AIO Position question

[chipley]

ok so its my first time building a pc and got recommended to use an aio which i have got (its the cosair h100i V2) and i wanted to know which way would be the best way to use it as an intake on the front like which way the fans should go e.g. Fans at front or at the back

 

[QwerkyPengwen]

overall it's just better to have the rad mounted to front of case.
In more specific and unique circumstances, better to mount it to top if top supports it. But this requires certain conditions to be met first if it is to be better to do this overall for your system.

When mounting to the front, the fans can be either push or pull on the rad.
If you don't have a dust filter on the front of the case, then setting them up to be pull is better since even though dust will accumulate on the rad, the air flow restriction will be lesser than if the dust accumulates more on the fans.

If you have a dust filter at the front, then you might want to consider setting the fans up to be push instead since having both a rad and a dust filter to pull air through would be more restrictive than to just have a dust filter to pull air through while pushing the air through the rad.

However, if your case has a side panel window, and you have RGB fans, then set them up to pull air through the rad instead of push for maximum RGB effect, alternatively though, if you have a mesh front with a dust filter that the RGB could be seen through then you might consider doing push config instead depending on what you think would look better, or if you have a glass front panel then setting them up to push would also be a consideration, however, with no dust filter, you would have to wager if you want to have to take it apart a little more often to clean the fans of dust or not.

The positioning of the fans is simple.
There is a front of the fan and a back of the fan.
The front of the fan is clean and usually has the manufacturer logo on it.
The back of the fan usually is a little less pretty and is the side of the fan that has the cross bars holding the fan into place.
(with a lot of fans out there though, on the fan itself carved into it is an arrow pointing in a certain direction, this direction tells you which way the air flows)
If there is an arrow, set it up obviously so that air flows into the case towards the back and across the mobo and stuff.
But in general, the air flows from the front of the fan to the back of the fan meaning that the front of the fan faces the front of your case and the back of the fan faces inwards towards all your components and towards the back of the case.

Hope this information was helpful to you. If you require anymore information or assistance regarding your cooling situation please ask it in this thread instead of making a new one.

If you have other questions about other things not related to this topic, please make another thread for it.

 

[chipley]

overall it's just better to have the rad mounted to front of case.
In more specific and unique circumstances, better to mount it to top if top supports it. But this requires certain conditions to be met first if it is to be better to do this overall for your system.

When mounting to the front, the fans can be either push or pull on the rad.
If you don't have a dust filter on the front of the case, then setting them up to be pull is better since even though dust will accumulate on the rad, the air flow restriction will be lesser than if the dust accumulates more on the fans.

If you have a dust filter at the front, then you might want to consider setting the fans up to be push instead since having both a rad and a dust filter to pull air through would be more restrictive than to just have a dust filter to pull air through while pushing the air through the rad.

However, if your case has a side panel window, and you have RGB fans, then set them up to pull air through the rad instead of push for maximum RGB effect, alternatively though, if you have a mesh front with a dust filter that the RGB could be seen through then you might consider doing push config instead depending on what you think would look better, or if you have a glass front panel then setting them up to push would also be a consideration, however, with no dust filter, you would have to wager if you want to have to take it apart a little more often to clean the fans of dust or not.

The positioning of the fans is simple.
There is a front of the fan and a back of the fan.
The front of the fan is clean and usually has the manufacturer logo on it.
The back of the fan usually is a little less pretty and is the side of the fan that has the cross bars holding the fan into place.
(with a lot of fans out there though, on the fan itself carved into it is an arrow pointing in a certain direction, this direction tells you which way the air flows)
If there is an arrow, set it up obviously so that air flows into the case towards the back and across the mobo and stuff.
But in general, the air flows from the front of the fan to the back of the fan meaning that the front of the fan faces the front of your case and the back of the fan faces inwards towards all your components and towards the back of the case.

Hope this information was helpful to you. If you require anymore information or assistance regarding your cooling situation please ask it in this thread instead of making a new one.

If you have other questions about other things not related to this topic, please make another thread for it.

OK thanks you so much very helpful but what is "push" or "pull" is pull when you have the radiator on the front and fans at the back or what?

 

[QwerkyPengwen]

when you put fans at the front of a case, air only moves in one direction right?
(the answer is yes, assuming you have them flipped the right way) it moves from outside the case, inward through the front of the case, and across the inside of the case towards the rear/top.

what makes a difference with radiators, is what side of the radiator you put the fans on, so that they are either pulling air through the radiator, or pushing air through it.