooling and the radiator is mounted at the front with 2 intake fans. The rear exhaust fan will receive the front intake from the radiator and exhaust its slightly warmed air, leaving the GPU to intake from the lower front fan. The build I'm working on right now has a bottom mounted radiator with exhaust out the bottom. I've been told that if you front mount an AIO that the radiator should be positioned so the hoses/tubes are coming from the bottom and not the top as... Log in or Sign up. If you do mount it on top then exhaust is better but not for cooling reasons but so it does not suck in so much dust. Buy Rosewill PRISM T ATX Mid Tower Gaming PC Computer Case with Tempered Glass, 4 Pre-Installed 120mm Fans, 420mm / 360mm / 240mm Radiator Support, EATX Support, Bottom Mount PSU Shroud and HDD / SSD with fast shipping and … 1--Using the radiator as intake, which will take cool air from the outside (needed for this cpu running hot) , blow it hot into the case and use the top and rear fans as exhaust. the screws i have are long, they are meant to go through the fan and case into the rad. In my new rig I had to front mount my rad for an intake. 28 Apr 2020 at 15:50 #11. The key, therefore, is to add fans that either get rid of this ambient heat or bring in fresh, cooler air to be used. Exhausting air form inside the case through a radiator may give you a few degrees higher CPU temp in games because GPU makes a lot of hot air. I think the way I have my fans set up my GPU is slightly cooler. 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