Water Cooling Radiator Placement

We continue our guides that show differences in radiator performance depending on the speed of the fans thickness and fpi of radiators etc.

Water cooling radiator placement. I always assumed that radiator placement made little difference to internal temperatures i even backed up my thoughts on this by checking out a few youtube videos. Water cooling systems. An aircraft radiator contained in a duct heats the air passing through causing the air to expand and gain velocity. You just want to make sure it has the right amount of tightness so the system s heat is transferred properly to the radiator for cooling.

Wasn t thinking that it would be significant but don t have the background to know if a rad that is 10c hotter a large number than ambient air would add much impetus to the air being moved through it. Liquid cooling to briefly summarize how liquid cooling works liquid commonly water based is pushed through a series of tubes blocks and radiators by a pump in order to transfer heat from components such as a gpu or cpu to the air outside of a computer chassis more efficiently than a standard air cooling system. This was not an article i was ever planning to do. Placement of the fans.

In the very least we can look at liquid cooler placement performance in a few different cases. Aio radiator placement does it matter. All fans will be configured to 100 in our testing. Today we address the subject of push pull push pull fan setups and how they affect different radiators and performance.

Static pressure fans are designed to pull or push air with extra force which is ideal for areas with more restricted airflow like a water cooling radiator or a large cpu cooler with lots of fins. This includes measuring how much a front radiator might reduce cpu temperatures at risk of raising gpu temperatures or how a top mount might do the opposite. You may have recently read atila s excellent piece on air cooling vs.