Corsair H80 Installation

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Ive just installed an H80 following the pics in the instal guide. Now if you mount the fans/rad on the back panel of your case, which in my case usually blows air out of the case, with two fans at the front of case taking air in, the Corsair instuction is to have the fans/rad taking air into the case also from the back. Surely in my situation it would be beter blowing hot air out?
Anyone else installed one of these...what you think?
 
most people do have front case fans sucking and back fans pushing out though. just find it weird how the H80 design says to have rear case fan ports sucking cool air in.
 
toxic said:
most people do have front case fans sucking and back fans pushing out though. just find it weird how the H80 design says to have rear case fan ports sucking cool air in.
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You get better CPU temps by sucking in outside air rather than cooling the CPU using case air.

Doesn't necessarily help the temps of everything else but cpu temps are what corsair is selling the product for.

Fit it however it suits your case.

I've got mine set up to use a front intake unlike 99% of other users so I don't need to worry about it :p
 
I've installed my H50 (top rear) with the fans blowing out, as I have two intake fans at the lower front of the case. Temps are good, but I have not tried it the way Corsair suggest, to see if it makes any difference.

Perhaps you could reverse your front intake fans to maintain the flow-through of air? I've considered doing that, but I wouldn't want to create seriously turbulent airflow (perhaps with dead spots) by having front and rear fans as intakes.

As has been mentioned, Corsair are only interested in the CPU cooling, and aren't worried about other heat sources, such as the GPU, chipsets, RAM, and HDD's. All of which might require airflow.
 
Corsair's own instalation video on their site says you can have it either way. All depends on whether you have good airflow coming in from the front/side already.

I might change mine round but don't fancy the idea of it sucking a load of dust in because there's no rear filter
 
As long as your case has good airflow set it to a exhaust fan on the back aless you can put it on the front but I doubt that? I have had my H50 set as a exhaust for years to great effect!! I also set up a mates H80 on a i5 2500k a couple of days ago on his new Haf X case and he was getting idle temps of 20c on low fan speed as a push and pull exhaust setup. Case airflow is important to keep! So ideally you need air coming in from the front/bottom/side and out through the top/back.
 
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