Front intake with radiator advice push or pull

[BigBen1996]

Okay I'm running this case https://www.nzxt.com/products/s340-black and as you see there's a front compartment where a magnetic vent goes which I love. I have my h115i liquid cooler running as an intake right against that. But I cannot decide if I want push or pull, originally push made sense due to vent but would pull configuration pull more air through the vent if the radiator was next to it? It's driving me crazy and I love this community,always good advice. Id like it to be more of a discussion with thoughts about this, there is no true answer to this and I'm willing to accept that but I love trying new configurations and maybe I'll get more cooling due to a pull over a push!

My build:
Z170x gaming 7
i5-6400 OC to 4.8ghz by BCLK
16gb A-DATA DDR4 Ram
MSI GTX1060 3gb OCV1
120gb SSD A-DATA

 

[Deniedstingray]

I have the elite version of that case and i have it setup to pull air into the case. Reason being, the case comes with two exhaust fans already so if you have your rad pulling air into the case it is the perfect setup.

 

[BigBen1996]

I have the elite version of that case and i have it setup to pull air into the case. Reason being, the case comes with two exhaust fans already so if you have your rad pulling air into the case it is the perfect setup.

By pulling you mean fans on the inner side of the radiator pulling air through it rather then pushing air through it from the outer side?

 

[Deniedstingray]

I have the elite version of that case and i have it setup to pull air into the case. Reason being, the case comes with two exhaust fans already so if you have your rad pulling air into the case it is the perfect setup.

By pulling you mean fans on the inner side of the radiator pulling air through it rather then pushing air through it from the outer side?

Air is being pulled into the case, Yes. However my rad is against the air filter and my fans are on the other side. I believe that is incorrect installation but i just couldnt be bothered to do it the other way at the time of installation. Works great though.

 

[BigBen1996]

I have the elite version of that case and i have it setup to pull air into the case. Reason being, the case comes with two exhaust fans already so if you have your rad pulling air into the case it is the perfect setup.

By pulling you mean fans on the inner side of the radiator pulling air through it rather then pushing air through it from the outer side?

Air is being pulled into the case, Yes. However my rad is against the air filter and my fans are on the other side. I believe that is incorrect installation but i just couldnt be bothered to do it the other way at the time of installation. Works great though.

There is no incorrect installation if it works. I have the exact set-up you have but my fans are on the other side of the rad. My cooling is great and so is yours so either way it works. Under full load with my overclock I average 55 degrees. Idle I average 33 degrees.

 

[Deniedstingray]

I have the elite version of that case and i have it setup to pull air into the case. Reason being, the case comes with two exhaust fans already so if you have your rad pulling air into the case it is the perfect setup.

By pulling you mean fans on the inner side of the radiator pulling air through it rather then pushing air through it from the outer side?

Air is being pulled into the case, Yes. However my rad is against the air filter and my fans are on the other side. I believe that is incorrect installation but i just couldnt be bothered to do it the other way at the time of installation. Works great though.

There is no incorrect installation if it works. I have the exact set-up you have but my fans are on the other side of the rad. My cooling is great and so is yours so either way it works. Under full load with my overclock I average 55 degrees. Idle I average 33 degrees.

Just switched it around. Took me 25 mins, sorry for slow reply. I didnt realize it was even possible until a couple hours ago to be honest. I didnt think screws would reach. They did and it looks a lot better now.

I get 27-32C just browsing firefox for example.

I think 47C is the highest ive seen.

Ive got an i5-4690k @4.4Ghz 1.295V (I have the worst 4690k chip ive ever seen)

 

[BigBen1996]

I have the elite version of that case and i have it setup to pull air into the case. Reason being, the case comes with two exhaust fans already so if you have your rad pulling air into the case it is the perfect setup.

By pulling you mean fans on the inner side of the radiator pulling air through it rather then pushing air through it from the outer side?

Air is being pulled into the case, Yes. However my rad is against the air filter and my fans are on the other side. I believe that is incorrect installation but i just couldnt be bothered to do it the other way at the time of installation. Works great though.

There is no incorrect installation if it works. I have the exact set-up you have but my fans are on the other side of the rad. My cooling is great and so is yours so either way it works. Under full load with my overclock I average 55 degrees. Idle I average 33 degrees.

Just switched it around. Took me 25 mins, sorry for slow reply. I didnt realize it was even possible until a couple hours ago to be honest. I didnt think screws would reach. They did and it looks a lot better now.

I get 27-32C just browsing firefox for example.

I think 47C is the highest ive seen.

Ive got an i5-4690k @4.4Ghz 1.295V (I have the worst 4690k chip ive ever seen)

I got very lucky with my non-k processor to be able to push this much lol. and I'm at 1.43V skylakes can handle up to 1.55 according to intel so it makes me feel safer.

 

[Deniedstingray]

I have the elite version of that case and i have it setup to pull air into the case. Reason being, the case comes with two exhaust fans already so if you have your rad pulling air into the case it is the perfect setup.

By pulling you mean fans on the inner side of the radiator pulling air through it rather then pushing air through it from the outer side?

Air is being pulled into the case, Yes. However my rad is against the air filter and my fans are on the other side. I believe that is incorrect installation but i just couldnt be bothered to do it the other way at the time of installation. Works great though.

There is no incorrect installation if it works. I have the exact set-up you have but my fans are on the other side of the rad. My cooling is great and so is yours so either way it works. Under full load with my overclock I average 55 degrees. Idle I average 33 degrees.

Just switched it around. Took me 25 mins, sorry for slow reply. I didnt realize it was even possible until a couple hours ago to be honest. I didnt think screws would reach. They did and it looks a lot better now.

I get 27-32C just browsing firefox for example.

I think 47C is the highest ive seen.

Ive got an i5-4690k @4.4Ghz 1.295V (I have the worst 4690k chip ive ever seen)

I got very lucky with my non-k processor to be able to push this much lol. and I'm at 1.43V skylakes can handle up to 1.55 according to intel so it makes me feel safer.

Yeah that is pretty crazy. Didnt know numbers like that were even possible on non-k.

 

[BigBen1996]

I have the elite version of that case and i have it setup to pull air into the case. Reason being, the case comes with two exhaust fans already so if you have your rad pulling air into the case it is the perfect setup.

By pulling you mean fans on the inner side of the radiator pulling air through it rather then pushing air through it from the outer side?

Air is being pulled into the case, Yes. However my rad is against the air filter and my fans are on the other side. I believe that is incorrect installation but i just couldnt be bothered to do it the other way at the time of installation. Works great though.

There is no incorrect installation if it works. I have the exact set-up you have but my fans are on the other side of the rad. My cooling is great and so is yours so either way it works. Under full load with my overclock I average 55 degrees. Idle I average 33 degrees.

Just switched it around. Took me 25 mins, sorry for slow reply. I didnt realize it was even possible until a couple hours ago to be honest. I didnt think screws would reach. They did and it looks a lot better now.

I get 27-32C just browsing firefox for example.

I think 47C is the highest ive seen.

Ive got an i5-4690k @4.4Ghz 1.295V (I have the worst 4690k chip ive ever seen)

I got very lucky with my non-k processor to be able to push this much lol. and I'm at 1.43V skylakes can handle up to 1.55 according to intel so it makes me feel safer.

Yeah that is pretty crazy. Didnt know numbers like that were even possible on non-k.

Bench scores hit higher then stock i7-6700k and beats the 7700k in single core but it got me in multicore. So I'm happy with it

 

[Guest]

A pull configuration mean less dust on the radiator, and more air flowing pulled out threw it, that being pushed out threw it. Linustectips clearly reccomends a pull configuration.

 

[BigBen1996]

A pull configuration mean less dust on the radiator, and more air flowing pulled out threw it, that being pushed out threw it. Linustectips clearly reccomends a pull configuration.

But he didn't have a vent where it was pulling air from. Look at the case in the link.

 

[Guest]

Just saying. I just told him an answer to the pull vs push.

 

[carlosriosness]

what screw length do i need for a pull intake (or push exhuast). meaning, i want to mount the rad to the case, and the fan to the rad. the screws i have are long, they are meant to go through the fan and case into the rad.

i want to screw my rad to my case, directly. if i did that with my current screws they would pierce my rad fins.

i hope i make sense.

but it seems like the screw i need is the only screw not included with a rad or fan or pc case? am i wrong?

i know the thread on the h100i or most hybrid gpu AIO's is 6-32. jsut not sure how long of a screw i need?