Water Cooling Radiator Placement

This was not an article i was ever planning to do.

Water cooling radiator placement.

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. An aircraft radiator contained in a duct heats the air passing through causing the air to expand and gain velocity. 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. Today we address the subject of push pull push pull fan setups and how they affect different radiators and performance.

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. In the very least we can look at liquid cooler placement performance in a few different cases. You may have recently read atila s excellent piece on air cooling vs. Aio radiator placement does it matter.

We hope to help you decide what kind of setup is right for you and to show the benefits of each. All fans will be configured to 100 in our testing. Placement of the fans. The need for evaporative cooling was soon to be negated by the widespread availability of ethylene glycol based coolants which had a lower specific heat but a much higher boiling point than water.

That said some basic tests on these high static pressure models show that their benefit is questionable in standard air cooled builds. We continue our guides that show differences in radiator performance depending on the speed of the fans thickness and fpi of radiators etc. 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.