ninoman123

Quick noob water cooling question.

I ordered a dual 120mm radiator. Do I want them blowing air through the rad or sucking it through? Or...one of each? I will probably only have room to put the radiator on the top of my case or windowless side. Any suggestions? Thanks for the help.

cyrixMII300

you should be installing the fans to blow air into the rad. that will give u more turbulence and vortice formation inside among the fins.

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ninoman123

Thats what I figured, but I wanted to be 100% sure. +rep

Thanks!

slydog64

a push/pull system is actually the best, in which u have fans blowing and sucking. But it doesn't offer that much performance gain over push or pull seperatly.

Pulling seems to be quieter, while pushing is louder with slightly better performance.

At least this is what I think.

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ninoman123

Ahh...that would make sense. I guess its all about testing heh

Snerp

I've been told by the big dogs (burn & transonic) that pull will give the best out of either push or pull, but push and pull will give the best of all.

soloz2

I pull air through my rad and get great temps.

I think to really know for sure you'll have to do some testing in your system as each loop and install is slightly different.

but as a general rule:
pushing or forcing air through your rad may give slightly higher performance but will also probably create more noise due to more turbulance.
pulling air through your rad will probably be slightly quieter and give the same or only slightly worse performance.
and I'm talking like 1-2 degree difference here so in all actuality do what works best for your install

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I've gone with pushing air through mine, as it looks the best with the fans I've chosen.
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