Water Cooling Radiator Placement

Placement of the fans.

Water cooling radiator placement.

Today we address the subject of push pull push pull fan setups and how they affect different radiators and performance. All fans will be configured to 100 in our testing. This was not an article i was ever planning to do. Aio radiator placement does it matter.

You may have recently read atila s excellent piece on air cooling vs. An aircraft radiator contained in a duct heats the air passing through causing the air to expand and gain velocity. 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.

We hope to help you decide what kind of setup is right for you and to show the benefits of each. That said some basic tests on these high static pressure models show that their benefit is questionable in standard air cooled builds. 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. Water cooling systems.

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