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looks over form

Th3D0n

Th3D0n

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just wondering who has the radiator on bottom of case as as a exhaust. i do at the minute for the Aesthetics and have it as a exhaust . the reason its a exhaust is i have TL lcd fans on it so offcouse i want to see the lcd screen on them

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do you think it there be much difference if i had it on top as an exhaust since hot air rises
 
If your temps are good and you like how it looks, that's all that matters. I can't imagine that a custom WC setup like that is struggling to keep your hardware cool.

I personally think the radiator would look better up top, but I'm also a lazy ******* and screw rebuilding the loop.
 
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"looks over form"

Paul's Hardware just did a video about form or function. I've never been about form; if it doesn't work, what's the point? I've done some terrible things to computers in the name of function going back to using zip ties to hold four 16 megabyte SIPPs together so that a server could have 64MB of RAM (this was when motherboards used rows of holes and ram boards had pins, the 16MB boards were double-sided so were really thick and so four of them side by side were way thicker than the space allowed by the rows of holes)

Early extreme cooling had machines with airvent ducting in them to get the coolest air straight to the heatsink. First watercooling used a Chevette heatercore and an Eheim pond pump. Looked awful but worked pretty well.

even now I use soft tubing because I'm a tinkerer and need the flexibility offered by soft tube. eg I recently temporarily removed top 240 and front 360 with pump/res attached and didn't detach any tubes or drain the loop.
 
Performance first aesthetics second for me
Back before see through side panels
And other panels now
We're a thing didn't matter about looks
Now because of aesthetics mainly its very expensive
To do a new loop from scratch
 
Gray2233 said:
If your temps are good and you like how it looks, that's all that matters. I can't imagine that a custom WC setup like that is struggling to keep your hardware cool.

I personally think the radiator would look better up top, but I'm also a lazy ******* and screw rebuilding the loop.
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max iv seen is 75c on the cpu gpu dosnt go much over 50c
the cpu gets hottest playing a cpu intensive game over running prime95 lol that may be the little bit of heat the gpu is putting in the loop ?
cpu gets just over 60c after 10 minutes ov prime95 (small FFTS)
 
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Th3D0n said:
how do you mean?
looks good tho
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Likely the GPU in the vertical position at the front of the case. It's a shame the riser cable can't be hidden as with that on display I think I'd rather have had the card in a more "normal" riser position in front of the motherboard motherboard. The build certainly makes a nice showpiece though!
 
Mcnumpty2323 said:
Performance first aesthetics second for me
Back before see through side panels
And other panels now
We're a thing didn't matter about looks
Now because of aesthetics mainly its very expensive
To do a new loop from scratch
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You can do performance with aesthetics in mind. My setup is more about practicality than anything, and cramming as much cooling into the space I have as is possible to avoid an obscenely large case (what I have now is already very big, and heavy), but I still think it looks alright. It's all subjective of course!
 
Parsley said:
Likely the GPU in the vertical position at the front of the case. It's a shame the riser cable can't be hidden as with that on display I think I'd rather have had the card in a more "normal" riser position in front of the motherboard motherboard. The build certainly makes a nice showpiece though!
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yeah i will be getting a bigger riser at some point not yet tho its a shame the rgb dose not work on the gpu block
 
I think my post got deleted because I used a link. But I was recommending the Lian Li TL LCD (Reverse). You can get them so you can keep the same fans but have them act as intakes and swap your top fans to exhaust, I think that may improve the cooling inside your case
 
novalis said:
I think my post got deleted because I used a link. But I was recommending the Lian Li TL LCD (Reverse). You can get them so you can keep the same fans but have them act as intakes and swap your top fans to exhaust, I think that may improve the cooling inside your case
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If you linked a competitor to ocuk product
Then yeah not allowed if ocuk sell the item
Since ocuk own the forum
Sometimes there's a grey area if you link a manufacturers Web page
If they aren't actually selling the product on their page
But it's best just to err on side of caution
 
Mcnumpty2323 said:
If you linked a competitor to ocuk product
Then yeah not allowed if ocuk sell the item
Since ocuk own the forum
Sometimes there's a grey area if you link a manufacturers Web page
If they aren't actually selling the product on their page
But it's best just to err on side of caution
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Thank you, I'm new here and just linked to the manufacturer's web page but as you said that may be a grey area. ocuk do indeed sell the item but I'm just not going to link any items at all to be safe :D
 
novalis said:
Thank you, I'm new here and just linked to the manufacturer's web page but as you said that may be a grey area. ocuk do indeed sell the item but I'm just not going to link any items at all to be safe :D
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You're welcome mate

If the items on ocuk site
Safest thing is link it from their site

Some moderators will just delete your post
Others might explain why not allowed
Or another might just hit you with
A 24 hour ban/jail

And welcome to the forums
 
I would say it's probably a very small compromise in performance but it's well worth it to get the look of you want IMHO
 
novalis said:
I think my post got deleted because I used a link. But I was recommending the Lian Li TL LCD (Reverse). You can get them so you can keep the same fans but have them act as intakes and swap your top fans to exhaust, I think that may improve the cooling inside your case
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the fans on the rad at the bottom are Lian Li TL LCD (Reverse)
 
novalis said:
Oh so if they're reverse fans are they not intake? i.e pulling air from the bottom based on your pic?
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no the top is intake and the bottom is outtake keeping the ram, vrms, and m.2 drives cool and keeping the warm air out of the case
 
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