Question Front mounted radiator

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liamwhalley20

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Is it okay to mount radiator in the front as intake? I can only mount it in the front of the case (I will be getting a new case in the future) but will it affect gpu and vrm temps massively or will it be alright? Gpu sits at around 56°c, the aio I am using is the maelstrom 240t on an i5 4670k that I am going to attempt to overclock, thanks in advance:)
 
Another Enermax Twister bearing fan 13 - 20 dBA 47.7-83 cfm 1000-1800rpm 100,000 hours. Only about 25 cfm behind the noctua, way quieter. Every 10 db(a) is twice as loud so 43 is about 4x louder than the enermax 120mm and 8 times louder than the enermax 140mm.

There are some noctuas with a lower rpm and dba but also lower cfm.

With the existing fans that are probably only 40cfm there is no temperature problem anyway.
 
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Just an update on how it's gone, new cpu and aio installed, had to fiddle around to make it fit but it worked a charm, now got cpu overclocked to 4.2 GHz across all 4 cores, temps sit at around 66°c when stress testing with prime95 26.6 and about 50°c when gaming on forza horizon 4 and gta 5 online, and gpu temps have risen by 2°c thus far so all in all I think it has definitely done the trick