H100 Cooling

Jonj1 · 25 Apr 2016 at 16:07

Hi,

I am looking for some advice in regards to my H100, currently it is setup in the top of the case with fans set to exhaust.

However with the warmer weather on its way etc and the fact I have been pretty bored lately been looking to move the H100 around.

My current setup is a Corsair Air 540 case with 2 fans on the front pulling air in, 1 on the rear as the exhaust and the 2 H100 fans as exhaust. It all works well as it should.

What I am thinking is moving the H100 to the front and having its fan's pushing air through the rad, then the 2 fronts moving to the top as exhausts and the rear staying as an exhaust.

Anyone see any real problems with that? Maybe a slight internal temp increase perhaps but anything drastically wrong with it?

Cheers

hlennie · 25 Apr 2016 at 16:34

what are you cooling? may also increase graphic card/s temp

play more games not worth the bother but if u really like to tinker go for it should swallow an afternoon

Jonj1 · 25 Apr 2016 at 16:38

Its a non-overclocked i7-4790k.

Yes not really doing it for any particular need, as I said just because bored really.

Yes I was thinking about the graphics card, its a EVGA SSC GTX970.

I was mainly checking that I hadn't forgotten about anything, as don't want to move it all and then realise there was a reason they don't normally go at the front

hlennie · 25 Apr 2016 at 18:09

They can go where ever they can reach but with that graphics card already putting heat into the case I would leave it where it is.

Having your h100 at the front will warm the incoming air a little @ stock more so if overclocked leave it where it is overclock the 4790 and get better min FPS in games

hope you have overclocked that 970 as well

Aa83 · 25 Apr 2016 at 18:40

I'd say give it a go if you're bored, as long as you have the fans push or pull the air out of the front of the case. I'm not sure it would make any difference, but it'd be interesting to see if it would. I've got a thread going where I've got a 240mm AIO in the front of my Air 540 (I can't mount it at the top as it's cooling the GPU):

https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18727996

Although the general consensus is that hot air rises and you should be pushing hot air out of the top of the case, things seem to be getting cooled pretty well at the moment.