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Don Dongington
Sep 27, 2005

#ideasboom
College Slice
Hey so cooling Q: I ordered a Coolermaster 360mm ARGB AIO (ML360R) assuming I could install it in the top of my Corsair Carbide 275R, but it turns out it only LOOKS like it can fit a 360 up there - and it'll only fit in the front. Crap.

So in turn, my plan of keeping the 2 140mm fans at the front as intake, and switching the rear fan to intake to cool the VRMs and create a positive pressure system while running the top radiator situation as exhaust are hosed, so I'm trying to figure out what to do next.

Context: I'm running a Ryzen 2600, which I intend to try to push to 4.1-4.2 all core, a GTX980 G1 Gaming (Windforce twin fan cooler not a blower) and I currently have 120s in the top and rear, 240s in the front with the stock cooling.

I don't really want to run the fans on the case side of the radiator in a push through set up, as I'd like to be able to actually see the ridiculous ARGB lightshow; and I'm not sure a suck-through setup would be that ideal either. I'm not all that keen on drawing hot air through the radiator and dumping it inside the case. Seems counter-intuitive. So I guess my question is, will running my top and rear fans as intake and the front radiator fans as exhaust totally suck for GPU temps, considering hot air rises and there will be nothing really feeding cool air directly to the GPU? Is this what other people who run stupidly large front mounted radiators do?

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