AIO Liquid Cooler intake exhaust?

[dslatsh]

So I've been trying to OC my AMD fx 8370....and been debating on which way I want my liquid cooling system to go as far as intake or exhaust...I've been trying to figure out which way seems to cool better and it's kind of hard to tell....My CPU it's self doesn't really get above 40 either way but my socket is what i'm more worried about. Was reaching up to 65 if i remember right.
I have an Antec twelve hundred v3 case. Which has three intake 120 mm fans in the front in the drive bays (my Hard drives are all in the very bottom drive-bay. I added a cooler master jet flo 120 in the middle bracket so it would be pulling/pushing the air the front fan brought in which is straight across from the fans on the liquid cooler.

It has a top 200 mm fan for exhaust and two rear 120 mm exhaust fans.

The liquid cooler is a corsair h80i V2. Which I had to remove the lower back exhaust fan to mount. So with some of that info would it be best you think to have it as an push and pull intake? Which i noticed kept the CPU it's self cooler then having as an push and pull exhaust. Only thing about that is it puts some warmish air in case due to the air being put in goes through the radiator. Or what about a intake/exhaust meaning the back brings in cool air to cool radiator and the inside fan exhausts to push air out which can some what cool the radiator as well.

The one project I'd like to do is figure out a way to mount a fan to the side of the case behind the motherboard where the CPU cut out is so I could have an intake fan directly blowing air on the back of the motherboard/socket.

 

[Suztera]

Don't do a fan configuration that causes the airflow to conflict. That would bring the worst cooling performance.
Using it as an exhaust or intake doesn't really matter but for use management, use it as an exhaust.
You could use push/pull configuration if it can fit but it would be a marginally increase in cooling performance most of the time.
Doing an exhuast with the fan pulling air from the radiator would be my choice.

 

[rubix_1011]

Usually for AIO coolers, pull is the best fan configuration if you have to decide between push or pull simply due to dense radiator fin design.

Cool air is usually the best when it comes to radiators, but ultimately depends on how good your case airflow is to begin with. If your radiator is constantly pushing out very warm or hot air, you don't have enough radiator for your cooling needs; a.k.a, your delta-T is too high.

 

[dslatsh]

Push and pull configuration refers to having both set as exhaust correct? One fan pushing exhaust out while the other is pulling that same air out?

 

[rubix_1011]

Push/pull refers to having one fan push air 'into' the cooler and the other one 'pulling' air through. Airflow is going in one continuous direction, all the way through.

 

[4Ryan6]

I have a question for you dslatsh, are you 100% comfortable and confident, that you have replaced the quantity of airflow your stock CPU air cooler was supplying to your voltage regulators surrounding the CPU socket?

That stock CPU cooler was not only cooling the CPU.

 

[dslatsh]

I have a question for you dslatsh, are you 100% comfortable and confident, that you have replaced the quantity of airflow your stock CPU air cooler was supplying to your voltage regulators surrounding the CPU socket?

That stock CPU cooler was not only cooling the CPU.

I'd like to think so...last I knew stock cpu coolers aren't the best and mine was a pretty old style AMD one before. Although I heard the new wraith is supposed to be pretty good.